AP Psych 2020 #2

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Across
  1. 3. retinal receptor cells that are concentrated near the center of the retina and that function in daylight or in well-lit conditions. Detect fine detail and give rise to color sensations
  2. 4. a response of the whole organism, involving (1) physiological arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience
  3. 8. alleviating stress using emotional, cognitive, or behavioral methods
  4. 10. retinal receptors that detect black, white, and grey; necessary for peripheral and twilight vision
  5. 11. compulsive drug craving and use, despite adverse consequences
  6. 13. in operant conditioning, an event that strengthens the behavior it follows
  7. 16. the loss of self-awareness and self-restraint occurring in group situations that foster arousal and anonymity
  8. 18. a disorder that appears in childhood and is marked by deficient communication, social interaction, and understanding of others' states of mind
  9. 19. adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard
  10. 20. psychoanalytic defense mechanism that shifts sexual or aggressive impulses toward a more acceptable or less threatening object of person, as when redirecting anger toward a safer outlet
  11. 22. false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders
  12. 24. the developing human organism from about 2 weeks after fertilization through the second month
  13. 25. a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function, how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish
  14. 26. the diminishing of a conditioned response; occurs in classical conditioning when an unconditioned stimulus does not follow a conditioned stimulus; occurs in operant conditioning when a response is no longer reinforced
  15. 27. the way an issue is posed; can significantly affect decisions and judgments
  16. 28. chemical messengers that are manufactured by the endocrine glands, travel through the bloodstream, and affect others tissues
  17. 29. in Piaget's theory, the preoperational child's difficulty taking another's point of view
  18. 30. the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation
Down
  1. 1. the light-sensitive inner surface of the eye, containing the receptor rods and cones plus layers of neurons that being the processing of visual information
  2. 2. all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing, remembering, and communicating
  3. 5. (1) in classical conditioning, the learned ability ot distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus. (2) unjustifiable negative behavior toward a group and its members
  4. 6. the proportion of variation among individuals that we can attribute to genes. May vary, depending on the range of populations and environments studied
  5. 7. a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure therapy and aversive conditioning
  6. 9. a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of the three key symptoms extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity
  7. 10. in psychoanalytic theory, the basic defense mechanism that banishes anxiety-arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness
  8. 12. (1) the inability to see a problem from a new perspective, by employing a different mental set. (2) according to Freud, a lingering focus of pleasure-seeking energies at an earlier psychosexual stage, in which conflicts were unresolved
  9. 14. our awareness of ourselves and our environment
  10. 15. a simple, automatic response to a sensory stimulus, such as the knee-jerk response
  11. 17. psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, that distort perceptions and evoke sensory images in the absence of a sensory input
  12. 21. the process by which we perceive and respond to certain events, called stressors, ther we appraise as threatening or challenging
  13. 23. a simple thinking strategy that often allows us to make judgments and solve problems efficiently; usually speedier but also more error-prone than algorithms