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AP Psychology

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1. Freud's level of mental life that consists of those experiences that we are aware of at any given time.






2. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'






3. Establish the relationship between two variables






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






5. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi






6. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data






7. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society






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






9. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness






10. Motivation; human sexual response—studied how both men and women respond to and in relation to sexual behavior






11. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions






12. Part of the brain involved in sleep/wake cycles; also connects cerebellum and medulla to the cerebral cortex






13. 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






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






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






16. Shows brain's electrical activity by positioning electrodes over the scalp






17. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes






18. Freud's second stage of personality development - from about age 2 to about age 3 - during which children learn to control the immediate gratification they obtain through defecation and to become responsive to the demands of society.






19. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision






20. The structures and organs that facilitate electrical and chemical communication in the body and allow all behavior and mental processes to take place






21. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion






22. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.






23. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints






24. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.






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






26. A schizophrenic disorder in which the person exhibits inappropriate affect - illogical thinking - and/or eccentric behavior but seems generally in touch with reality.






27. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids






28. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.






29. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected






30. 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






31. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.






32. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.






33. Motivation; believed that gastric activity as in empty stomach - was the sole basis for hunger; did research that inserted balloons in stomachs






34. The most important area of the brain's occipital lobe - which receives and further processes information from the lateral geniculate nucleus; also known as the striate cortex.






35. The human need to fulfill one's potential






36. Light-sensitive surface on back of eye containing rods and cones






37. People who can distinguish only two of the three basic colors.






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






39. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment






40. Any therapy that attempts to discover relationships between unconscious motivations and current abnormal behavior.






41. Two or more individuals who are working with a common purpose or have some common goals - characteristics - or interests.






42. Observing and recording behavior naturally without trying to manipulate and control the situation






43. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience






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






45. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary






46. Any neutral stimulus that initially has no intrinsic value for an organism but that becomes rewarding when linked with a primary reinforcer






47. 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






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






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






50. 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.