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AP Psychology

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1. All of the individuals in the group to which a study applies






2. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.






3. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.






4. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law






5. The small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye.






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






7. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.






8. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.






9. A drug that increases alertness - reduces fatigue - and elevates mood






10. Establish the relationship between two variables






11. Transparent covering of the eye






12. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series






13. Seeing mind and body as different aspects of the same thing






14. Shift in electrical charge in a tiny area of the neuron (temporary); transmits a long cell membranes leaving neuron and polarized state; needs higher than normal threshold of excitation to fire






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

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






17. 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






18. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned






19. Piaget's second stage of cognitive development (lasting from about age 2 to age 6 or 7) - during which the child begins to represent the world symbolically






20. Sleep researcher who discovered and coined the phrase 'rapid eye movement' (REM) sleep.






21. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score






22. Inherited - automatic species-specific behaviors






23. Small opeing in iris that is smaller in bright light and larger in darkness






24. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross






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






26. Memory for specific information






27. The process of maintaining or keeping information readily available; the locations where information is held






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






29. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival






30. Sense of smell






31. The quality of a sound determined by the purity of a waveform






32. A type of design that contrasts groups of people who differ on some variable of interest to the researcher.






33. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data






34. Behaviors followed by pleasant consequences are strengthened while behaviors followed by unpleasant consequences are weakened (Thorndike)






35. Development - contact comfort - attachment; experimented with baby rhesus monkeys and presented them with cloth or wire 'mothers;' showed that the monkeys became attached to the cloth mothers because of contact comfort






36. Devised theory of multiple intelligences: logical-mathematic - spatial - bodily-kinesthetic - intrapersonal - linguistic - musical - interpersonal - naturalistic






37. Applies psychological concepts to legal issues






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






39. Studies of hereditability it be a behavioral traits using animals that have been inbred to produce strains that are genetically similar to one another






40. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants






41. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement






42. 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






43. 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.






44. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they believe they are so special and unique that other people cannot understand them and risky behaviors will not harm them






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






46. Professional who studies behavior and uses behavioral principles in scientific research or in applied settings






47. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome






48. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information






49. Impairment of mental functioning and global cognitive abilities in otherwise alert individuals - causing memory loss and related symptoms and typically having a progressive nature






50. Located in left temporal lobe; plays role in understanding language and making meaningful sentences

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