Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Post-Winter Break HW--Get started!!!!!!!

New Unit--Disorders--Chapter 16--expect reading quizzes for all readings--come in prepared with notes

For Monday 1/5--read 532-540

Wednesday 1/7--541-549

Friday 1/9--549-558

Tues 1/13--558-566

TR 1/15--Unit Exam on Ch 16, Psychological Disorders

Monday, December 15, 2008

Review resources

The textbook website--includes quizzes for each chapter
http://www.wadsworth.com/cgi-wadsworth/course_products_wp.pl?fid=M20b&product_isbn_issn=9780495091554&discipline_number=24

Mr. Shea's flashcards from his psych classes
http://quizlet.com/subject/shea/

Another online review site with flashcards
http://www.flashcardexchange.com/tag/psychology-mamel

My site has links to each unit--there are practice exams for each of the chapters
http://www.sbhsd.k12.ca.us/~cschallhorn/psy/psyindex.html

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Monday, December 8, 2008

Fall 2008 Semester Review Terms/Phrases

AP Psychology Semester Review Fall 2008

1. Absolute thresholds
2. Abstract definition
3. Action potential
4. Adler's key views
5. Adolescence
6. Adolescence
7. Adrenal gland
8. Adulthood
9. Aggressiveness
10. Agreeableness
11. Allport
12. Ambiguous stimuli
13. Amplitude
14. Amplitude of light
15. Amygdala
16. Anterograde amnesia
17. Anxiety
18. Aphasia
19. Archetype
20. Attention and wakefulness (brain)
21. Audition
22. Audition sequences of parts
23. Authoritarian parenting
24. Authoritative parenting
25. Autonomy (personal freedom)
26. Axon terminals
27. Axon terminals
28. Basic color categories
29. Behavioral
30. Behavioral medicine
31. Behavioral signs of stress
32. Behaviorist theories
33. Behaviorist theory
34. Bf skinner
35. Biased sample
36. Biological predisposition
37. Brain damage
38. Broca's area
39. Burnout
40. Camouflage
41. Capacity to laugh at oneself
42. Cardinal traits
43. Case study
44. Causal relationship
45. Central traits
46. Cerebellum
47. Cerebral cortex
48. Character/personality/temperament
49. Childhood
50. Children’s type of home environment and effects
51. Chomsky
52. Chronic stress on the job
53. Cochlea
54. Cognitive psychologist
55. Common region
56. Common traits
57. Communication between neurons
58. Communication within a neuron
59. Comparative psychology
60. Competence in children
61. Compression
62. Cones
63. Conscientious
64. Consolidation of memory
65. Contextual memory
66. Control
67. Control group
68. Corpus callosum
69. Correlation
70. Corticoids
71. Critical thinking
72. CT scan
73. Cue-dependent forgetting
74. Decay as a cause of forgetting
75. Decay of memory traces
76. Decision-making skills
77. Defense mechanisms
78. Defining characteristics
79. Dendrites
80. Dependent variable
81. Descriptive statistics
82. Developmental medicine
83. Developmental psychologist
84. Dimensions of the "big five" factor model of personality
85. Discontinuous figures
86. Disease-prone personality
87. Displacement
88. Divided attention
89. Double-blind experiment
90. Eardrum
91. EEG
92. Ego
93. Ego ideal
94. Egocentrism
95. Eidetic imagery
96. Electroconvulsive therapy
97. Emotion-focused coping
98. Emotional signs of stress
99. Epinephrine
100. Erikson
101. Experiment
102. Experimental group
103. Experimenter effect
104. Extract information
105. Extraneous control
106. Extraneous variable
107. Extrasensory perception
108. Extroversion
109. Feeling physically, emotionally, and mentally drained
110. Fixated
111. Focused threat assessment
112. Free choice
113. Free will and self-determination
114. Frequency
115. Freud, Sigmund
116. Fully functioning person
117. Functional MRI
118. Generalize from small samples
119. Genetics and environment
120. Graphical statistics
121. Growth hormone
122. Gustation
123. Habituation
124. Hair cells
125. Hallucinations
126. Hippocampus
127. Homeopathic psychology
128. Hue
129. Human experience, problems, potentials, and ideals
130. Humanistic psychologists
131. Humanistic theories
132. Hunger and thirst (brain)
133. Hypnogogic state
134. Hypothalamus
135. Iconic memory
136. Id
137. Ideal self
138. Idealized self-image
139. Identification with peer groups
140. Incongruence
141. Independent variable
142. Infancy
143. Inferential statistics
144. Information retrieval
145. Insecure-avoidant attachment
146. Intelligence
147. Interference theory of forgetting
148. Internal motives, conflicts, and unconscious forces
149. Intra-uterine factors
150. Introversion
151. Ion potential
152. Izard, Carroll
153. James, William
154. Job stress
155. John Watson
156. Justice
157. Keys to successful aging
158. Kinesthesis
159. Kohlberg
160. Korsakoff's syndrome
161. Lack of competence
162. Learning set
163. Learning theorist
164. Legalistic parenting
165. Long-term memory
166. Long-term potentiation
167. Loudness
168. Love and acceptance
169. LTM
170. Management coping
171. Maslow, Abraham
172. Measures of central tendency
173. Measures of variability
174. Medical psychology
175. Medulla
176. Melatonin
177. Memory decay
178. Memory is an active system that does what?
179. Mode of interaction (toward, away, or against others)
180. Moments of self-actualization
181. Moral development
182. Moral dilemmas
183. Morality principle
184. Motion parallax
185. Motor cortex
186. Mri scan
187. Narcissistic
188. Necker's cube
189. Negative correlation
190. Neonatal stage of the growth sequence
191. Neural circuits
192. Neuroticism
193. Neurotransmitters
194. Newborn infants -characteristics
195. Nirvana
196. Normal distribution
197. Occipital lobes
198. Olfaction
199. Openness to experience
200. Operational definition
201. Ossicles
202. Overly permissive parenting
203. Patterns of physical development from conception to death
204. Pavlov, Ivan
205. Peak experiences
206. Pearson r correlation coefficient
207. People's expectations
208. Perceived level of control
209. Perception of meaningful patterns
210. Perceptual set
211. Perceptual thresholds
212. Persona (or "mask")
213. Personality psychology
214. Personality traits
215. Phosphenes
216. Physical development
217. Physical signs of stress
218. Physiological development
219. Physiological psychologist
220. Piaget's four cognitive stages
221. Pineal gland
222. Pitch
223. Pituitary gland
224. Placebos
225. Pleasure and punishment (brain)
226. Pleasure principle
227. Positive correlation
228. Preoperational stage
229. Primary appraisal
230. Problem-focused coping
231. Problem-focused coping
232. Projection
233. Psychoanalytic theory
234. Psychodynamic
235. Psychodynamic theories
236. Psychologist studying sensation and perception
237. Psychosomatic disorder
238. Pureness of color
239. Random assignment
240. Range
241. Rarefaction
242. Reaction formation
243. Real self
244. Reality principle
245. Recall
246. Receptor sites
247. Recognition
248. Redintegration
249. Relearning
250. Repetition of stimuli without variation
251. Representative sample
252. Repression
253. Repression
254. Resting discharge
255. Reticular activating system
256. Reticular formation (rf)
257. Retinal disparity
258. Retrieval of stored memory
259. Retroactive inhibition
260. Retrograde amnesia
261. Reversibility (piaget)
262. Rods
263. Rogers
264. Rorschach inkblots
265. Secondary appraisal
266. Secondary risk factors
267. Selective attention
268. Self acceptance
269. Self-actualizers
270. Self-concept
271. Self-esteem
272. Self-worth
273. Seligman
274. Sensation and perception
275. Sense of displacement
276. Sense of identity
277. Sensitive periods
278. Sensory and perceptual psychologist
279. Sensory conflict theory
280. Sensory localizations
281. Sensory memory
282. Sensory systems
283. Sensory systems and limits of detection
284. Separation anxiety
285. Serial position effect
286. Sex, rage, and emotion (brain)
287. Short-term memory
288. Social anxiety
289. Social learning theories
290. Social psychologist
291. Social referencing
292. Somatosensory cortex
293. Source traits
294. Stability
295. Stable enduring characteristics
296. Standard deviation
297. State of sublimation
298. State-dependent learning
299. Stereocilia
300. Stimulus and response connections determine behavior
301. STM
302. Stress
303. Style of caregiving of mothers
304. Style of life
305. Subject replication
306. Sublimation
307. Superego
308. Superiority
309. Suppression
310. Survey guidelines
311. Synapse
312. Synaptic vesicles
313. Telegraphic readiness
314. Temperament
315. Temperance
316. The age of reason
317. Thyroid gland
318. Tip-of-the-tongue phenomenon
319. Trait
320. Trait theory
321. Transcendence
322. Transcendental state
323. Transducer limits
324. Trichromatic theory of color vision
325. Types of rods
326. Unconscious fear
327. Unconscious forces within one's psyche
328. Use of rewards and punishments to shape behavior
329. Vestibular system
330. View of human nature
331. Vision
332. Vision sequence of parts
333. Visual association area
334. Visual images and process
335. Visual receptors
336. Watson, john
337. Well-being and life satisfaction
338. Wernicke's are
339. Why is it important to study psychology?
340. Wilhelm Wundt
341. Z-score