AP Psychology Unit Seven Vocabulary

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Motivation

a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior.

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Instinct

a complex behavior that is rigidly patterned throughout a species and is unlearned.

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Drive-Reduction Theory

the idea that a physiological need creates an aroused tension state (a drive) that motivates an organism to satisfy the need.

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Homeostasis

a tendency to maintain a balanced or constant internal state; the regulation of any aspect of body chemistry, such as blood glucose, around a particular level.

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Incentive

a positive or negative environmental stimulus that motivates behavior

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Yerkes-Dodson Law

the principle that performance increases with arousal only up to a point, beyond which performance decreases.

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Hierarchy of Needs

Maslow’s pyramid of human needs, beginning at the base with physiological needs that must first be satisfied before higher-level safety needs and then psychological needs become active.

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Glucose

the 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 hunger.

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Set Point

the point at which an individual’s “weight thermostat” is supposedly set. When the body falls below this weight, an increase in hunger and a lowered metabolic rate may act to restore the lost weight.

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Basal Metabolic Rate

the body’s resting rate of energy expenditure.

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Sexual Response Cycle

the four stages of sexual responding described by Masters and Johnson—excitement, plateau, orgasm, and resolution.

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Refractory Period

a resting period after orgasm, during which a man cannot achieve another orgasm

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Sexual Dysfunction

a problem that consistently impairs sexual arousal or functioning.

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Estrogen

sex hormones, such as estradiol, secreted in greater amounts by females than males and contributing to female sex characteristics. In nonhuman female mammals, estrogen levels peak during ovulation, promoting sexual receptivity.

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Testosterone

the most important of the male sex hormones. Both male and females have it, but the additional testosterone in males stimulates the growth of the male sex organs in the fetus and the development of the male sex characteristics during puberty.

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Emotion

a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience.

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James-Lange Theory

the theory that our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli.

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Cannon-Bard Theory

the theory that an emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers (1) physiological responses and (2) the subjective experience of emotion.

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Two-Factor Theory

the Schachter-Singer theory that to experience emotion one must (1) be physically aroused and (2) cognitively label the arousal.

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Facial Feedback Effect

the effect of facial expressions on experienced emotions, as when a facial expression of anger or happiness intensifies feelings of anger or happiness.

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Health Psychology

a subfield of psychology that provides psychology’s contribution to behavioral medicine.

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Stress

the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, that we appraise as threatening or challenging.

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General Adaptation Syndrome (GAS)

Selye’s concept of the body’s adaptive response to stress in three phases -- alarm, resistance, exhaustion.

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Tend And Befriend Response

under stress, people (especially women) often provide support to others (tend) and bond with and seek support from others (befriend).

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Psychophysiological Illness

literally, “mind-body” illness; any stress-related physical illness, such as hypertension and some headaches.

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Psychoneuroimmunology

the study of how psychological, neural, and endocrine processes together affect the immune system and resulting health.

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Lymphocytes

the two types of white blood cells that are part of the body’s immune system; B lymphocytes form in the bone marrow and release antibodies that fight bacterial infections; T lymphocytes form in the thymus and other lymphatic tissue and attack cancer cells, viruses, and foreign substances.

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Coronary Heart Disease

the clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle; the leading cause of death in North America.

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Type A

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for competitive, hard-driving, impatient, verbally aggressive, and anger-prone people.

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Type B

Friedman and Rosenman’s term for easygoing, relaxed people.

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Personality

an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting.

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Free Association

in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.

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Unconscious

according to Freud, a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories. According to contemporary psychologists, information processing which we are unaware.

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Id

a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud, strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives. The id operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.

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Ego

the largely conscious, “executive” part of personality that, according to Freud, mediates among the demands of the id, supereo, and reality. The ego operates on the reality principle, satisfying the id’s desires in ways that will realistically bring pleasure rather than pain.

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Superego

the part of the personality that, according to Freud, represents the internalized ideals and provides standards for judgment (the conscience) and for future aspirations.

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Psychosexual Stage

the childhood stages of development, (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital) during which, according to Freud, the id’s pleasure-seeking energies focus on distinct erogenous zones.

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Oedipus Complex

according to Freud, a boy’s sexual desires toward his mother and feelings of jealousy and hatred for the rival father.

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Identification

the process by which, according to Freud, children incorporate their parent’s values into their developing superegos.

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Fixation

according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual state, in which conflicts were unresolved.

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Defense Mechanisms

in psychoanalytic theory, the ego’s protective methods of reducing anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality.

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Repression

in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness.

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Collective Unconscious

Carl Jung’s concept of a shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species’ history.

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Projective Test

a personality test, such as the Rorschach or TAT, that provides ambiguous stimuli designed to trigger projection of one’s inner dynamics.

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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)

a projective test in which people express their inner feelings and interests through the stories they make up about ambiguous scenes.

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Rorschach Inkblot Test

the most widely used projective test, a set of 10 inkblots, designed by Hermann Rorschach, seeks to identify people’s inner feelings by analyzing their interpretations of the blots.

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False Consensus Effect

the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and our behaviors.

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Terror-Management Theory

a theory of death-related anxiety; explores people’s emotional and behavioral responses to reminders of their impending death.

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Self-Actualization

according to Maslow, one of the ultimate psychological needs that arises after basic physical and psychological needs are met and self-esteem is achieved; the motivation to fulfill one’s potential.

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Unconditional Positive Regard

according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person.

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Self-Concept

all our thoughts and feelings about ourselves, in answer to the question “Who am I?”

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Trait

a characteristic pattern of behavior or a disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories and peer reports.

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Personality Inventory

a questionnaire (often true-false or agree-disagree items) on which people respond to items designed to gauge a wide range of feelings and behaviors; used to assess selected personality traits.

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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)

the most widely researched and clinically used of all personality tests. Originally developed to identify emotional disorders (still considered its most appropriate use), this test is now used for many other purposes.

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Empirically Derived Test

a test (such as the MMPI) developed by testing a pool of items and then selecting those that discriminate between groups.

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Reciprocal Determinism

the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment.

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Positive Psychology

the scientific study of optimal human functioning; aims to discover and promote strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

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Self

in contemporary psychology, assumed to be the center of personality, the organizer of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

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Spotlight Effect

overestimating others noticing and evaluating our appearance, performance, and blunders (as if we presume a spotlight shines on us).

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Self-Esteem

one’s feelings of high or low self-worth.

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Self-Efficacy

one’s sense of competence and effectiveness.

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Self-Serving Bias

a readiness to perceive oneself favorably.

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Narcissism

excessive self-love and self-absorption.

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Individualism

giving priority to one’s own goals over group goals and defining one’s identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications.

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Collectivism

giving priority to the goals of one’s group (often one’s extended family or work group) and defining one’s identity accordingly.

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