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AP Psychology

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






2. Endocrine gland that produces melatonin that helps regulate sleep/wake cycle






3. A descriptive statistic that tells which result or score best represents an entire set of scores






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






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






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






7. Psychoanalytic technique in which a patient's dreams are described in detail and interpreted so as to provide insight into the individual's unconscious motivations.






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






9. Occurs when frightening - traumatic events are forgotten because people want to forget them






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






11. A score that expresses an individual's position relative to the mean - based on the standard deviation






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






13. A single long - fiber that carries outgoing messages to other neurons - muscles - or glands






14. Freud's level of mental life that consists of mental activities beyond people's normal awareness.






15. Developmental psychology; 'visual cliff' studies with infants






16. Motivation theory - drive reduction; maintained that the goal of all motivated behavior is the reduction or alleviation of a drive state - mechanism through which reinforcement operates






17. The use of a variety of techniques including concentration - restriction of incoming stimuli - and deep relaxation to produce a state of consciousness characterized by a sense of detachment.






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






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

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






21. An eating disorder characterized by an obstinate and willful refusal to eat - a distorted body image - and an intense fear of being fat






22. A highly detailed description of a single individual or a vent






23. Forcible sexual assault on an unwilling partner.






24. The measure of central tendency that is the data point with 50% of the scores above it and 50% below it






25. Concerned with the relationship between brain/nervous system and behavior






26. Intelligence: fluid & crystal intelligence; personality testing: 16 Personality Factors (16PF personality test)






27. An abstraction - an idealized pattern of an object or idea that is stored in memory and used to decide whether similar objects or ideas are members of the same class of items.






28. A system of symbols - usually words - that convey meaning and a set of rules for combining symbols to generate an infinite number of messages.






29. The psychological property of light referred to as color - determined by the wavelengths of reflected light.






30. 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






31. A chronic and progressive disorder of the brain that is the most common cause of degeneration dementia

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32. Observed group differences based on the era when people were born and grew up - exposing them to particular experiences that may affect the results of cross-sectional studies






33. Anxiety disorders characterized by excessive and irrational fear of - and consequent attempted avoidance of - specific objects or situations.






34. The ways people alter the attitudes or behaviors of others - either directly or indirectly.






35. Memory a person is not aware of possessing






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






37. Endocrine glands located above the kidney and secretes epinephrine and norepinephrine - which prepare the body for 'fight or flight'






38. Organizing sensory information so it can be processed by the nervous system






39. Relatively permanent change in an organism that occurs as a result of experiences in the environment






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






41. Temporarily holds current or recent information for immediate or short-term use; Information is maintained for 20-30 seconds while active processing (e.g. - rehearsal) takes place






42. A bell-shaped graphic representation of data showing what percentage of the population falls under each part of the curve






43. Subfield of psychology that focuses on the relationship between physical stimuli and people's conscious experiences of them.






44. Newly learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information






45. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place






46. 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






47. Researched taste aversion. Showed that when rats ate a novel substance before being nauseated by a drug or radiation - they developed a conditioned taste aversion for the substance.






48. Division of peripheral nervous system; controls voluntary actions






49. Process of evaluating individual differences among human beings by means of tests interviews - observations - and recordings of physiological.






50. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior