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AP Psych Vocab (F/G)
AP Psych Vocabulary (F/G)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| the effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness | Facial Feedback |
| a statistical procedure that identifies clusters of related items (called factors) on a test; used to identify different dimensions of performance that underlie a person's total score | Factor Analysis |
| therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members | Family Therapy |
| nerve cells in the brain that respond to specific features of the stimulus, such as shape, angle, or movement | Feature Detectors |
| people's tendency to be helpful when already in a good mood | Feel-Good, Do-Good Phenomenon |
| physical and cognitive abnormalities in children caused by a pregnant woman's heavy drinking; in severe cases, symptoms include noticeable facial misproportions | Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) |
| the developing human organism from 9 weeks after conception to birth | Fetus |
| The organization of the visual field into objects (the figures) that stand out from their surroundings (the ground). | Figure Ground |
| a clear memory of an emotionally significant moment or event | Flashbulb Memory |
| our ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood | Fluid Intelligence |
| a technique for revealing bloodflow and, therefore, brain activity by comparing successive MRI scans. Shows brain function. | fMRI (Functional MRI) |
| the tendency for people who have agreed to a small request to comply later with a larger request | Foot in the Door Technique |
| in Piaget's theory, the stage of cognitive development (normally beginning about age 12) during which people begin to think logically about abstract concepts | Formal Operational Stage |
| the central focal point in the retina, around which the eye's cones cluster | Fovea |
| the way an issue is posed; can affect decisions and judgements | Framing |
| twins who develop from separate fertilized eggs. They are genetically no closer that brothers and sisters, but they share a fetal environment. | Fraternal Twins |
| in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing. | Free Association |
| The number of complete waves that pass a given point in a certain amount of time | Frequency |
| in hearing, the theory that the rate of nerve impulses traveling up the auditory nerve matches the frequency of a tone, thus enabling us to sense its pitch | Frequency Theory |
| portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead; involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgements. | Frontal Lobes |
| the principle that frustration, the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal, creates anger which can generate aggression | Frustration-Aggression Principle |
| the tendency to think of things only in terms of their usual functions; an impediment to problem solving | Functional Fixedness |
| a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function-how they enable us to adapt, survive and flourish | Functionalism |
| the tendency for observes, when analyzing another's behavior, to underestimate the impact of the situation and to overestimate the impact of personal disposition | Fundamental Attribution Error |
| theory that spinal cord contains neurological gate that blocks pains signals or allows them to pass. gate is opened by activity of pain going up small nerve fibers & gate is closed by act of large fibers or by info coming from brain | Gate-Control Theory |
| in psychology, the biologically and socially influenced characteristics by which people define male and female | Gender |
| our sense of being male or female | Gender Identity |
| a set of expected behavior for males or for females | Gender Role |
| the acquisition of a traditional masculine or feminine role | Gender Typing |
| Selye's concept of the body's adaptive response to stress in three phases - alarm, resistance, exhaustion | General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS) |
| a general intelligence factor that, according to Spearman and others, underlies specific mental abilities and is therefore measured by every task on an intelligence test. | General Intelligence |
| the tendency, once a response has been conditioned, for a stimuli similar to the conditioned stimulus to elicit similar responses | Generalization |
| An anxiety disorder in which a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal. | Generalized Anxiety Disorder |
| the biochemical units of heredity that make up the chromosomes; segments of DNA capable of synthesizing a protein. | Genes |
| the complete instructions for making an organism, consisting of all the genetic material in that organism's chromosomes. | Genome |
| an organized whole. Gestalt psychologists emphasized our tendency to integrate pieces of information into meaningful wholes. | Gestalt |
| cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons. | Glial Cell |
| the form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues; when its level is low, we feel hunger | Glucose |
| in a language, a system of rules that enables us to communicate with and understand others | Grammar |
| tendency of group members to move to an extreme position after discussing an issue as a group | Group Polarization |
| the perceptual tendency to organize stimuli into coherent groups | Grouping |
| according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasureseeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved. | Fixation |
| in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified time has elapsed | Fixed-Interval Schedule |
| in operant conditioning, a reinforcement schedule that reinforces a response only after a specified number of responses | Fixed-Ratio Schedule |
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