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obedience to authority
-Studies of obedience by Stanley Milgram.
Milgram told participants they would be
participating in a study of the effects of punishment
on learning. Their task was to administer electric
shock to a "learner," but in reality, the "learner"
was a confederate. Found that 65% of participants
could be coaxed to deliver every level of shock
-Milgram may have found high obedience because
his participants were volunteers
-Raised ethical issues. To ensure that there are no
long-lasting effects, participants were debriefed
Sexology
The scientific study of sex, especially of sexual
dysfunctions.
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Philip Zimbardo
Conducted the famous Stanford Prison
experiment. It was conducted to study the power
of social roles to influence people's behavior. It
proved people's behavior depends to a large
extent on the roles that are asked to play
mere exposure
the phenomenon by which the greater the
exposure we have to a given stimulus, the more
we like it
suicidal ideation
Thoughts of hurting or killing oneself. Has thoughts
of hurting or killing self, but may or may not be
planning to act on these thoughts. (Aaron Beck)
double slit experiment
Demonstrates the inseperability of the wave and
particle natures of light. It proved how waves
diffract around an object, and through destructive
and constructive interference create black and
white patterns of light. Black being the destructive
interference and the more bright the whites are the
more constructive interference there was.
(Thomas Young)
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inferiority complex
Adler's conception of a basic feeling of inadequacy
stemming from childhood experiences, a sense of
personal inferiority arising from CONFLICT
between the desire to be noticed and the fear of
being humiliated
Alfred Adler
Neo-Freudian who thought social tensions were
more important than sexual tensions in the
development of personality, Developed the
inferiority inferiority/ superiority complexes. He
would have said that people developed their
personalitys because they didn't want to be
inferior. Actually excluded from the Vienna School
of thought by Freud for this.
Mary Ainsworth
A developmental psychologist who compared
effects of maternal separation, and devised
patterns of attachment; Used "The Strange
Situation"-observation of parent/child attachment
and vivided the attachments into 3 broad
categories (Secure 66%, Avoidant 22%, and
Anxious/Ambivalent/Resistant 11%)
The strange situation
An observational measure of infant attachment
that requires the infant to move through a series of
introducions, separations, and reunions with the
caregiver and an adult stranger in a prescribed
order used by Mary Ainsworth. Also called the
STRANGER PARADIGM.
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AP PSYCHOLOGY
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Midterm！List 10 sat vocabulary AP Psychology 2026 Exam Review SAT PR
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Terms in this set (1254)
obedience to authority
-Studies of obedience by Stanley Milgram.
Milgram told participants they would be
participating in a study of the effects of punishment
on learning. Their task was to administer electric
shock to a "learner," but in reality, the "learner"
was a confederate. Found that 65% of participants
could be coaxed to deliver every level of shock
-Milgram may have found high obedience because
his participants were volunteers
-Raised ethical issues. To ensure that there are no
long-lasting effects, participants were debriefed
Sexology
The scientific study of sex, especially of sexual
dysfunctions.
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Philip Zimbardo
Conducted the famous Stanford Prison
experiment. It was conducted to study the power
of social roles to influence people's behavior. It
proved people's behavior depends to a large
extent on the roles that are asked to play
mere exposure
the phenomenon by which the greater the
exposure we have to a given stimulus, the more
we like it
suicidal ideation
Thoughts of hurting or killing oneself. Has thoughts
of hurting or killing self, but may or may not be
planning to act on these thoughts. (Aaron Beck)
double slit experiment
Demonstrates the inseperability of the wave and
particle natures of light. It proved how waves
diffract around an object, and through destructive
and constructive interference create black and
white patterns of light. Black being the destructive
interference and the more bright the whites are the
more constructive interference there was.
(Thomas Young)
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inferiority complex
Adler's conception of a basic feeling of inadequacy
stemming from childhood experiences, a sense of
personal inferiority arising from CONFLICT
between the desire to be noticed and the fear of
being humiliated
Alfred Adler
Neo-Freudian who thought social tensions were
more important than sexual tensions in the
development of personality, Developed the
inferiority inferiority/ superiority complexes. He
would have said that people developed their
personalitys because they didn't want to be
inferior. Actually excluded from the Vienna School
of thought by Freud for this.
Mary Ainsworth
A developmental psychologist who compared
effects of maternal separation, and devised
patterns of attachment; Used "The Strange
Situation"-observation of parent/child attachment
and vivided the attachments into 3 broad
categories (Secure 66%, Avoidant 22%, and
Anxious/Ambivalent/Resistant 11%)
The strange situation
An observational measure of infant attachment
that requires the infant to move through a series of
introducions, separations, and reunions with the
caregiver and an adult stranger in a prescribed
order used by Mary Ainsworth. Also called the
STRANGER PARADIGM.
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