AP Psychology Unit 3 Notes

Developmental psychology

Cross-sectional study

Longitudinal study

teratogens

Fetal alcohol syndrome

habituation

maturation

Critical period

adolescence

puberty

menopause

sex

gender

intersex

aggression

Relational aggression

Carol Gilligan

X chromosome

Y chromosome

testosterone

estrogens

Primary sex characteristics

Secondary sex characteristics

spermarche

menarche

role

Gender role

Sexual aggression

Gender identity

Social learning theory

Gender typing

androgyny

sexuality

asexual

Alfred Kinsey

Social script

Alice Eagly

Sexual orientation

Jean Piaget

cognition

schema

assimilation

accommodation

Sensorimotor stage

Object permanence

Preoperational stage

conservation

egocentrism

Concrete operational stage

Formal operational stage

Lev Vygotsky

scaffold

Theory of mind

language

Noam Chomsky

phoneme

morpheme

grammar

Universal grammar

Babbling stage

One-word stage

Two-word stage

Telegraphic speech

aphasia

Paul Broca

Broca’s area

Carl Wernicke

Wernicke’s area

Linguistic determinism

Benjamin Lee Whorf

Linguistic relativism

Ecological systems theory

Stranger anxiety

attachment

Harry Harlow

Margaret Harlow

imprinting

Konrad Lorenz

Mary Ainsworth

Strange situation

Secure attachment

Insecure attachment

temperament

Erik Erikson

Basic trust

self-concept

Diana Baumrind

identity

Social identity

intimacy

Emerging adulthood

Social clock

learning

Associative learning

stimulus

Respondent behavior

Operant behavior

Cognitive learning

Ivan Pavlov

Classical conditioning

John B Watson

behaviorism

Neutral stimulus (NS)

Unconditioned response (UCR)

Unconditioned stimulus (UCS)

Conditioned response (CR)

Conditioned stimulus (CS)

acquisition

Higher-order conditioning

extinction

Spontaneous recovery

generalization

discrimination

preparedness

John Garcia

Operant conditioning

B.F. Skinner

Edward L Thorndike

Law of effect

Operant chamber

reinforcement

shaping

Discriminative stimulus

Positive reinforcement

Negative reinforcement

Primary reinforcer

Conditioned reinforcer

Reinforcement schedule

Continuous reinforcement schedule

Parial (intermittent) reinforcement schedule

Fixed-ratio schedule

Variable-ratio schedule

Fixed-interval schedule

Variable-interval schedule

punishment

Instinctive draft

Robert Rescorla

Edward C Tolman

Cognitive map

Latent learning

Insight learning

Observational learning

modeling

Albert Bandura

Mirror neurons

Prosocial behavior

Antisocial behavior