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AP Psychology

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1. Personality categories in which broad collections of traits are loosely tied together and interrelated.






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






3. Suffering from a gross impairment in reality testing that interferes with the ability to meet the ordinary demands of life.






4. Perception; identified just-noticeable-difference (JND) that eventually becomes Weber's law






5. Largest - most complicated - and most advanced of the three divisions of the brain; comprises the thalamus - hypothalamus - limbic system - basal ganglia - corpus callosum - and cortex






6. The arithmetic average of a set of scores






7. When a neuron is in polarization; more negative ions are inside the neuron cell membrane with a positive ions on the outside - causing a small electrical charge; release of this charge generates a neuron's impulse (signal/message)






8. A descriptive study that includes an intensive study of one person and allows an intensive examination of a single case - usually chosen for its interesting or unique characteristics






9. State of emotional and physical exhaustion - lowered productivity - and feelings of isolation - often caused by work-related pressures






10. For glands embedded in the thyroid; secretes parathormone; controls announces level of calcium and phosphate (which influence levels of excitability)






11. The overt story line - characters - and setting of a dream-the obvious - clearly discernible events of the dream






12. Intelligence - comparative; Yerkes-Dodson law: level of arousal as related to performance






13. 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'






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






15. Explanations of behavior that focus on people's expectations about reaching a goal and their need for achievement as energizing factors






16. Sense of taste






17. Transparent covering of the eye






18. 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.






19. The tendency for one characteristic of an individual to influence a tester's evaluation of other characteristics






20. Production of new brain cells; November 1988: cancer patients proved that new neurons grew until the end of life






21. The study of the patterns and distributions of speech sounds in a language and the tacit rules for their pronunciation.






22. Anxiety disorders characterized as acute anxiety - accompanied by sharp increases in autonomic nervous system arousal - that is not triggered by a specific event.






23. An electrical current sent down the axon of a neuron and is initiated by the rapid reversal of the polarization of the cell membrane






24. The sense of hearing






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






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






27. Perception below the threshold of awareness.






28. Part of the limbic system; influences emotions such as aggression - fear - and self-protective behaviors






29. Member of a gene terror that controls the appearance of a certain trait






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






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






32. Reinforcer that has survival value for an organism; this value does not have to be learned






33. The level of consciousness devoted to processes completely unavailable to conscious awareness (e.g. - fingernails growing)






34. Tiny oval-shaped sacs in a terminal of one neuron; assist in transferring mineral impulse from one neuron to another neuron by releasing specific neurotransmitters






35. Reflex in which a newborn fans out the toes when the sole of the foot is touched






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






37. Subjects and not exposed to a changing variable in an experiment






38. A design in which researchers manipulate an independent variable and measure a dependent variable to determine a cause-and-effect relationship






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






40. The statistically determined minimum level of stimulation necessary to excite a perceptual system.






41. Positively reinforcing closer and closer approximation of a desired behavior to teach a new behavior






42. Memory; studied memorization of meaningless words






43. A procedure in which a researcher systematically manipulates and observes elements of a situation in order to test a hypothesis and make a cause-and-effect statement






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






45. Neurotransmitter that influences voluntary movement - attention - alertness; lack of dopamine linked with Parkinson's disease; too much is linked with schizophrenia






46. The study if the overlapping fields of perception - learning - memory - and thought - with a special emphasis on how people attend to - acquire - transform - store - and retrieve knowledge.






47. Inability to understand or use language






48. Perspective concerned with how cultural differences affect behavior






49. 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.






50. Any behavior intended to harm another person or thing.







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