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AP Psychology

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1. Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and longstanding maladaptive behaviors that typically cause stress and/or social or occupational problems.






2. Cell that send messages from brain and spinal cord to other parts of body; also called motor neurons






3. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior






4. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1






5. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent






6. Developed one of the first projective tests - the Inkblot test which consists of 10 standardized inkblots where the subject tells a story - the observer then derives aspects of the personality from the subject's commentary






7. Revised Binet's IQ test and established norms for American children; tested group of young geniuses and followed in a longitudinal study that lasted beyond his own lifetime to show that high IQ does not necessarily lead to wonderful things in life






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






9. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth






10. Obedience to authority; had participants administer what they believed were dangerous electrical shocks to other participants; wanted to see if Germans were an aberration or if all people were capable of committing evil actions






11. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems






12. Top of the spinal column






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






14. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population






15. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement






16. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics






17. Retrieval cues that match original information work better






18. A basic or minimum unit of sound in a language.






19. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them






20. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure






21. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age






22. 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






23. Branching extensions of neuron that receives messages from neighboring neurons






24. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a predetermined but variable number of responses has occurred






25. Stress and coping; used 'social readjustment scale' to measure stress






26. Adrenaline; activates a sympathetic nervous system by making the heart beat faster - stopping digestion - enlarging pupils - sending sugar into the bloodstream - preparing a blood clot faster






27. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.






28. A branch of the autonomic nervous system that maintains normal body functions; it calms the body after sympathetic stimulation






29. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience






30. Cognitive abilities requiring speed or rapid learning that tends to diminish with age






31. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH






32. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands






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

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






35. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad






36. 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






37. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample






38. In the sexual response cycle - engorgement of the blood vessels - particularly in the genital area - due to increased blood flow






39. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance






40. People's tendency to change attitudes or behaviors so that they are consistent with those of other people or with social norms.






41. 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






42. The spread between the highest and the lowest scores in a distribution






43. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands






44. In Freud's theory - the part of personality that seeks to satisfy instinctual needs in accordance with reality.






45. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic negative value for an organism but acquires punishing qualities when linked with a primary punisher






46. The process by which the location of sound is determined






47. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches






48. 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.






49. Manageable and meaningful units of information organized in such a way that it can be easily encoded - stored - and retrieved






50. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship