AP Psychology

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Altruism—an unselfish interest in helping others. Alzheimer’s disease—a fatal degenerative disease in which brain neurons progre ...

Behavioral geneticists—study the role played by our genes and our environment in mental ability, emotional stability, temperamen ...

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Blocking—the inability to condition a second stim- ulus because of prior conditioning to another stimulus that is also present d ...

84 ❯ Sensation and Perception IN THIS CHAPTER Summary:If you had to give up one of your senses, which one would it be? Most peop ...

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Free ebooks ==> http://www.Ebook777.com Sensation and Perception ❮ 85 Thresholds Sensory sensitivity can be measured by the a ...

Conservation concepts—changes in the form of an object do not alter physical properties of mass, volume and number, acquired dur ...

86 ❯ STEP 4. Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High three areas: in the cones and rods of the retina located at the back in ...

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inability to remember important events or per- sonal information. Dissociative disorders—class of disorders in which traumatic e ...

88 ❯ STEP 4. Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High light, and complementary wavelengths have opposite effects. For example ...

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Fixation—(for problem solving) an inability to look at a problem from a fresh perspective, using a prior strategy that does not ...

90 ❯ STEP 4. Review the Knowledge You Need to Score High Hearing Loss Why do hearing aids only help some deaf people? Conduction ...