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AP Psychology

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1. We determine our emotion based on our physiological arousal - then label that emotion according to our explanation for that arousal






2. Ethology (animal behavior); studied imprinting and critical periods in geese






3. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.






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






5. Humanistic psychology; Contributions: founded client-centered therapy - theory that emphasizes the unique quality of humans especially their freedom and potential for personal growth - unconditional positive regard -






6. Sense of taste






7. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






8. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature






9. Hormone that controls imbalances levels of calcium and phosphate in the blood and tissue fluid; influences levels of excitability; secreted by parathyroids






10. The variable in a controlled experiment that the experimenter directly and purposefully manipulates to see how the other variables under study will be affected






11. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness






12. Depressive disorder characterized by loss of interest in almost all of life's usual activities; a sad - hopeless - or discourage mood - sleep disturbance; loss of appetite; loss of energy; and feelings of unworthiness and guilt.






13. Conflict that results from having to choose an alternative that has both attractive and unappealing aspects






14. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.






15. Chemical that carries messages that travel through the bloodstream to help regulate bodily functions






16. 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






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






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






19. A socially and culturally constructed set of distinctions between masculine and feminine sets of behaviors that is promoted and expected by society






20. Process of reconditioning in which a person is taught a new - more adaptive response to a familiar stimulus.






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






22. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.






23. School of psychological thought that considered the structure and elements of conscious experience to be the proper subject matter of psychology






24. Seeing mind and body as two different things that interact






25. Mood disorder originally know as manic-depressive disorder because it is characterized by behavior that vacillates between two extremes; mania and depression.






26. Top of the brain which includes the thalamus - hypothalamus - and cerebral cortex; responsible for emotional regulation - complex thought - memory aspect of personality






27. Action potential; the firing of a nerve cell; the entire process of the electrical charge (message/impulse) traveling through inner on; can be as fast as 400 fps (with myelin) or 3 fps (no myelin)






28. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.






29. Ability of the visual perceptual system to recognize that an object remains constant in size regardless of its distance from the observer or the size of its image on the retina.






30. Intelligence; devised the Triarchic Theory of Intelligence (academic problem-solving - practical - and creative)






31. A research technique in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control and experimental groups.






32. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions






33. Chemical secreted at terminal button that prevents (or reduces ability of) the neuron on the other side of the synapse from firing






34. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think






35. Experience of the difference threshold






36. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment






37. Pain is only experienced in the pain messages can pass through a gate in the spinal cord on their route to the brain






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






39. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.






40. Constructed by Lewis Terman - originally used ratio IQ (MA/CA x 100); now based on deviation from mean






41. Brain encodes information in different ways or on different levels; deeper processing leads to deeper memory






42. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.






43. In Freud's theory - the instinctual (and sexual) life force that - working on the pleasure principle and seeking immediate gratification - energizes the id.






44. A condition or characteristic of a situation or a person that is subject to change (it varies) within or across situations or individuals






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






46. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters






47. People's tendency to ascribe their positive behaviors to their own internal traits - but their failures and shortcomings to external - situational factors.






48. Student of Wilhelm Wundt; founder of Structuralist school of psychology.






49. The range between the level at which a child can solve a problem working alone with difficulty - and the level at which a child can solve a problem with the assistance of adults or children with more skill






50. In Piaget's view - a specific mental structure; an organized way of interacting with the environment and experiencing it- a generalization a child makes based on comparable occurences of various actins - usally physical - motor actions