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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP
PSYCH-MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: resistance
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second stage of GAS during which the body adapts to and uses resources to cope with stressor
Question 2: archetypes
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ancient memory images in the collective unconscious. appear and reappear in art, literature, and folktales around the world. mother, father, shadow, trickster, old wise man
Question 3: perceptual constancies
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ability to recognize the same object as remaining constant under different conditions,
Question 4: mental age
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average age at which individual achieves a certain score
Question 5: parasympathetic division
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part of autonomic system that monitors body's function to calm it down after arousal by sympathetic division.
Question 6: law of simliarity
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tend to group simliar objects together in perception
Question 7: memory
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a system that encodes, stores, and retrieves information
Question 8: neo-freudians
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refers to theoriests who broke with freud but whose theories retain psychodynamic aspect, especially a focus on motivation as the source of energy for the personality
Question 9: Phoneme
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smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning
Question 10: freuds things to dreams
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to guard sleep to fulfill wishes of the unconsious.
Question 11: conservation
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understanding that physical properties of an object of substance do not change hen appearences change but nothing is added or taken away
Question 12: animistic thinking
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inanimate objects are imagined to have life and mental processes
Question 13: extrinsic motivation
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desire to engage in an activity to achieve and external consequence, a reward
Question 14: sensory neurons are
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neurons that carry messages from sense receptors from the body to the central nervous system
Question 15: kohlberg stage 6
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theoretical stage. ethical principle orientation. morality is based on one's conscious. achieve justice; be consistent with one's principle. no mutual benefit for oneself.
Question 16: ex post facto
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subjects are chosen based on pre-existing conditions
Question 17: Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis
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The hypothesis that frustration leads to aggressive behavior. Frustration develops when an aggressor is unable to attain a goal
Question 18: where does pain exist
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in our brain
Question 19: frequency distributions
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shows how frequent each various score is in a set of data
Question 20: opiates
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heroin, morphine. highly addictive. produce profound sense of wel being and have strong relieiving properties
Question 21: script
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a cluster of knowledge about sequence of events and actions expected to occur in particular settings
Question 22: cognitive interpretation type of response
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attaching meaning to the emotional experience by drawing on memory and perceptual processes
Question 23: hallucinogens.
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LSD and marijuana. distort perception and evoke sensory images in the absence of sensory stimuli.generally psychological dependence unknown physical dependence
Question 24: procedural memory
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type of long term memory that stores memories of things are done
Question 25: Syntax
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the rules specify how words should be ordered in a sentence in order to give that sentence meaning
Question 26: Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis
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a hypothesis that language determines our character and the way we think. we are shaped by the language around us and therefore so is our character
Question 27: olfaction
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sense of smell
Question 28: gordon allport
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- kinds oof individual traits, central--basis of personality. secondary--preference and attitudes, and
sometimes cardinal-single trait that defines you
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