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AP Psychology

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1. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion






2. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts






3. The process by which a person infers other people's motives or intensions by observing their behavior.






4. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.






5. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable






6. Developmental psychology; compared effects of maternal separation - devised patterns of attachment; 'The Strange Situation': observation of parent/child attachment






7. Hormone backpacks in the regulation of blood sugar by acting in the utilization of carbohydrates; released by pancreas; too much-hypoglycemia - too little-diabetes






8. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia

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9. Our emotional experience depends on our interpretation of the situation we are in






10. A person's diminished ability to deal with demanding life events.






11. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony






12. Psychologist who treats people serious psychological problems or conducts research into the causes of behavior






13. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated






14. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome






15. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence






16. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m






17. Focuses on psychological factors in illness






18. Able to see objects at a distance clearly but having trouble seeing things up close; farsighted






19. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)






20. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences

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21. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort






22. The Reaction experienced when a substance abuser stops using a drug with dependence properties






23. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.






24. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






25. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)






26. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment






27. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.






28. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation






29. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.






30. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior






31. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field






32. A research method that focuses on a specific group of individuals at different ages to examine changes that have occurred over time






33. Wrinkled outer portion of brain; center for higher order brain functions such as thinking - planning - judgment; processes sensory information and directs movement






34. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.






35. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.






36. The first person to study memory scientifically and systematically; used nonsense syllables and recorded how many times he had to study a list to remember it well






37. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.






38. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series






39. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.






40. An anxiety disorder characterized by persistent anxiety occurring on more days than not for at least 6 months - sometimes with increased activity of the autonomic nervous system - apprehension - excessive muscle tension - and difficulty in concentrat






41. Perception below the threshold of awareness.






42. Any internal condition - although usually an internal one - that initates - activates - or maintains an organism's goal directed behavior






43. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.






44. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data






45. An understanding of mental states such as feelings - desires - beliefs - and intentions and of the causal role they play in human behavior






46. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer(reward) is delivered after a specified number of responses has occurred






47. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable






48. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.






49. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.






50. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.