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2a. Neurons, neurotransmitters, (beginning)
Unit 2
41
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2b. The Brain & Limbic System
Unit 2
27
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2c. Structure of the Cortex and the Endocrine System
Unit 2
33
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2d. Scans
Unit 2
12
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2e. States of Consciousness & Sleep
Unit 4
75
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2f. Dreams
A sequence of images emotions and...,
Awakened and questioned during __...,
__ out of 10 dreams have negative...
17
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2g. Altering Consciousness
Combines refocusing attenetion wi...,
A state of heightened suggestibil...,
Power resides in the subject s op...
63
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Sensation and Perception
Unit 3
26
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Vision
Unit 3
48
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Hearing
Unit 3
41
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Chemical and Body Senses
Unit 3
26
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Perception
Unit 3
59
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Learning and Conditioning
The process by which experience o...,
Learning that happens when an org...,
An understanding that there is a ...
25
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Operant and Observational Conditioning
The type of learning in which beh...,
The type of learning in which beh...,
First psychologist to formulate t...
54
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Memory (Unit 6)
The persistence of learning over ...,
A clear memory of a highly emotio...,
A sensation that helps another pe...
72
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Forgetting and Memory Construction (Unit 6)
Seven sins of memory by,
What are the three sins of forget...,
What are the three sins of distor...
43
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Unit 6 Free Response Terms
Ach,
The little brain attached to the ...,
Occurs on a 24 25 hour cycle and ...
29
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Cognition and Language (Unit 7)
All the mental activities associa...,
Where does thinking occur,
Thinking abou thtinking
60
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Intelligence (Unit 8)
The capacity to understand the wo...,
Believed intelligence is inherite...,
Suggested eugenics
80
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Motivation and Hunger (Unit 9)
A psychological process that init...,
Three types of motivation,
Based on biological needs for sur...
79
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Sexual and Social Motivation
Involves mating and passing along...,
Inoves attachment with sexual desire,
Attachment involves the hypothala...
31
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Emotions and Stress (Unit 9 & 10)
To experience emotion one must 1 ...,
The emotional release,
Suggests that for every major emo...
58
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Genetics (Unit 11)
A long threadlike structure made ...,
__ pairs of ___ total,
Chromosome pairs 1 22
65
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The History of Developmental Psych (Unit 11)
Developmental theories can be bro...,
Propose development is very gradu...,
More stage like in that changes o...
8
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Freud's Psychosexual Stages (Unit 11)
List the psychosexual stages in o...,
What age is the oral stage,
Transition from breastfeeding to ...
28
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Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development & Vygotsky (Unit 11)
What are the stages of cognitive ...,
Child begins to understand that t...,
What age is the sensorimotor stage
30
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Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development & Carol Gilligan (Unit 11)
Inspired by piaget kohlberg explo...,
External forces dictate behavior ...,
What age is the preconventional l...
11
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Erik Erikson, Temperament, Identity, Attachment, and Mary Ainsworth (Unit 11)
Theory of development that contin...,
There are _________ _____ _______...,
If infant needs are met a sense o...
38
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The Rest of Developmental Psych and Adolescence/Adulthood (Unit 11)
Surrogate mother experiments,
Strong attachment is due to _____...,
Human newborns and infants need p...
31
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Unit 1 Review
Explain human thought and behavio...,
How natural selection of traits p...,
Look at observable behaviors and ...
64
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Unit 2 Review
Theory that claimed bumps on the ...,
Study of the links between biolog...,
Nerve cell basic building block o...
91
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Unit 3 Review
Process by which we detect physic...,
Process by which the brain organi...,
Analysis begins with the sense re...
102
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Unit 4 Review
Our awareness of ourselves and ou...,
Includes all biological processes...,
Stored information within our sel...
79
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Personality (Unit 12)
An individual s characteristic pa...,
No _______ experiments or _______...,
Focuses on understanding the uniq...
94
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Social Psychology (Unit 13)
The study of how groups and cultu...,
Looks at how social and situation...,
Research by social psychologists ...
77
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Unit 6 Review
Persistence of learning over time...,
Mental representation of a set of...,
The principle that infomation is ...
71
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Unit 7 & 8 Review
Mental activity associated with t...,
Mental grouping of similar object...,
Levels of concept
103
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Unit 9 & 10 Review
Need or desire that energizes and...,
Based on biological needs for sur...,
Need for information learning and...
92
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Unit 11 Review
Threadlike structure made of dna ...,
Complex molecule containing the g...,
Biochemical units of heredity tha...
132
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Clinical/Abnormal Psychology (Unit 14)
Behavior that is disturbing distr...,
A psychological disorder is marke...,
Internal conflict in the unconsci...
75
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Therapy (Unit 15)
Believed a therapist should be wa...,
Emotional bond between therapist ...,
The first to direct attention to ...
43
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AP Exam Free Response Terms
A very short term type of memory ...,
A study of how two or more variab...,
This theory employs a strategy of...
65
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