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AP Psychology

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1. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions






2. Defense mechanism by which people refuse to accept reality.






3. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.






4. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment






5. Memory of ideas - rules - words - and general concepts about the world






6. Sharpness of vision






7. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics






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






9. The lightness or darkness of reflected light - determined in large part by the light's intensity.






10. The purposeful process by which a person generates logical and coherent ideas - evaluates situations - and reaches conclusions.






11. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation






12. Shifts or exaggeration in group members' attitudes or behavior as a result of group discussion.






13. Psychotherapeutic process in which several people meet as a group with a therapist to receive psychological help.






14. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities






15. The study of the psychological and medical aspects of death and dying






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






17. Netlike system of neurons that weaves through limbic system and plays an important role in attention - arousal - and alert functions; arouses and alerts higher parts of the brain; anesthetics work by temporary shutting off RF system






18. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place






19. Body sense of equilibrium and balance






20. 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.






21. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations






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






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






24. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.






25. 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






26. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight






27. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)






28. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.






29. Piaget's fourth and final stage of cognitive development (beginning at about age 12) - during which the individual can think hypothetically - can consider future possibilites - and can use deductive logic






30. Freud's fourth stage of personality development - from about age 7 until puberty - during which sexual urges are inactive.






31. Pioneer in intelligence (IQ) tests - designed a test to identify slow learners in need of help-not applicable in the U.S. because it was too culture-bound (French)






32. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response






33. Psychological disorders characterized by a sudden but temporary alteration in consciousness - identity - sensorimotor behavior - or memory






34. Process by which an organism learns to respond only to a specific stimulus and not to other stimuli






35. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.






36. Chemical that mimics or facilitates the actions of a neurotransmitter






37. The suppression of one bit of information by another






38. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it






39. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands






40. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence






41. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life






42. Behaviors that benefit other people and for which there is no discernable extrinsic reward - recognition - or appreciation.






43. Social cognition - cognitive dissonance; Study Basics: Studied and demonstrated cognitive dissonance






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






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






46. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal






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






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






49. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging






50. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship