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AP Psychology

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1. The middle division of brain responsible for hearing and sight; location where pain is registered; includes temporal lobe - occipital lobe - and most of the parietal lobe






2. Group of abnormalities that occur in the babies of mothers who drink alcoholic beverages during pregnancy






3. Behavior that benefits someone else or society but that generally offers no obvious benefit to the person performing it and may even involve some personal risk or sacrifice.






4. A person's description and analysis of what he or she is thinking and feeling or what he or she has just thought about






5. 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






6. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.






7. Branch of mathematics that deals with collecting - classifying - and analyzing data






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






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






10. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






11. 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






12. 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.






13. Describes differences between groups of participants that differ naturally on a variable such as race or gender






14. When the neuron is at rest; condition of neuron when the inside of the neuron is negatively charged relative to the outside of Enron; is necessary to generate the neuron signal in release of this polarization






15. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)






16. Study of how traits are transmitted from one generation to the next






17. Study of hereditary influences and how it influences behavior and thinking






18. School of psychological thought that argued that behavior cannot be studied in parts but must be viewed a s whole






19. Perspective that focuses on the mental processes involved in perception - learning - memory - and thinking






20. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma






21. The more accurate recall of items presented at the beginning of a series






22. A person who overuses and relies on drugs to deal with everyday life






23. A drug that alters behavior - thought - or perception by altering biochemical reactions in the nervous system - thereby affecting consciousness






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






25. Compliance with the orders of another person or group of people.






26. 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






27. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond






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






29. The suppression of one bit of information by another






30. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'






31. Established an intelligence test especially for adults (WAIS); also WISC and WPPSI






32. In humanistic theory - the final level of psychological development - in which one strives to realize one's uniquely human potential-to achieve everything one is capable of achieving






33. Freud's last stage of personality development - from the onset of puberty through adulthood - during which the sexual conflicts of childhood resurface (at puberty) and are often resolved during adolescence).






34. Level of consciousness that includes unacceptable feelings - wishes - and thoughts not directly available to conscious awareness






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






36. Part of the brain that coordinates balance - movement - reflexes






37. Drugs derived from the opium poppy - including opium - morphine - and heroin






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






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






40. Preset natural body weight - determined by the number of fat cells in the body






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






42. Defense mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate.






43. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior






44. Anything that causes a difference between the IV and the DV other than the independent variable






45. 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






46. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.






47. Automatic behavior that occurs involuntarily in response to a stimulus and without prior learning and usually shows little variability from instance to instance






48. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech

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






50. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.