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AP Psychology

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1. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter






2. A nonspecific - emotional response to real or imagined challenges or threats; a result of a cognitive appraisal by the individual






3. The first phase of the sexual response cycle during which there are increases in heart rate blood pressure and respiration






4. Perspective developed by freud - which assumes that psychological problems are the result of anxiety resulting from unresolved conflicts and forces of which a person might be unaware






5. Main area for hearing - understanding language (Wernicke's area) - understanding music; smell






6. Sets of strategies - rather than strict rules - that act as guidelines for discovery-oriented problem solving.






7. A chart or array of scores - usually arranged from highest to lowest - showing the number of instances for each score






8. Personality theorist; asserted that personality is largely determined by genes - used introversion/extroversion






9. Behavior targeted at individuals or groups and intended to hold them apart and treat them differently.






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






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






12. Sense of smell






13. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.






14. Differential psychology AKA 'London School' of Experimental Psychology; Contributions: behavioral genetics - maintains that personality & ability depend almost entirely on genetic inheritance; compared identical & fraternal twins - hereditary differe






15. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.






16. A basic unit of meaning in a language.






17. Photoreceptors that detect color and fine detail in bright-light conditions; not present in peripheral vision






18. Psychologist who treats people with adjustment problems






19. 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






20. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed






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. A cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes the importance of logical - rational thought processes.






23. Heuristic procedure in which a problem is broken down into smaller steps - each of which has a subgoal.






24. Processes sensory information including touch - temperature - and pain from other body parts






25. Sleep/dreams/consciousness; pioneers of Activation-Synthesis Theory of dreams; sleep studies that indicate the brain creates dream states - not information processing or Freudian interpretations






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






27. Developmental psychology; wrote 'On Death and Dying': 5 stages the terminally ill go through when facing death (1. denial - 2. anger - 3. bargaining - 4. depression - 5. acceptance)






28. The scientific study of how people think about - interact with - influence - and are influenced by the thoughts - feelings - and behaviors of other people.






29. A therapy that is based on the application of learning principles to human behavior and that focuses on changing overt behaviors rather than on understanding subjective feelings - unconscious processes - or motivations; also known as behavior modific






30. Reproductive glands-male - testes; female - ovaries






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






32. 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






33. Neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; dream studies/interpretation






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






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

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36. Cognition; studied rats and discovered the 'cognitive map' in rats and humans






37. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.






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






39. Mental category used to classify an event or object according to some distinguishing property or feature.






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






41. Shows brain activity when radioactively tagged glucose rushes to active neurons






42. A branch of the autonomic nervous system and prepares the body for quick action in emergencies; 'fight or flight'






43. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.






44. 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






45. The most primitive of the three functional divisions of the brain - consisting of the pons - medulla - reticular formation - and cerebellum






46. The scores and corresponding percentile ranks of a large and representative sample of individuals from the population for which a test was designed






47. Interpersonal psychoanalysis; groundwork for enmeshed relationships - developed the Self-System - a configuration of personality traits






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






49. Language development; disagreed with Skinner about language acquisition - stated there is an infinite # of sentences in a language - humans have an inborn native ability to develop language






50. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.







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