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AP Psychology

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1. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






2. 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.






3. 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






4. False beliefs that are inconsistent with reality but are held in spite of evidence that disproves them.






5. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.






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






7. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data






8. 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






9. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.






10. The sense of hearing






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






12. A DNA segment on a chromosome that controls transmission of traits






13. The period during which the reproductive system matures; it begins with an increase in the production of sex hormones - which signals the end of childhood






14. Minimum difference between any two stimuli that person can detect 50% of the time






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

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16. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions






17. A person's belief about whether he or she can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior.






18. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light






19. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant






20. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.






21. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.






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






23. Chemical messengers released by terminal buttons into the synapse






24. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score






25. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.






26. The arithmetic average of a set of scores






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






28. The biologically based categories of male and female






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






30. Process by which several genes interact to produce a certain trait; responsible for most important traits






31. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes






32. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next






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






34. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.






35. Negative evaluation of an entire group of people - typically based on unfavorable (and often wrong) stereotypes about groups.






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






37. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be






38. Anxiety disorder characterized by irrational and persistent fear of a particular object or situation - along with a compelling desire to avoid it.






39. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series






40. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'






41. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues






42. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors






43. A treatment for severe mental illness in which an electric current is briefly applied to the head in order to produce a generalized seizure.






44. A state of being or feeling in which each person in a relationship is willing to self-disclose and to express important feelings and information to the other person.






45. Reflex that causes a newborn to grasp vigorously any object touching the palm or fingers or placed in the hand






46. Visual theory - proposed by Herring - that color is coded by stimulation of three types of paired receptors; each pair of receptors is assumed to operate in an antagonist way so that stimulation by a given wavelength produces excitation (increased fi






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






48. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.






49. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.






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