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AP Psychology

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1. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe






2. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion

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3. A period after firing when a neuron is returning to its normal polarize state and will only fire again if the incoming message open parentheses impulse) is stronger than usual; returning to arresting state






4. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.






5. Behaviorism; Law of Effect-relationship between behavior and consequence






6. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.






7. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores






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






9. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic






10. Sharpness of vision






11. A test designed to predict a person's future performance






12. Recurrence of an extinguished conditioned response - usually following a rest period






13. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval






14. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors






15. Study of the brain and nervous system; overlaps with psychobiology






16. Social psychology; focus on nonverbal communication - self-fulfilling prophecies; Studies: Pygmalion Effect-effect of teacher's expectations on students






17. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms






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






19. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body






20. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology






21. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus






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






23. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions






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






25. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions






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






27. Does research on how people function best with machines






28. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment






29. When a researcher's expectations unknowingly create a situation that affects the results






30. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.






31. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period






32. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.






33. 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






34. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance






35. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.






36. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth






37. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory






38. Establish the relationship between two variables






39. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'






40. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility






41. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.






42. 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.






43. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions






44. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender






45. Unexpected changes in the gene replication process that are not always evident in phenotype and create unusual and sometimes harmful characteristics of body or behavior






46. The tendency to recall information learned while in a particular physiological state most accurately when one is in that physiological state again






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






48. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent






49. The degree to which a condition or traits shared two or more individuals or groups






50. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception







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