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AP Psychology

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1. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks






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






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






4. A conceptual framework that organizes information and allows a person to make sense of the world






5. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance






6. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad






7. Control emotional behaviors - make decisions - carry out plans; speech (Broca's area); controls movement of muscles






8. Ends of axons that secrete neurotransmitters






9. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.






10. In psychology - the techniques used to discover knowledge about human behavior and mental processes






11. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism






12. The proportion of variation among individuals that is due to genetic causes






13. An individual's genetic make-up






14. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals






15. The second level of the three organizational structures of the brain that receives signals from other parts of the brain or spinal cord and either relays the information to other parts of the brain or causes the body to act immediately; involved in m






16. According to Piaget - the process by which new ideas and experiences are absorbed and incorporated into existing mental structures and behaviors






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






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






19. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself






20. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data






21. Storage mechanism that keeps a relatively permanent record of memory






22. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards






23. 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.






24. Loss of memory of events and experiences that preceded an amnesia-causing event






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






26. Study that focuses on biological foundations of behavior and mental processes; overlaps with neuroscience






27. A discipline based on the premise that even day-to-day behaviors are determined by the process of natural selection - that social behaviors that contribute to the survival of a species are passed on via the genes from one generation to the next.






28. Process of developing uniform procedures for administering and scoring a test and for establishing norms






29. A descriptive statistic that measures the variability of data from the mean of the sample






30. Point at which half of the optic nerve fibers from each eye cross over and connect to the other side of the brain.






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






32. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.






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






34. Response elicited by a conditioned stimulus






35. In Roger's theory of personality - the perception an individual has of himself or herself and of his or her relationships to other people and to various aspects of life.






36. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.






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






38. Conditioning process in which an originally neutral stimulus - by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response - comes to elicit a similar or even identical response; aka Pavlovian conditioning






39. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.






40. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants






41. The view that knowledge should be acquired through observation and often an experiment






42. The system of principles of reasoning used to reach valid conclusions or make inferences.






43. Technique in which neither the persons involved for those conducting the experiment know in what group to participate is involved






44. Selection of a part of the population without reason; participation is by chance






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






46. 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






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






48. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression






49. Stimulus that normally produces a measurable involuntary response






50. Graphical record of brain-wave activity obtained through electrodes placed on the scalp and forehead