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AP Psych Vocab (A)
AP Psych Vocabulary (A)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| the minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50 percent of the time | Absolute Threshold |
| adapting our current understandings (schemas) to incorporate new information | Accommodation(1) |
| tests designed to assess what a person has learned | Achievement Tests |
| act or state of adjustment or adaptation, changes in shape of the ocular lens for various focal distances | Accommodation (2) |
| the encoding of sound, especially the sound of words | Acoustic/Auditory Encoding |
| in classical conditioning, the initial stage, when one links a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus so that the neutral stimulus begins triggering the conditioned response. in operant conditioning, the strengthening of a reinforced response | Acquisition |
| neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon. | Action Potential |
| empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client centered therapy | Active Listening |
| our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of lights, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience | Adaptation-Level Phenomenon |
| compulsive drug craving and use, despite adverse consequences | Addiction |
| the transition period from childhood to adulthood, extending from puberty to independence | Adolescence |
| pair of endocrine glands that sit just above the kidneys and secrete hormones (epinephrine and norepinephrine) that help arouse the body in times of stress. | Adrenal Glands |
| any physical/verbal behavior intended to hurt or destroy | Aggression |
| a methodical, logical rule or procedure that guarantees solving a particular problems. contrasts with the usually speedier - but also more error-prone-use of heuristics | Algorithm |
| the relatively slow brain waves of a relaxed, awake state | Alpha Waves |
| unselfish regard for the welfare of others | Altruism |
| the loss of memory | Amnesia |
| drugs that stimulate neural activity, causing speeded-up body functions and associated energy and mood changes | Amphetamines |
| two lima bean-sized neural clusters in the limbic system; linked to emotion (mad aunt amy) | Amygdala |
| an eating disorder in which a person (usually an adolescent female) diets and becomes significantly (15% or more) underweight, yet, still feeling fat, continues to starve | Anorexia Nervosa |
| drugs used to control anxiety and agitation | Antianxiety drugs |
| drugs used to treat depression; also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work by altering the availability of various neurotransmitters | Antidepressant Drugs |
| drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder | Antipsychotic Drugs |
| personality disorder in which the person (usually a man) exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even toward friends and family members; may be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist. | Antisocial Personality Disorder |
| Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety. | Anxiety Disorders |
| impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area (impairing speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impairing understanding). | Aphasia |
| scientific study that aims to solve practical problems. | Applied Research |
| tests designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn | Aptitude Tests |
| interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas | Assimilation |
| areas of the cerebral cortex that are not involved in primary motor or sensory functions; rather, they are involved in higher mental functions such as learning, remembering, thinking , and speaking. | Association Areas |
| learning that certain events occur together. the events may be two stimuli (as in classical conditioning) or a response and its consequences (as in operant conditioning) | Associative Learning |
| an emotional tie with another person; shown in young children by their seeking closeness to the caregiver and showing distress on separation | Attachment |
| psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of three key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. | Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) |
| feelings, often influenced by our beliefs, that predispose us to response in a particular way to objects, people, and events | Attitude |
| theory that we explain someone's behavior by crediting either the situation or the person's disposition | Attribution Theory |
| the sense or act of hearing | Audition |
| a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of minds | Autism |
| unconscious encoding of incidental information, such as space time, and frequency, and of welllearned information, such as word meanings. | Automatic Processing |
| the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs (such as the heart). Its sympathetic division arouses; its parasympathetic division calms | Autonomic Nervous System |
| estimating the likelihood of events based on their availability in memory; if instances come readily to mind (perhaps because of their vividness), we presume such events are common | Availability Heuristic |
| a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant states (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking) | Aversive Conditioning |
| the extension of a neuron, ending in branching terminal fivers through which messages pass to other neurons or to muscles or glands. | Axon |
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