AP Psychology
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1. Selective reinforcement of behaviors that gradually approach the desired response

2. The belief that a person can successfully engage in and execute a specific behavior

3. The process of analyzing and interpreting events - other people - oneself - and the world in general.

4. Focused awareness of only a limited amount of all you are capable of experiencing

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

6. A generalized feeling of fear and apprehension that may be related to a particular situation or object and is often accompanied by increased physiological arousal.

7. A definition of a variable in terms of the set of methods or procedures used to measure or study that variable

8. Learning involving an unpleasant or harmful stimulus or reinforcer

9. Process by which a neutral stimulus takes on conditioned properties through pairing with a conditioned stimulus

10. The most frequently occurring score in a set of data

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

12. The depth and richness of a hue determined by determined by the homogeneity of the wavelengths contained in the reflected light; also known as purity.

13. Terminal button - synaptic knob; the structure at the end of an excellent terminal branch; houses the synaptic vesicles and neurotransmitters

14. The linguistic description of how a language functions - especially the rules and patterns used for generating appropriate and comprehensible sentences.

15. Sharpness of vision

16. Communication of information through body positions and gestures.

17. Repetitive review of information with little or no interpretation

18. Photoreceptors that detect black - white - and gray - and movement; used for vision in dim light

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

20. A sample of individuals who match the population with whom they are being compared with regard to key variables such as socioeconomic status and age

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

22. Trait theory of personality; 3 levels of traits: cardinal - central - and secondary

23. Studies of hereditability on the assumption that if a gene influences a certain trait - close relatives should be more similar on that trait in distant relative

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

25. State of physiological imbalance usually accompanied by arousal