FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP TEST

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP TEST

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Question 1: Overconfidence

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the tendency to be more confident than correct-to overestimate the accuracy of our beliefs and judgments (pg 365)

Question 2: Weber's law

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the principle that, to be perceived as different, two stimuli must differ by a constant minimum percentage

Question 3: Gender role

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a set of expected behaviors for males or females

Question 4: theory

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an explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events

Question 5: client-centered therapy

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a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate client's growth

Question 6: Range

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difference between highest and lowest scores

Question 7: menopause

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time of natural cessation of menstruation; also refers to the biological changes a woman experiences as her ability to reproduce declines.

Question 8: action potential

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a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon

Question 9: Psychoneuroimmunology

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The study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.

Question 10: Sampling Bias

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a flawed sampling process that produces an unrepresentative sample (p. 43)

Question 11: One-word stage

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the stage in speech development, from about age 1 to 2, during which a child speaks mostly in single words

Question 12: Antianxiety Drugs

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Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation.

Question 13: Social clock

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the culturally preferred timing of social events such as marriage, parenthood, and retirement (pg 544)

Question 14: PET(positron emission tomography) scan

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A visual display of brain activity that detects where a radioactive form of glucose goes well the brain performs a given task

Question 15: Cerebellum

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the "little brain" at the rear of the brainstem; functions include processing sensory input, coordinating movement output and balance, and enabling nonverbal learning and memory.

Question 16: stereotype threat

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a self-confirming concern that one will be evaluated based on a negative stereotype

Question 17: companionate love

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the deep affectionate attachment we feel for those with whom our lives are intertwined

Question 18: lens

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the transparent structure behind the pupil that changes shape to help focus images on the retina

Question 19: Short-term memory

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activated memory that hold a few items briefly, such as the seven digits of a phone number while dialing, before the information is stored or forgotten (pg 319)

Question 20: Aversive conditioning

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a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol).

Question 21: Blind spot

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the point at which the optic nerve leaves the eye, creating a "blind" spot because no receptor cells are located there.

Question 22: Antisocial Personality Disorder

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A personality disorder in which a person exhibits a lack of conscience for wrongdoing, even towards friends and family members. May be aggressive and ruthless or a clever con artist.

Question 23: long-term memory

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the relatively permanent and limitless storehouse of the memory system. Includes knowledge, skills, and experiences

Question 24: Reciprocal Determinism

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the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment

Question 25: confirmation bias

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a tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

Question 26: Endocrine sytem

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the body's "slow" chemical communication system; a set of glands that secrete hormones into the bloodstream

Question 27: linguistic determinism

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Whorf's hypothesis that language determines the way we think