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AP Psychology

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1. Eating disorder most common in adolescent females characterized by weight less than 85% of normal - restricted eating - and unrealistic body image






2. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles






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






4. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement






5. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience






6. A location on a receptor neurons which is like a key to a lock (with a specific nerve transmitter); allows for orderly pathways






7. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell






8. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific






9. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking






10. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal






11. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual






12. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically






13. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene






14. Typically a pill that is used as a control in the experiment; a sugar pill






15. 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






16. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research






17. Organ lying between the stomach and small intestine; regulates blood sugar by secreting to regulating hormones insulin and glucagon






18. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment






19. Conflict that results from having to choose between two distasteful alternatives






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






21. Freud's level of the mind that contains those experiences that are not currently conscious but may become so with varying degrees of difficulty.






22. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks






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






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






25. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.






26. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors






27. Ability of the brain to change their experience - both structurally and chemically






28. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list






29. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.






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






31. Loss of memory for events and experiences occurring from the time of an amnesia-causing event forward






32. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series






33. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.






34. Learning; systematic desensitization






35. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation






36. Bundles of axons






37. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed






38. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in






39. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words






40. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants






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






42. 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)






43. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'






44. Theory suggesting that there are two routes to attitude change: the central route - which focuses on thoughtful consideration of an argument for change - and the peripheral route - which focuses on less careful - more emotional - and even superficial






45. Depth cues that are based on two eyes






46. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them






47. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion






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






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

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50. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.