Developmental Psychology
What is a fetus?
According to what theory, we start to shiver because our body temperature is decreasing?
Drive - Reduction Theory
A disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and/or diminished, inappropriate emotional expression.
What is schizophrenia?
A generalized belief about a group of people.
What is a stereotype?
The date and time of the AP Psychology exam in 2026
May 12th, 12:00PM
A specific window of time during development when the brain is especially sensitive to certain experiences or environmental input. During this time.. learning happens most easy
What is the critical period?
According to this concept of emotion, we must label our emotion by going through this *cognitive* process ...
What is cogntive appraisail?
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.
What is unconditional positive regard?
What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon?
Generalizable
This developmental psychologist spent his life searching for the answer to how our mind grows.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Purposely not putting effort in a group setting with hopes the group will carry the effort is ________
Social Loafing
What is one of the major causes of Dissociative Disorders?
Usually result of severe trauma or stress (childhood abuse)
The principle that frustration- the blocking of an attempt to achieve some goal- creates anger, which can generate aggression.
What is the frustration-aggression principle?
If children are included in a research study, what practice must occur in order for the study to be considered ethical?
Informed assent (parent consent included), and it should be asked continuously throughout the study.
A concept or framework that organizes and interprets information.
What is a schema?
A form of sugar that circulates in the blood and provides the major source of energy for body tissues. When its level is low, we feel hungry.
What is glucose?
Cluster A Personality Disorders are characterized by
Odd/Eccentric
The phenomenon that repeated exposure to novel stimuli increases liking of them.
What is the mere exposure effect?
What are the research methods that can be used as an answer on the AAQ?
Case Study, Naturalistic Observation, Meta-Analysis, Correlational Study, Experiment, Longitudinal Study
Agents, such as chemicals and viruses, that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal development and cause harm.
What are teratogens?
Our tendency to form judgments relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience.
What is the adaptation-level phenomenon?
What is the most common defense mechanism used by children?
Regression (suck their thumb)
Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation.
What are superordinate goals?
two out of three sources
Erik Erikson developed this psychosocial stage (crisis) about the mid-life crisis adults experience during ages 40-65?
Generativity vs. Stagnation
Which hunger hormone motivates eating?
Grehlin (think gremlins!)
What perspective of psychology analyzes the influence of environment versus genetics on abnormal behavior?
Behavior Genetics
The social psych concept where we overestimate personality and underestimate the situation when explaining someone else's behavior.
Fundamental Attribution Error
If the data in the research study is stated to be statistically significant, what is it saying about the data?
The P-Value is less than or equal to .05, which states it is VERY likely that the results of the study were influenced by the independent variable and not by a confounding or third variable.