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AP PSYCHOLOGY VOCAB Test

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deciding where you heard or read something is
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when the source of a communication lacks trustworthiness
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termen
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JND
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idea that actions dictate attitudes; not other way arround
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loci
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overextension
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shaping
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bias that occurs when reinterpreting the past to fit our awareness of how events actually turned out
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somnabulism
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took behaviorism to a new level and claimed there is no free will since environment determines everything
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James
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distal stimuli
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profound
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sensory memory storage
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decreases the liklihood that the postsynaptic neuron will fire action potentials
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device that measures electrical activity of brain through electrodes attached to scalp
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mental set
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stereotype vulnerability
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SWS
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child refers to anything round as ball
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step by step reinforcement of behaviors that get closer to the ultimate behavior
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lie outside in the distance
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mnemonic method in which you imagine the material to be remembered in familiar location
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acronym for sleep stages 3&4
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sleep walking
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has split second duration
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self perception theory
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skinner
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acronym for the smallest detected change in the amout of stimulation
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credibility
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hindsight
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inhibitory PSP
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inhibits problem solving when one persists in using strategies that have worked in the past
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EEG
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classification of retardation in which one needs total care
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one's association with a race that has a stigma for low intelligence may impede his academic development
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source monitoring
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psychologist theorized that the autonomic response precedes the experience of emotion
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corrected earlier intelligence tests by adding "performance scale" and using normal distribution
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lobe that contains motor strip
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processing from individual elements to the whole
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key androgen associated with sexual interest
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main concern of structuralists, functionalists, and gestalt psychologists
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tendency to see things in a particular way
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require carefully planned sequence of changes to arrive at a specified goal
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responds to gravity and informs us of where we are in space
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one finds examples that confirm an erroneous belief and overlooks examples that would disconfirm it
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new material inhibits the retention of previously learned material
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timing of the CS begins and ends before UCS is presented

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