Developmental Psychology
What is a fetus?
What is asexual?
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 2025
May 16th, 12:00PM
An optimal period early in the life of an organism when exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces normal development.
What is the critical period?
What is narcissism?
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?
The most mentioned psychologist in AP Psychology.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
This developmental psychologist spent his life searching for the answer to how our mind grows.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The deliberate social exclusion of individuals or groups.
What is ostracism?
Compulsive fretting; overthinking our problems and their causes.
What is rumination?
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?
partners that cohabitate prior to marriage find a strong correlation of marital _________
What is instability?
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?
DAILY DOUBLE
a mental illness where individuals experience excessive thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to one or more physical symptoms, regardless of whether a medical condition explains them
What is somatic symptom disorder?
the process of forming impressions of others
Person perception
How long was the Stanford Prison Experiment supposed to last?
2 weeks
when grammatical rules are incorrectly generalized to irregular cases where they do not apply
Overregularizations
What is the TAT
Thematic Apperception Test
a test that may reveal personal motives and traits
indicates the percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder
concordance rate
involves liking those who show that they like us
reciprocity
what is ASD
Autism Spectrum Disorder
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?
The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change.
What is epigenetics?
Shared goals that override differences among people and require their cooperation.
What are superordinate goals?
The name of the man that ran the SPE
Phillip Zimbardo