Biology, Sensation, & Perception
Theory that the red-green, yellow-blue, white-black cones/rods enable color vision.
What is the opponent process theory?
Airline frequent flyer programs that reward customers with a free flight after every 25,000 miles of travel use this kind of reinforcement schedule.
What is Fixed Ratio?
Rooting, sucking, swallowing, grasping, and stepping are examples of
What are reflexes?
This hormone signals the brain to reduce appetite
What is leptin?
Ravi brushes his teeth 18 times a day. Each time, he uses exactly 83 strokes up and 83 strokes down. After he eats, he must brush twice with two different brands of toothpaste. Ravi most likely suffers from
What is OCD?
information processing guided by higher-level mental processes, as when we construct perceptions drawing on our experience and expectations
What is top-down processing?
If children get attention from their parents for doing cartwheels, they will repeat the trick in anticipation of more attention. This best illustrates this type of conditioning.
What is operant conditioning?
Discovered that contact comfort is more important than feeding via monkeys and surrogate mothers.
Who is Harry Harlow?
This theory explains a thirsty person, drinking water to take care of our need for water.
What is drive-reduction theory?
Disorder when a person manifests a psychological problem through a physiological symptom
What is somatoform disorder?
Someone trying to add a long series of three digit numbers is probably experiencing increased brain waves and bloodflow to which brain structure?
What is the left hemisphere?
Past AP Psych takers who have studied the material 15 minutes a day for 8 days have reported higher scores than those who cram in the days leading up to the exam, watching Mr. Sinn videos while they're in the shower at 2x speed. This illustrates the value of:
What is the spacing effect?
What is the fundamental attribution error?
After helping at the scene of a horrific automobile accident, Margo collapses and also requires medical attention. Margo is most likely in which stage of the general adaptation syndrome?
What is exhaustion?
Therapy developed by Carl Rogers: techniques include active listening and patient growth
What is client-centered therapy?
Some man-made drugs, such as opiates, have molecular structures similar to the chemicals found in the body's neurotransmitters. Flooding the brain with these man-made drugs will likely cause
What is a decrease in concentrations of the naturally occurring chemical?
Student X is studying for their APUSH midterm by listening to Adam Norris videos at 2x speed as they fall asleep. However, the next day, they feel like they didn't retain anything meaningful, illustrating that the retention of information requires this kind of processing:
What is effortful processing?
Argued that cognitive development was also a social process, necessary for an individual to bond with others
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
This theory argues that physiological arousal and emotion occur simultaneously
What is the Cannon-Bard theory?
After an argument with your little brother, you slam the door to your bedroom instead of hitting him, illustrating this defense mechanism:
What is sublimation?
Tremors experienced by Michael J. Fox and others who suffer from Parkinson's disease are the result of an undersupply of this major inhibitory neurotransmitter:
What is dopamine?
If you get violently ill a couple of hours after eating contaminated food, you will probably develop an aversion to the taste of that food but not to the sight of the restaurant where you ate or to the sound of the music you heard there. This best illustrates that associative learning is constrained by
What are biological predispositions?
Mark attended a public rally for a political candidate with whom he disagreed an several topics. The speaker was energetic and made eye contact with Mark several times while talking. Afterwards, Mark began thinking that maybe he had unfairly judged the candidate. Mark's opinion change seems to be resulting from incidental cues and is known as
What is peripheral route persuasion?
Ten-year-old Vito tells his friend, “When you notice that your knees knock, your hands sweat, and your stomach is in knots, then you really get scared.” This statement best illustrates this theory:
What is the James-Lange theory?
Because she is often criticized by her parents, Sally mistrusts other people and treats them with hostility, which leads to their rejection of her. This cycle of rejection, mistrust, hostility, and further rejection illustrates this phenomenon.
What is reciprocal determinism?