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AP Psychology

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1. Memory for skills - including perceptual - motor - and cognitive skills required to complete tasks






2. A lengthy insight therapy that was developed by Freud and aims at uncovering conflicts and unconscious impulses through special techniques - including free association - dream analysis - and transference.






3. behaviorism; pioneer in operant conditioning; behavior is based on an organism's reinforcement history; worked with pigeons






4. Any event that increases the probability of a recurrence of the response that preceded it






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






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






7. A descriptive research method in which researchers study behavior in its natural context.






8. The variable in a controlled experiment that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable






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






10. Large band of white neural fibers that connects to to brain hemispheres and carries messages between them; myelinated; involved in intelligence - consciousness - and self-awareness; does it reach full maturity until 20s






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






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






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






14. Behavior pattern characterized by competitiveness - impatience - hostility - and constant efforts to do more in less time






15. 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.






16. Freud's third stage of personality development - from about age 4 through age 7 - during which children obtain gratification primarily from the genitals.






17. An interdisciplinary area of study that includes behavioral - neurological - and immune factors and their relationship to the development of disease






18. A state of mental discomfort arising from a discrepancy between two or more of a person's beliefs or between a person's beliefs and overt behavior.






19. Intelligence and development; discovered that first born and only children tend to have higher IQs than latter born children






20. The suppression of one bit of information by another






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






22. Information processing guided by pre-existing knowledge or expectations to construct perceptions






23. Expectation of the person conducting an experiment which may be affect the outcome






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






25. 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






26. Following a strong emotion - an opposing emotion counters the first emotion - lessening the experience of that emotion; on repeated occasions - the opposing emotion becomes stronger






27. A fixed - overly simple - sometimes incorrect idea about traits - attitudes - and behaviors of males or females






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






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






30. The negative response evoked when there is an inconsistency between a person's self-image as being free to choose and the person's realization that someone is trying to force him or her to choose a particular occurrence.






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






32. Process by which a person takes some action to manage - master - tolerate - or reduce environmental or internal demands that cause or might cause stress and that tax the individual's inner resources






33. Substance that can produce developmental malformations (birth defects) during the prenatal period






34. A procedure to inform participants about the true nature of an experiment after its completion






35. Language; his hypothesis is that language determines the way we think






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






37. Neuroscience/biopsychology; studied split brain patients






38. 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






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






40. Use of techniques and ideas from a variety of approaches






41. An unscientific system which pretends to discover psychological information that his means are unscientific or deliberately fraudulent






42. The second phase of the sexual response cycle - during which physical arousal continues to increase as the partners bodies prepare for orgasm






43. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe






44. Jung's theory of a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that are inherited ideas and images - called archetypes - are emotionally charged and rich in meaning and symbolism






45. Social Psychology; Helping behavior - personal responsibility; studied the effects of enhanced personal responsibility and helping behavior






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






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






48. The human need to fulfill one's potential






49. Glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream - which regulate body and behavioral processes






50. 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.