AP Psychology
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1. False beliefs that are inconsistent with reality but are held in spite of evidence that disproves them.

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

3. 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.

4. A counterconditioning technique in which an aversive or noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus with the undesirable behavior.

5. Problem-solving technique that involves considering all possible solutions without making prior evaluative judgments.

6. 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.

7. Three age individual IQ tests: WPPSI (children) - WISC (children) - WAIS (adults)

8. The ability to recall past events - images - ideas - or previously learned information or skills; the storage system that allows a person to retain and retrieve previously learned information

9. School of psychological thought that was concerned with how and why the conscious mind works

10. Focuses on how effective teaching and learning take place

11. According to Piaget - the process by which existing mental structures and behaviors are modified to adapt to new experiences

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

13. Special process of emotional attachment that may occur between parents and babies in the minutes and hours immediately after birth

14. Emotion; found that facial expressions are universal

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

16. The behavior of giving up or not responding - exhibited by people and animals exposed to negative consequences or punishment over which they feel they have no control.

17. A division of the peripheral nervous system that regulates involuntary functions; made up of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems

18. Change in behavior that occurs when people believe they are in the presence of other people.

19. Occurs when recall is better for a distinctive item - even if it occurs in the middle of a list

20. 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

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

22. A trait or inherited characteristic that has increased in a population because it solved a problem of survival or reproduction

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

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

25. In psychoanalysis - an unwillingness to cooperate - which a patient signals by showing a reluctance to provide the therapist with information or to help the therapist understand or interpret a situation.