Unit 1 (Biology)
This division of the Nervous System is characterized by increased heart rate, dilation of the pupils, and decreased digestion.
What is the Sympathetic Nervous System?
This type of memory is being used right now, as you attempt to remember significant facts or details surrounding AP Psychology.
What is Semantic Memory?
This principle proposes that when an action is followed by a positive response, it is more likely to occur, and when a negative response follows, it is less likely to occur.
What is the Law of Effect?
Bandura gave us the foundation for this style of learning with the Bobo Doll Experiment.
What is Observational (Or Social) Learning?
Flat Affect, decreased interest, and loss of pleasure in daily activities all fall under this category of schizophrenic symptoms.
What are negative symptoms?
This division of the nervous system is responsible for the sending and receiving of sensory and motor signals throughout the body.
What is the Central Nervous System?
This term refers to our ability to judge distance based on how large or small it appears in our retina.
What is relative size?
A middle-aged adult who is currently experiencing high levels of job satisfaction, in a happy emotional or romantic state, and is satisfied with their life decisions is demonstrating which virtue according to Erik Erikson?
What is generativity?
The tendency to ignore the negative qualities of those that we idolize or admire is known as this cognitive error.
What is the Halo Effect?
This disorder is characterized by its' extended periods of hypomania and depressive symptoms, though does not always require hospitalization like its' more severe counterpart.
What is Bipolar II disorder?
This dream theory proposes that dreams are a result of random neural firing and our brains interpreting that electrical stimulus?
What is the Activation-Synthesis theory?
These mental strategies, originally proposed by Freud, are coping strategies meant to protect the ego from harmful thoughts.
What are defense mechanisms?
While you may know a term or concept, it may not show that you know it until you are tested or rewarded for knowing it. This is an example of this alliterative style of learning.
What is Latent Learning?
Using facts, details and strengths of your own argument are known as this persuasive phrase.
What is the Central Route to Persuasion?
The diathesis-stress model is situated within this approach to psychology.
What is the biological approach?
This neurotransmitter has been linked specifically to schizophrenia, and agonists for this neurotransmitter are used to treat it.
What is dopamine?
This concept explains why Mr. MacKinnon is likely to use your names instead of next years' students names for the first month or two of school.
What is Proactive Interference?
While the behavioral and cognitive approaches give us the foundations for Classical and Operant Conditioning, this approach presented that there are constraints upon what we can be conditioned to do.
What is the Biological Approach?
When examining the behaviors of others, the tendency to claim that someone's behavior is due to who they are as a person, you might be committing this fallacy.
What is FAE (Fundamental Attribution Error)?
This researcher's work gave us the foundations for the study of positive psychology.
Who is Martin Seligman?
This section of the brainstem regulates autonomic functions like heart rate, breathing and other involuntary responses.
What is the medulla?
This type of encoding refers to the deep processing of information based on the meaning or application of particular terms.
What is Semantic Encoding?
In order for an individual to move from one zone to another according to Vygotsky, a knowledgeable individual must provide this building term to the individual who is learning.
What is scaffolding?
This researcher gave us the foundation for our understanding of conformity in psychology.
Who is Solomon Asch?
This cluster of personality disorders is categorized by anxious or disorganized thought patterns and behaviors.
What are Cluster C personality disorders?