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AP Psychology

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






2. State with deep relaxation and heightened suggestibility






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






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






5. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior






6. Reflex that causes a newborn to turn the head toward a light touch on lips or cheek






7. The characteristic of requiring higher and higher doses of a drug to produce the same effect.






8. Reflex that causes a newborn to make sucking motions when a finger or nipple if placed in the mouth






9. Light sensitive cells (rods and cones) that convert light to electrochemical impulses






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






11. Emotion; stated that in order to experience emotions - a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it






12. An individual's genetic make-up






13. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response






14. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ






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






16. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed






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






18. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.






19. A state of consciousness that occurs during sleep - usually accompanied by vivid visual - tactile - or auditory imagery.






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






21. Type of schizophrenia characterized by hallucinations and delusions of persecution or grandeur (or both) - and sometimes irrational jealousy.






22. Moral development; presented boys moral dilemmas and studied their responses and reasoning processes in making moral decisions. Most famous moral dilemma is 'Heinz' who has an ill wife and cannot afford the medication. Should he steal the medication






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






24. Process of presenting an undesirable or noxious stimulus - or removing a desirable stimulus - to decrease the probability that a preceding response will recur






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






26. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s






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






28. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment






29. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -






30. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources






31. Performs initial encoding; provides brief storage; also called sensory register






32. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness






33. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing






34. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher






35. A fertilized egg






36. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students






37. Simultaneously analyzing different elements of sensory information - such as color - brightness - shape - etc.






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






39. The study of how language is acquired - perceived - understood - and produced.






40. A white - fatty covering of the axon which speeds transmission of message






41. The human need to fulfill one's potential






42. 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






43. Helps athletes improve their focus - increase motivation - and deal with anxiety and fear of failure






44. 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






45. The genetically determined proportion of a trait's variation among individuals in a population






46. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.






47. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume






48. The prenatal organism from the 5th through the 49th day after conception






49. Supportive cells of nervous system that guide growth of new neurons; forms myelin sheath; holds neuron in place; provides nourishment and removes waste






50. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play







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