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AP Psychology

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1. The human need to fulfill one's potential






2. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.






3. 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






4. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus






5. Devices or instruments used to assess personality - in which examinees are shown a standard set of ambiguous stimuli and asked to respond to the stimuli in their own way.






6. A three-stage counterconditioning procedure in which people are taught to relax when confronting stimuli that forming elicited anxiety.






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






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






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






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






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






12. Practice of placing children with special needs in regular classroom settings - with the support of professionals who provide special education services






13. Twins from two separate fertilized eggs (zygotes); share half of the same genes






14. 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






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






16. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning






17. 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






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






19. A social need that directs a person to strive constantly for excellence and success






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






21. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands






22. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field






23. A specific (usually internal) condition - usually involving some form of arousal - which directs an organism's behavior toward a goal.






24. The process of changing a short-term memory to a long-term one






25. Statistical procedure designed to discover the independent elements (factors) in any set of data






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






27. Defense mechanism by which people reinterpret undesirable feelings or behaviors in terms that make them appear acceptable.






28. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.






29. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.






30. Stage of sleep characterized by high-frequency - low-amplitude brain-wave activity - rapid and systematic eye movements - more vivid dreams - and postural muscle paralysis






31. Detailed memory for events surrounding a dramatic event that is vivid and remembered with confidence






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






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






34. Defense mechanism by which people divert sexual or aggressive feelings for one person onto another person.






35. Type of schizophrenia characterized either by displays of excited or violent motor activity or by stupor.






36. Areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions - rather - they are involved in higher mental processes such as thinking - planning - and communicating






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






38. Creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through the brain






39. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes






40. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent






41. Social psychology; bystander apathy - diffusion of responsibility






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






43. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.






44. The genetically determined physical features that differentiate the sexes but are not directly involved with reproduction






45. Dissociative disorder characterized by the sudden and extensive inability to recall important personal information - usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.






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






47. A type of therapy in which two or more people who are committed to one another's well-being are treated at once - in and effort to change the ways the interact.






48. 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.






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






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