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AP Psychology

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1. Social psychological theory that states that people attempt to maintain stable - consistent interpersonal relationships in which the ratio of member's contributions is balanced.






2. The measurement of public opinion through the use of sampling and questioning






3. 30 -000 genes needed to build a human






4. Psychoanalytic technique in which a person is asked to report to the therapist his or her thoughts and feelings as they occur - regardless of how trivial - illogical - or objectionable their content may appear.






5. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer






6. The deeper meaning of a dream - usually involving symbolism hidden meaning - and repressed or obscured ideas and wishes






7. A nonspecific improvement that occurs as a result of a person's expectations of change rather than as a direct result of any specific therapeutic treatment.






8. Studies as identical and rhetorical twins to determine relative influence of heredity and environment on human behavior






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






10. 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.






11. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines






12. Selection of a part of the population which mirrors the current demographics






13. Decrease in effort and productivity that occurs when an individual works in a group instead of alone.






14. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions






15. The prenatal organism from the 8th week after conception until birth






16. Process by which stored information is recovered from memory






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






18. In Roger's theory of personality - an inborn tendency directing people toward actualizing their essential nature and thus attaining their potential.






19. The tendency to attribute other people's behavior to dispositional (internal) causes rather than situational (external) causes.






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






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






22. A mechanism that prevents certain molecule from entering the brain but allows others to cross






23. 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






24. In an experiment - a difference that is unlikely to have occurred because of chance alone and is inferred to be most likely due to the systematic manipulations of variables by the researcher






25. Intelligence and learning - self-fulfilling prophecy; Study Basics: Researchers misled teachers into believing that certain students had higher IQs. Teachers changed own behaviors and effectively raised the IQ of the randomly chosen students






26. Robert Sternberg's theory that describes intelligence as having analytic - creative and practical dimensions






27. The behavior of individuals when confronted with a situation or task that requires insight or determination of some unknown elements.






28. Procedures used to draw conclusions about larger populations from small samples of data






29. Did work on short-term memory






30. The percentage of scores at or below a certain score






31. A mass of tissue that is attached to the wall f the uterus and connected to the developing fetus by the umbilical cord; it supplies nutrients and eliminates waste products






32. Motor sensory relay center for four of the five senses; and with a brain stem and composed of two egg-shaped structures; integrates in shades incoming sensory signals; Mnemonic-'don't smell the llamas because the llamas smell bad'






33. Named for its developer - B.F. Skinner - a box that contains a responding mechanism and a device capable of delivering a consequence to an animal in the box whenever it makes the desired response






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






35. Social psychology; German refugee who escaped Nazis - proved the democratic style of leadership is the most productive; studied effects of 3 leadership styles on children completing activities






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

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






38. Threadlike structure within the nucleus of cells that contain genes






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






40. Neo-Freudian - humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting 'Who am I?'






41. 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.






42. Preconceived notions of a person answering [a survey] which may alter the experiments purpose






43. Decreased responsiveness with repeated presentation of the same stimulus






44. A number that expresses the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables - ranging from -1 to +1






45. 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






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






47. The more accurate recall of items presented at the end of a series






48. Behavior pattern exhibited by people who are calmer - more patient - and less hurried than Type A individuals






49. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after predetermined but varying amounts of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once after each interval






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