Psychology Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Unit 1: AP Psychology Questions & Answers • Abraham Maslow - ANSWER: Humanistic psychologist known for his "Hierarchy of Needs" and the concept of "self-actualization" • applied research - ANSWER: research conducted in order to solve practical problems • Aristotle - ANSWER: ancient Greek philosopher who developed theories of sensation, perception, cognition, memory, problems olving, and ethics • assignment - ANSWER: the process by which participants are put into a group, exper...

Carl Rogers__________ argues that societies invent the concept of mental illness so that they can control people whose unusual patterns of functioning threaten the social order. experimentA research procedure in which a variable is manipulated and the manipulation's effect on another variable is observed is known as a(n): psychogenicThe ___________ perspective views the chief causes of abnormal functioning as psychological. epidemiological studiesStudies that reveal the incidence and p...

psychologythe study of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors healththe condition/state of one's mind, body, and spirit illnessthe experience of sickness or lack of well-being in one's body or mind health psychologythe psychology plays in any physical health (colds, cancer, HIV, etc.) biomedical model(1) diseases come from outside of the body, causing physical changes. (2) people are not seen as responsible for their illnesses because they are biological (3) illnesses should be treated by ...

DSM-5 Criteria of Anorexia NervosaDoesn't eat enough food to hold a healthy weight and result is significant weight loss 1) Individual purposely takes in too little nourishment, resulting in body weight that is very low and below that of other people of similar age and gender (BMI <18.5) 2) Fear of gaining weight; seeks to prevent weight gain (cant be too thin) 3) Distorted body image, inappropriate emphasis on weight or shape in judgments of themselves, fails to appreciate the seri...

Chapter3: Openstax Psychology Question & Answer • adrenal glands - ANSWER: a pair of endocrine glands that sit just above the kidneys and secrete hormones (epinephrine and norepinephrine) that help arouse the body in times of stress. • all or none law - ANSWER: the rule that neurons are either on or off • Allele - ANSWER: Specific forms of a gene • Angonist - ANSWER: molecules similar enouch to a neurotransmitter that bind to its receptor and mimic its effects (example: morphine a...

Counseling psychology branch of psychology that is concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormal behavior. Focus more on everyday style of issues. Clinical psychology branch of psychology that has as its primary focus the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of abnormal behavior. Psychological assessment and psychotherapy. Focus research and treatment efforts on the more severe forms of behavior pathology Premorbid functioning level of psychological and physical ...

Sensation and Perception: OpenStax Psychology 5 o absolute threshold - ANSWER: minimum amount of stimulus energy that must be present for the stimulus to be detected 50% of the time o afterimage - ANSWER: continuation of a visual sensation after removal of the stimulus o amplitude - ANSWER: height of a wave o basilar membrane - ANSWER: thin strip of tissue within the cochlea that contains the hair cells which serve as the sensory receptors for the auditory system o binocular cue - ANSWE...

psychology the scientific study of behaviour, thought, and experience, and how they can be affected by physical, mental, social and environmental factors scientific method a way of learning about the world through collecting observations, developing theories to explain them, and using the theories to make predictions hypothesis a testable prediction about processes that can be observed and measured falsifiable the hypothesis is precise enough that it could be proven false pseudoscience a...

EmpiricismThe idea that knowledge comes from experience and observational data DualismThe mind and body are separate entities Behavioral geneticsHow does genetic variation affect behavior? Behavioral psychologyWhich specific parts of the brain produce behaviors? Applied psychologyThe use of principals in order to solve a problem Applied practiceThe actual application to the problem to come up with a solution Translational researchBasic research to applied practice

Unit 7: Cognition- Openstax psychology Q&A • acoustic encoding - ANSWER: the encoding of sound, especially the sound of words • Alfred Binet and Theodore Simon - ANSWER: Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale/mental age • Algorithm - ANSWER: problem-solving strategy characterized by a specific set of instructions • animal cognition - ANSWER: the study of animal learning, memory, thinking, and language • aptitude test - ANSWER: a test designed to predict a person's future performance; ...