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AP Psychology

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1. A person's experiences in the environment






2. 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.






3. Defense mechanism by which anxiety-provoking thoughts and feelings are forced to the unconscious.






4. 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






5. In Freud's theory - the technique of providing a context - meaning - or cause for a specific idea - feeling - or set of behaviors; the process of tying a set of behaviors to its unconscious determinant.






6. Noradrenaline; chemical which is excitatory - similar to adrenaline - and affects arousal and memory; raises blood pressure by causing blood vessels to become constricted - but also carried by bloodstream to the anterior pituitary which relaxes ACTH






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






8. The realization of infants that objects continue to exist even when they are out of sight






9. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response






10. An eating disorder characterized by repeated episodes of binge eating (and a fear of not being able to stop eating) followed by purging






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






12. Pioneer in observational learning (AKA social learning) - stated that people profit from the mistakes/successes of others; Studies: Bobo Dolls-adults demonstrated 'appropriate' play with dolls - children mimicked play






13. Studies psychological development across the lifespan






14. Four distinct stages of sleep during which no rapid eye movements occur.






15. A donut ring-shaped of loosely connected structures located in the forebrain between the central core and cerebral hemispheres; consists of: septum - cingulate gyrus - endowments - hypothalamus - and to campus - and amygdala; associated with emotions






16. A cognitive distortion experienced by adolescents - in which they see themselves as always 'on stage' with an audience watching






17. Vermont railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that changed his personality and behavior; his accident gave information on the brain and which parts are involved with emotional reasoning






18. The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to dispositional causes but to attribute one's own behavior to situational causes.






19. Framework of basic ideas about people - objects and events based on past experience in long-term memory






20. In problem solving - the process of narrowing down choices and alternatives to arrive at a suitable answer.






21. Early-emerging and long-lasting individual differences in disposition and in the intensity and especially the quality of emotional reactions






22. Learned knowledge and skills such as vocabulary - which tends to increase with age






23. Sleep stage when the eyes move about - during which vivid dreams occur; brain very active but skeletal muscles paralyzed






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






25. The number of items a person can reproduce from short-term memory - usually consisting of one or two chunks






26. Learning; Positive Psychology; learned helplessness theory of depression; Studies: Dogs demonstrating learned helplessness






27. Defense mechanism by which people attribute their own undesirable traits to others.






28. 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






29. In Jung's theory - the emotionally charged ideas and images that are rich in meaning and symbolism and exist within the collective unconscious.






30. Type of schizophrenia characterized by severely disturbed thought processes - frequent incoherence - disorganized behavior - and inappropriate affect.






31. In the study of motivation - an explanation of behavior that asserts that people actively and regularly determine their own goals and the means of achieving them through thought.






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






33. Conscious experience of emnotion results from one's awareness of physiological arousal






34. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi






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






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






37. Three-stage process which describes the body's reaction to stress: 1) alarm reaction - 2) resistance - 3) exahaustion

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38. Cognition and memory; studied repressed memories and false memories; showed how easily memories could be changed and falsely created by techniques such as leading questions and illustrating the inaccuracy in eyewitness testimony






39. The space between two neurons where neurotransmitters are secreted by terminal buttons and received by dendrites






40. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life






41. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.






42. The biologically based categories of male and female






43. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal






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






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






46. The process of growth and the realization of individual potential; in the humanistic view - a final level of psychological development in which a person attempts to minimize ill health - be fully functioning - have a superior perception of reality -






47. Dividing the chromosomes into smaller fragments that can be characterized and ordered so that the fragments reflect their respective locations on specific chromosomes






48. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place






49. Inability to understand or use language






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