5 Steps to a 5 AP Psychology 2019

330 ❯ Glossary Confounding variables—in a controlled experi- ment, factors that cause differences between the experimental group ...

Glossary ❮ 331 a group of people who share a common language and environment. Daily hassles—everyday annoyances such as having t ...

332 ❯ Glossary Dissociative disorders—class of disorders in which traumatic events or unpleasant memories cause a massive repres ...

Glossary ❮ 333 Engrams—memory traces of information encoded in your brain that you acquire during life. Episodic memories—person ...

334 ❯ Glossary Flashbulb memories—a clear and vivid memory of an emotionally significant moment or event. Flooding—behavior trea ...

Glossary ❮ 335 Generalization—in classical conditioning, CRs elic- ited by stimuli that resemble the CS used in training. In ope ...

336 ❯ Glossary Homosexuality—a tendency to direct sexual desire toward another person of the same sex. Homozygous—the condition ...

Glossary ❮ 337 Inhibitory neurotransmitter—chemical secreted at terminal button that reduces or prevents neural impulses in the ...

338 ❯ Glossary Learning—a relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience. Lens—structure in the eye behind th ...

Glossary ❮ 339 Metabolism—the sum total of all chemical processes that occur in our bodies, which are necessary to keep us alive ...

340 ❯ Glossary Neural network—clusters of neurons that are inter- connected to process information. Neurocognitive (organic) dis ...

Glossary ❮ 341 Opponent-process theory of emotions—following a strong emotion, an opposing emotion counters the first emotion le ...

342 ❯ Glossary Personal fable—exaggerated belief in a person’s unique ness and immortality in adolescence. Personal unconscious— ...

Glossary ❮ 343 Prejudice—unjustified attitudes we hold about others; generally negative evaluation based on eth- nicity, race, s ...

344 ❯ Glossary Punishment—an aversive consequence that follows a voluntary behavior thereby decreasing the prob- ability the beh ...

Glossary ❮ 345 Retrieval cue—a stimulus that provides a trigger to get an item out of stored memory. Retroactive inference—recen ...

346 ❯ Glossary Semantic networks—model of long-term memory with more irregular and distorted systems than strict hierarchies, wi ...

Glossary ❮ 347 Social skills training—cognitive behavioral therapy where the therapist can model the behavior for the client and ...

348 ❯ Glossary Structuralism—early psychological perspective that emphasized units of consciousness and identifica- tion of elem ...

Glossary ❮ 349 Trace conditioning—in classical conditioning, the CS is presented first, removed, and then the UCS is presented. ...