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AP Psychology

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1. The time in to development of an organism when it is especially sensitive to certain environmental influences; outside of that period the same influences will have far less effect






2. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time






3. A score indicating what percentage of the test population would obtain a lower score






4. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.






5. Sense of smell






6. The brain and spinal cord






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

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8. Behaviorism; emphasis on external behaviors of people and their reactions on a given situation; famous for Little Albert study in which baby was taught to fear a white rat






9. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.






10. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)






11. The expression of genes






12. Morality based on fitting in to the norms of society






13. Chemical secreted at terminal button that causes the neuron on the other side of the synapse to fire






14. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus






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






16. In an experiment - the group of participants to whom a treatment is given






17. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing






18. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature






19. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones






20. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.






21. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon






22. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.






23. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion






24. A standard IQ test score whose mean and standard deviation remain constant for all ages






25. 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






26. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development






27. Behaviorism/learning; pioneer in systematic desensitization - maintained that fear could be unlearned






28. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.






29. Anxiety disorder characterized by persistent and uncontrollable thoughts and irrational beliefs that cause the performance of compulsive rituals that interfere with daily life.






30. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.






31. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.






32. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.






33. 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.






34. In Roger's theory of personality - the self a person would ideally like to be.






35. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.






36. Cognitive psychology; created a 4-stage theory of cognitive development - said that two basic processes work in tandem to achieve cognitive growth (assimilation and accommodation)






37. The increase in sensitivity to light that occurs when the illumination level changes from high to low - causing chemicals in the rods and cones to regenerate and return to their inactive state.






38. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill






39. 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






40. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures






41. The folds in the cerebral cortex that increase the surface area of the brain






42. Occurs when initial processing of information is similar to the process of retrieval; the better the match - the better the recall






43. A person's inherited traits - determined by genetics






44. A group of participants who are assumed to be representative of the population about which an inference is being made






45. 'Wernicke's area'; discovered area of left temporal lobe that involved language understanding: person damaged in this area uses correct words but they do not make sense






46. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next






47. A need or want that causes someone to act






48. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people






49. Snail-shaped fluid-filled tube in the inner ear involved in transduction






50. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response






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