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AP Psychology

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1. The analysis of the meaning of language - especially of individual words.






2. Prejudice against the elderly and the resulting discrimination against them






3. Humanistic psychology; hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied; self-actualization - transcendence






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






5. The communication of information by cues or actions that include gestures - tone of voice - vocal inflections - and facial expressions.






6. People who can perceive all three primary colors and thus can distinguish any hue.






7. Heuristic procedure in which a problem solver works backward from the goal or end of a problem to the current position - in order to analyze the problem and reduce the steps needed to get from the current position to the goal.






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






9. An operant conditioning procedure in which a person is physically removed from sources of reinforcement to decrease the occurrence of undesired behaviors.






10. Studies psychological development across the lifespan






11. Portion of the CNS above the spinal cord; consists of hindbrain - midbrain - and forebrain






12. Inability to see that an object can have a function other than its stated or usual one.






13. Motivation that leads to behaviors engaged in for no apparent reward except the pleasure and satisfaction of the activity itself






14. Presentation of a stimulus after a particular response in order to increase the likelihood that the response will recur






15. The extent to which people are flexible and respond adaptively to external or internal demands






16. Areas of the retina that - when stimulated - produce a change in the firing of cells in the visual system.






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






18. The creation or re-creation of a mental picture of a sensory or perceptual experience






19. Creates a computerized image using a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves






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






21. An observable action






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






23. A reinforcement schedule in which a reinforcer (reward) is delivered after a specified interval of time - provided that the required response occurs at least once in the interval






24. 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






25. Systematic procedure through which associations and responses to specific stimuli are learned






26. The strong emotional tie that a person feels toward special other persons in his or her life






27. A test score that has not been transformed or converted in any way






28. The overall capacity of an individual to act purposefully - to think rationally - and to deal effectively with the environment






29. Universal Emotions (based upon facial expressions); Study Basics: Constants across culture in the face and emotion






30. In Jung's theory - a shared storehouse of primitive ideas and images that reside in the unconscious and are inherited from one's ancestors.






31. The process by which the probability of an organism's emitting a response is reduced when reinforcement no longer follows the response






32. A type of research method that allows researchers to measure variables so that they can develop a description of a situation or phenomenon






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






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






35. A feature of thought and problem solving that includes the tendency to generate or recognize ideas considered to be high-quality - original - novel - and appropriate.






36. Chemical that opposes the actions of a neurotransmitter






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






38. Clues participants discover about the purpose of a study that suggest how they should respond






39. 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.






40. Located in left frontal lobe; controls production of speech

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






42. Released by adrenal glands; triggered by norepinephrine to prolong the response to stress (used in the sympathetic nervous system)






43. Did study in which healthy patients were admitted to psychiatric hospitals and diagnoses with schizophrenia; showed that once you are diagnosed with a disorder - the label - even when behavior indicates otherwise - is hard to overcome in a mental hea






44. Style of parenting marked by emotional coldness - imposing rules and expecting obedience






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






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






47. Child development; investigated how culture & interpersonal communication guide development; zone of proximal development; play research






48. An excessive attachment to some person or object that was appropriate only at an earlier stage of development






49. Theory that holds that an observer's perception depends not only on the intensity of a stimulus but also on the observer's motivation - the criteria he or she sets for determining that a signal is present - and on the background noise.






50. Body sense that provides information about the position and movement of individual parts of the body