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AP Psychology

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






2. Focuses on how the individual's behavior and mental processes are affected by interactions with other people






3. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched






4. Railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the development of the understanding of the localization of brain function






5. Informing participants about the true nature of a experiment after its completion.






6. An unconscious way of reducing anxiety by distorting perceptions of reality.






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






8. Feelings of rivalry with the parent of the same sex and sexual desire for the parent of the other sex - occurring during the phallic stage and ultimately resolved through identification with the parent of the same sex.






9. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores






10. Electrically charged particles found both inside and outside a neuron; negative ions are found inside the cell membrane in a polarized neuron






11. Colored part of the eye that regulates size of pupil






12. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'






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






14. Any of a class of drugs that relax and calm a user and - in higher doses - induce sleep; also known as a depressant






15. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe






16. In Freud's theory - the moral aspect of mental functioning comprising the ego ideal (what a person would ideally like to be) and the conscience and taught by parents and society.






17. 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






18. A type of research design that compares individuals of different ages to determine how they differ on an important dimension






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






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






21. Synaptic gap or synaptic space; tiny gap between the terminal of one neuron and the dendrites of another neuron (almost never touch); location of the transfer of an impulse from one neuron to the next






22. Perspective that seeks to explain and predict behaviors by analyzing how the human brain developed over time - how it functions - and how input from the environment affects human behaviors






23. Personality; theory that linked personality to physique on the grounds that both are governed by genetic endowment: endomorphic (large) - mesomorphic (average) - and ectomorphic (skinny)






24. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age






25. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8






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






27. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions






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






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






30. Efferent neurons; neurons that carry messages from spinal cord/brain to muscles and glands






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






32. 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.






33. 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






34. A test designed to predict a person's future performance






35. A return to a prior stage after a person has progressed through the various stages of development; caused by anxiety.






36. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems






37. Conscious memory that a person is aware of






38. Part of the brain which controls living functions such as breathing - heart rate - blood pressure - body temperature






39. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia






40. 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






41. Achievement motivation; developed scoring system for TAT's use in assessing achievement motivation






42. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.






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






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






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






46. The appearance of one overt symptom to replace another that has been eliminated by treatment.






47. Primary motor cortex; areas of the three boat cortex for response messages from the brain to the muscles and glands






48. A person's experiences in the environment






49. Rules of proper and acceptable conduct that investigators use to guide psychological research






50. People who cannot perceive any color - usually because their retinas lack cones.