Vocab - 1 Flashcards
Developed cognitive theory (mental behaviors, way we think)
Patterns in thinking that correlate w/ symptoms of depression
Depressed people of unaware negative automatic thoughts they habitually form
Aaron Beck’s View of Depression
Minimum amount of physical energy needed to produce reliable sensory experience
Operationally defined as the stimulus level at which a sensory signal is detected half the time
Absolute Threshold (Sensation and Perception)
Achievement (measures what has already been acquired)
Aptitude (predicts future performance or ability) ex: ASVB SAT
Achievement vs. Aptitude Test (intelligence)
Action potential =nerve impulse activated w/in neuron that travels down axon and causes neurotransmitters to be released into synapse
Resting Potential = polarization of cellular fluid w/in neuron, which provides capability to produce an action potential
Action vs. Resting Potential (biology and behavior)
Keenness or sharpness of vision
Acuity (sensation and perception)
Developed by Mary Ainsworth; Goal: provide environment that would create motivation to explore and seek in a baby; baby put in room with unfamiliar toys and stuff and mom leaves; three major responses: anxious/avoidant, securely attached, anxious resistant
Ainsworth Strange Situation (child development)
Theory of social learning and Bobo Doll experiment; children learn aggression by observing…
Albert Bandura (learning)
Therapy based on view that irrational beliefs (shoulda and musts) lead to emotional distress and caused people to engage in self-defeating behaviors
- must have everyone’s approval
Albert Ellis - Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) (methods of therapy/personality
Feeling of inferiority is derived from physical disability or faulty relationships
Inferiority complex is a need to validate one’s self by oneself
-need for individual accomplishment
Alfred Adler - inferiority complex (personality)
The size of action potential is not affected by increases in intensity of stimulation beyond threshold level.
All-or-nothing Law (all-or-none) of neural firing (biology and behavior)
Pro-social behaviors a person carries out w/out considering his/her own safety or interests
Altruism (social psychology)
Organization of psychologists from all over the world
American Psychological Association (APA) (history and perspectives)
Failure of memory caused by physical injury, disease, drug use, or psychological trauma
Amnesia (memory)
