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AP Psychology

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1. An operant conditioning procedure in which individuals who display appropriate behavior receive tokens that they can exchange for desirable items or activities.






2. A system of learned attitudes about social practices - instituations - and individual behavior used to evaluate situations and behavior as right or wrong - good or bad






3. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus






4. In Freud's theory - the source of a person's instinctual energy - which works mainly on the pleasure principle.






5. Consciousness-altering drugs that affect moods - thoughts - memory - judgment - and perception and that are consumed for the purpose of producing those results






6. Focuses on psychological factors in illness






7. Area of the brain that is part of the limbic system and regulates behaviors such as - eating - drinking - sexual behaviors - motivation; also body temperature






8. Endocrine gland that produces a large amount of hormones; it regulates growth and helps control other endocrine glands; located on underside of brain; sometimes called the 'master gland'






9. Learning that occurs in the absence of direct reinforcement and that is not necessarily demonstrated through observable behavior






10. The treatment of emotional or behavior problems through psychological techniques.






11. The ability to perceive - express - understand - and regulate emotions






12. Bundles of axons






13. A subjective response - usually accompanied by a physiological change - which is interpreted n a particular way by the individual and often leads to a change in behavior






14. Response to the belief that the IV will have an effect - rather than the IV's actual effect - which can be a confounding variable






15. Inability to perceive a situation or event except in relation to oneself; also know as self-centeredness






16. Developmental psychology;: social development & processing - effects of appearance on behavior - origin of social stereotypes - sex/love/intimacy - facial expression






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






18. A situation in which an individual is given two different and inconsistent messages.






19. Conscious memory that a person is aware of






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






21. An analogy or a perspective that uses a structure from one field to help scientists describe data in another field






22. Heuristic procedure in which the problem solver compares the current situation with the desired goal to determine the most efficient way to get from one to the other.






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






24. An internal aroused condition that directs an organism to satisfy a physiological need






25. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.






26. Subject in John Watson's experiment - proved classical conditioning principles - especially the generalization of fear






27. Any readily identifiable stable quality that characterizes how an individual differs from other individuals.






28. Deoxyribonucleic acid; genetic formation in a double-helix; can replicate or reproduce itself; made of genes






29. Removal of a stimulus after a particular response to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






30. A medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders






31. Behavior characterized as atypical - socially unacceptable - distressing to the individual or others - maladaptive - and/or the result of distorted cognitions






32. Unwillingness to help exhibited by witnesses to an event - which increase when there are more observers.






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






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






35. Period of development from conception until birth






36. The biochemical processes that make it easier for the neuron to respond again when it has been stimulated






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






38. Expectations of an observer which may distort an authentic observation






39. An individual who takes part in an experiment and whose behavior is observed as part of the data collection process






40. One of the descriptive methods of research; it requires construction of a set of questions to administer to a group of participants






41. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light






42. Reflex in which a newborn strectches out the arms and legs and cries in response to a loud noise or an abrupt change in the environment






43. 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






44. Area on retina with no receptor cells (where optic nerve leaves the eye)






45. Anxiety disorder characterized by fear of - and desire to avoid - situations in which the person might be exposed to scrutiny by others and might behave in an embarrassing or humiliating way.






46. Pioneer in Cognitive Therapy. Suggested negative beliefs cause depression.






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






48. The agreement of participants to take part in an experiment and their acknowledgement that they understand the nature of their participation in the research - and have been fully informed about the general nature of the research - its goals - and met






49. The emotional state or condition that arises when a person must choose between two or more competing motives - behaviors - or impulses






50. A need or want that causes someone to act