AP Psychology
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1. Theorist who both aided in the development of the trichromatic theory of color perception and Place theory of pitch perception.

2. 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

3. Motivation supplied by rewards that come from the external environment

4. Moral development studies to follow up Kohlberg. She studied girls and women and found that they did not score as high on his six stage scale because they focused more on relationships rather than laws and principles. Their reasoning was merely diffe

5. Behavior learned through coincidental association with reinforcement

6. Austrian-Jewish woman (real name: Bertha Pappenheim) diagnosed with hysteria - treated by Josef Breuer for severe cough - paralysis of the extremities on the right side of her body - and disturbances of vision - hearing - and speech - as well as hall

7. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.

8. Conscious experience of emotion and physiological arousal occur at the same time

9. Graph of a frequency distribution that shows the number of instances of obtained scores - usually with the data points connect by straight lines

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

11. Maintenance of a constant state of inner stability or balance

12. Conformity; showed that social pressure can make a person say something that is obviously incorrect ; in a famous study in which participants were shown cards with lines of different lengths and were asked to say which line matched the line on the fi

13. The light-sensitive cells in the retina- the rods and cones.

14. A group of psychological disorders characterized by a lack of reality testing and by deterioration of social and intellectual functioning and personality beginning before age 45 and lasting at least 6 months

15. Studies that estimate the hereditability of a trait by breeding animals with another animal that has the same trait

16. Division which includes the cerebellum - Pons - and medulla; responsible for involuntary processes: blood pressure - body temperature - heart rate - breathing - sleep cycles

17. Below-average intellectual functioning - as measured on an IQ test - accompanied by substantial limitations in functioning that originate before age 8

18. Psychological disorder that may become evident after a person has undergone extreme stress caused by some type of disaster; common symptoms include vivid - intrusive recollections or reexperiences of the traumatic event and occasional lapses of norma

19. Operant training system that uses secondary reinforcers (tokens) to increase appropriate behavior; learners can exchange tokens for desired rewards

20. Number of wavelengths that pass a point in a given amount of time; determines hue of light and the pitch of a sound

21. Unlearned or involuntary response to an unconditioned stimulus

22. The percentage of a population displaying a disorder during any specified period.

23. Rehearsal involving repletion and analysis - in which a stimulus may be associated with (linked to) other information and further processed

24. 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

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