UNIT 1
This Psychological Perspective explores how Natural Selection affects the expression of behavior and mental processes to increase survival and reproductive success.
What is The Evolutionary Perspective
The process of grouping information together into meaningful categories or hierarchies in order to improve encoding.
What is Chunking
Heightened anxiety or fear in children when away from a caregiver or in the presence of a stranger.
What is Separation Anxiety
A generalized concept about a group, frequently the basis of prejudice and discriminative behavior.
What is a Stereotype
This psychological perspective seeks to identify factors that lead to well being, resilience, positive emotions, and psychological health.
What is Positive Psychology
The term for human’s 24 hour sleep/wake cycle
What is The Circadian Rythym
A test which predicts someone’s future performance
What is an Aptitude Test.
The association of one stimulus with another stimulus to elicit a response.
What is Classical Conditioning
Someone’s view towards a stimulus can be positively influenced by repeated exposure to that stimulus.
What is The Mere Exposure Effect
The 3 stages of the General Adaptation Syndrome
The sense of one’s body movement and position
What is The Kinesthetic Sense
Difficulty in memory retrieval due to old memories interfering with the retrieval of new ones.
What is proactive interference
A substance, agent, or process that can cause birth defects in a developing fetus.
What is a Teratogen
Having Improved performance at an action you’re already proficient at in when front of a crowd, or worse performance at an action you’re weak at when in front of a crowd.
What is Social Facilitation
The model that assumes that psychological disorders develop due to a combination of genetic vulnerability and stress
What is The Diathesis-Stress Model
What is Aphasia
The process by which synaptic connections between neurons become stronger with frequent activation.
What is Long-Term Potentiation
4 types of attachment which infants and children display.
The Big Five Theory of Personality proposes these 5 traits
What are Openness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Neuroticism, Conscientiousness
A form of psychosurgery that was popular in the mid-20th century but is rarely, if ever performed today.
What is Lobotomy
In 20 seconds, collectively name 8 Neurotransmitters. (Host start 30 second timer)
Ex. Dopamine, Serotonin, GABA, Norepinephrine, Glutamate, Endorphins, Substance p., Actelycholine. (These are actually the only ones which are necessary to know for the AP exams, neurotransmitters other than these will never be tested, but for this they can still fulfill the 8 requirement)
Our primary memory system, The Working Memory, interacts with these 3 components to process information into long term memory.
What are The Central Executive, The Phonological Loop, and The Visuospatial Sketchpad.
(Central Executive - Coordinator of cognitive processes
Phonological Loop - Processor of auditory and verbal information
Visuospatial Sketchpad - Holder and Processor of visual and spatial information)
Both the expected Erikson’s stage of Psychosocial development and the expected Piaget’s stage of cognitive development in a 9 year old.
What are Industry vs. Inferiority and Concrete Operational
What are Denial, Displacement, Reaction Formation, Sublimation, Regression, Repression, Projection, Rationalization
All disorder categories (freebie/example: Schizophrenic Spectrum Disorders)
What are Depressive Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Dissociative Disorders, Eating Disorders, Personality Disorders.
(extra, not required for points. OCD and PTSD)