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AP Psychology

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1. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.






2. An aroused condition that directs people to behave in ways that allow them to feel good about themselves and others and to establish and maintain relationships






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






4. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.






5. Psychoanalytic phenomenon in which a therapist becomes the object of a patient's emotional attitudes about an important person in the patient's life - such as a parent.






6. Learning; systematic desensitization






7. 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






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






9. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.






10. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact






11. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior






12. Focuses on methods of acquiring and analyzing data






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






14. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea






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






16. Commonly occurring behavior can reinforce a less frequent behavior






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






18. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed






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






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

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21. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons






22. Ancient Greek philosopher. Wrote 'Peri Psyches' ('About the Mind').






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






24. Having both stereotypically male and stereotypically female characteristics






25. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes






26. Able to see clearly things that are close but having trouble seeing objects at a distance; nearsighted.






27. Assesses and counsels students - consults with educators and parents - and performs behavioral intervention when necessary






28. Way of getting knowledge about the world based on observation






29. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.






30. In problem solving - the process of widening the range of possibilities and expanding the options for solutions.






31. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.






32. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit






33. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream






34. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma






35. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal






36. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait






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






38. Approximate distribution of scores expected when a sample is taken from a large population - drawn as a frequency polygon that often takes the form of a bell-shaped curve - called the normal curve






39. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing






40. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved






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






42. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines






43. Conscious memory that a person is aware of






44. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness






45. Previously learned information interferes with the ability to learn new information






46. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held






47. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat






48. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system






49. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals






50. 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