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AP Psychology

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1. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.






2. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)






3. Located in neck; regulates metabolism by secreting thyroxine






4. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.






5. A tentative statement or idea expressing a causal relationship between two events or variables that is to be evaluated in a research study






6. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.






7. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain






8. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.






9. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience






10. Sense of smell






11. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)






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






13. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits






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






15. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.






16. Assessing and choosing among alternatives.






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






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






19. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative






20. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons






21. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.






22. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data






23. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about






24. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series






25. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes






26. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.






27. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






28. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli






29. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe






30. An observable action






31. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease






32. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment






33. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm






34. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language






35. 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.






36. Growth in the ability to tell right from wrong - control impulses - and act ethically






37. The process by which a person uses behavior and appearance of others to form attitudes about them.






38. Process of repeatedly verbalizing - thinking about - or otherwise acting on or transforming information in order to keep that information active in memory






39. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments






40. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another






41. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall






42. Freud's first stage of personality development - from birth to about age 2 - during which the instincts of infants are focused on the mouth as the primary pleasure center.






43. Patterns of feelings and beliefs about other people - ideas - or objects that are based on a person's past experiences - shape his or her future behavior - and are evaluative in nature.






44. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking






45. The third phase of the sexual response cycle - during which autonomic nervous system activity reaches its peak and muscle contractions occur in spasms throughout the body - but especially in the genital area






46. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher






47. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary






48. Focuses on psychological factors in illness






49. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.






50. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.







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