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AP Psych Reveiw

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Memory   the process of encoding, retreving, and storing messages in the brain.  
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Information Processing Model   process that includes sensory memory, working memory, encoding, long-term memory, and retrevial.  
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Levels of Processing Model   the deeper information is encoded, the more likely we are to remember it.  
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sensory memory   stores all sensory information for a short period of time.  
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George Sperling   demonstrated how information is held in the sensory memory.  
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Iconic Memory   a breif mental photograph of a scene.  
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Selective Attention   attending to sensory information that is most important at the time (cocktail party effect).  
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Echoic Memory   a brief memory for sounds.  
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Short Term Memory   the working memory where sensory info stays for about 30 seconds.  
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Chunking   a way of remembering lists by grouping information.  
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Mneumonic devices   memory aids that help you to remember a list (ex: remembering the planets with an acronym).  
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Rehearsal   remembering information by repeating it.  
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Long-Term Memory   acts as the storage unit for memories.  
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Episodic Memory   memories of specific events.  
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Semantic Memory   general knowledge of the world.  
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Procedural Memory   memories on how to do something such as tying your shoe.  
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Explicit Memories   the conscious memories of facts or events.  
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implicit Memories   unintentional memories you have of events.  
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Eidetic Memory   photographic memory.  
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retrieval   getting information out of long term memory so we can use it.  
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Recognition   the process of matching a current event or fact with one already in our memory.  
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Recall   retreiving a memory with an external cue  
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Primacy Effect   the tendancy to remember the beginning of a list.  
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Recency Effect   the tendancy to remember the end of a list.  
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Serial Position Effect   the tendancy to remember things at the beginning and end of a list.  
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Tip of the Tongue Phenomenon   when you know you know the information but you cannot retreive it from your long term memory.  
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Semantic Network Theory   our brain forms new memories by connecting their meaning and context with meanings already in memory.  
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Flashbulb Memories   a vivid memory related to an event.  
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State Dependent Theory   recalling specific events while in particular states of consiousness.  
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Mood-Congruent Theory   recalling a memory when you are in the same mood as you were when the event happened.  
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Constructed Memory   false recollection of a memory.  
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Relearning Effect   after you have already learned information, it will take you shorter time to re-learn it.  
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Retroactive Interference   learning new information interferes with remembering old information.  
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Proactive Interference   old information interferes with learning new information.  
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Anterograde Amnesia   inability to encode new memories.  
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Retrograde Amnesia   inability to remember previous memories.  
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Long-Term Potention   the more often we use a memory, strenghtens how quickly the neurons will fire.  
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Phonemes   the smallest units of sounds used in language.  
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Morphemes   the smallest unit of meaningful sound.  
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Syntax   the order in which words are written.  
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Language Acquisition   how we learn language; language is innate.  
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Linguistic Relativity Process   language controls and limist our thinking (Whorf).  
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Prototypes   what we think is the mosty typical example of a particular concept.  
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Images   mental images we create in our minds.  
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Algorithm   formula that garuntees the right answer.  
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Heuristic   a shortcut to finding the right answer.  
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Representative Heuristic   making a judgement based on previously learned information  
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Belief Bias   the tendency to not change our beliefs even when presented with contradictory concepts.  
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Functional Fixedness   inability to problem solve.  
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Conformation Bias   tendency to pay attention to information that confirms our beliefs and ignore information that refutes it.  
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Convergent Thinking   thinking pointed at one solution  
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Divergent Thinking   thinking that searches for multiple answers.  
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Availabilty Heuristic   judging a situation based on examples of similar situations that come to mind initialy. (ex: steroetyping a blonde to be dumb).  
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Trephining   an early form of treatment where holes would be made in human skull's to let the harmful spirits escape.  
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Deinstitutionalization   releasing people from mental insitutions due to the development of drugs.  
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Prevention   if psychological problems can be treated before they become severe, then the suffering of the client as well as the cost will be reduced.  
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Psychotherapy   treatment of mental disorders that involves talking to the therapist.  
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Frued's Psychoanalysis   views the cause of disorders as unconscious conflicts, therefore the focus is identifying the underlying problem.  
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Free Association   saying whatever comes to mind without thinking about it; meant to bring unconscious desires to light.  
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Dream Analysis   the ego's defenses are down during sleep, so unconscious desires are brought to light.  
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Manifest Content   the storyline of a dream.  
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Latent Content   the underlying meaning of the dream.  
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Resistance   resisting what thier psychologist says because the psychologist is right about his analysis; meant to protect the patient.  
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Transference   transfering thoughts about a specific person onto the psychologist.  
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Insight Therapies   highlights the importants of the clients gaining an understanding of their problems.  
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Humanistisc Therapies   focus on helping people understand and accept themselves through self actualization.  
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Client-Centered Therapy   developed by Carl Rogers; therapist provides unconditional positive regard for the patient letting them know that they understand.  
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Unconditional Positive Regard   blanket acceptance and support for a person regardless of what the person says or does.  
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Acitve or Relfectve Listening   actively clarifying the feeling of the client to let them know that the therapist is listening.  
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Gestalt Therapy   emphasize the importance of the whole selves and to get in touch with body position and small actions.  
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Existential Therapies   humanistic therapies that focus on helping clients achieve a subjectively meaningful perception of their lives; help the clients to see thier lives as worthwhile.  
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Behaviorist Therapies   believe that all behavior is learned through classical, operant conditioning, and modeling.  
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Counterconditioning   an unpleasant conditioned response is replaced with a pleasant one.  
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Systematic Desensitization   the process of replacing the feelings of anxiety with relaxation.  
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Anxiety Hierarchy   a rank-ordered list of what the client fear, starting with the least frighteneing and ending with the most frighteneing.  
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Flooding   clients face thier fears all at once which therapists hope will irrationalaize their fears and the fear will be extinguished.  
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Aversive Conditioning   pairs a habit a person wishes to break with an unpleasant stimulus.  
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Token Economy   desired behaviors are identified and rewarded with tokens which can be exchanged for various objects or priveleges.  
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Cognitive Therapies   focus on changing unhealthy thought patters.  
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Attributinal Style   attributing behaviors to external locus' of control rather than internal.  
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Beck's Cognitive Therapy   method involving clients trying to get clients to engage in puruits that will bein gthem success; often used in treatment of depression.  
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy   combines cognitive and behavioral therapies.  
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Ellis' Ratikonal Emotive Behavior Therapy   seek to expose and confront the dysfuntional thoughts of their clients.  
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Group THerapies   less expensive and can be helpful bc you get all the groups insight.  
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Somatic Therapies   therapies that produce bodily changes.  
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Psychopharmocology   drug therapy.  
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Antipsychotic Drugs   blocks the receptor sitse for dopamine; usually used in the treatment of schizophrenia such as thorazine of haldol.  
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Antidepressants   drugs that block neurotransmitters.  
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Antianxietydrugs   act by depressing the activity of the central nervous system, such as barbituates and Xanax and Valium.  
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Elecrtoconvulsive Therapys   therapy in which an electrical current passes through both hemispheres of the brain, followed by a breif seizure; mainly used in the treatment of depresiion.  
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Psychosurgery   procedures done as a last resort where part of the brain is destroyed to alter a person's behavior.  
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Psychiatrists   medical doctors who can prescribe drugs.  
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Clinical Psychologists   have phDs and deal with more severe mental issues.  
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Counseling Psychologists   school psychologists, or marraige and family therapists.  
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Psychoanalysts   people specifically trained in Freudian methods and they may not have medical degrees.  
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