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AP Psychology

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1. Physical - emotional - or sexual mistreatment of a child.






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






3. Period of development from conception until birth






4. An explanation of behavior that assumes that an organism is motivated to act because of a need to attain - reestablish - or maintain some goal that helps with survival






5. Structuralism; in 1879 founded first psychology laboratory in world at University of Leipzig; introspection - basic units of experience






6. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma






7. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer






8. A schizophrenic disorder that is characterized by a mixture of symptoms and does not meet the diagnostic criteria of any one type.






9. The extent to which scores differ from one another






10. Approach to attitude formation that assumes that people infer their attitudes and emotional states from their behavior.






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






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






13. Member of the gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait only if it is paired with the same gene






14. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus






15. Perception below the threshold of awareness.






16. Therapies that use approaches or techniques derived from Freud - but that reject or modify some elements of Freud's theory.






17. 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






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






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






20. A pattern of relatively permanent traits - dispositions - or characteristics that give some consistency to people's behavior.






21. Inability to remember information (typically - all events within a specific period) - usually due to physiological trauma






22. Ability to recognize that objects can e transformed in some way - visually or phycially - yet still be the same in number - weight - substance - or volume






23. Theory that suggests that organisms learn new responses by observing the behavior of a model and then imitating it; aka. Social learning theory






24. People whose corpus callosum has been surgically severed






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






26. Dissociative disorder characterized by the existence within an individual of two or more distinct personalities - each of which is dominant at different times and directs the individual's behavior at those times; commonly known as multiple personalit






27. 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






28. Perspective that defines psychology as the study of behavior that is directly observable or through assessment instruments






29. Information processing that begins at the sensory receptors and works up to perception






30. 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






31. Memory of specific personal events and situations (episodes) tagged with information about time






32. The creation of a situation that unintentionally allows personal expectancies to influence participants






33. Founder of functionalism; studied how humans use perception to function in our environment






34. Parenting style characterized by emotional warmth - high standards for behavior - explanation and consistent enforcement of rules - and inclusion of children in decision making






35. 17t century French philosopher. Famously known for writing 'cogito ergo sum' ('I think - therefore I am'). Wrote about concept of dualism.






36. The way words and groups of words combine to form phrases - clauses - and sentences.






37. 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.






38. The study of the lifelong - often age-related - processes of change in the physical - cognitive - moral - emotional - and social domains of functioning; such changes are rooted in biological mechanisms that are genetically controlled - as well as in






39. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.






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






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






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






43. Process of changing from a totally self-oriented point of view to one tha recognizes other people's feelings - ideas - and viewpoints






44. Rapid voluntary movements of the eyes.






45. After firing when a neuron will not fire again no matter how strong the incoming message may be






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






47. A collection of interrelated ideas and facts put forward to describe - explain - and predict behavior and mental processes






48. Internally generated patterns of body functions - including hormonal signals - sleep - blood pressure - and temperature regulation - which have approximately a 24-hour cycle and occur even in the absence of normal cues about whether it is day or nigh






49. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream






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