AP Psychology Unit 8 Flashcards

8065266786	Yerkes-Dodson Law	Empirical relationship between arousal and performance, it dictates that performance increases with physiological or mental arousal, but only up to a point	0
8065266787	Hierarchy of Needs	Maslow's theory of the most important motivations people have	1
8065266788	Glucose	Leads to insulin release and tells body to stop seeking food centers	2
8065266789	Set Point	The point at which one's body tries maintain weight	3
8065266790	Basal Metabolic Rate	An estimate of how much energy (in calories) the body burns when at rest	4
8065266791	Sexual Response Cycle	Its four stages are excitement, plateau, orgasm and resolution	5
8065266792	Refractory Period	Resting time; occurs in both neuron firing and in human sexual response	6
8065266793	Sexual Dysfunction	Any problem relating to sex that interferes with a person's ability to perform sexually	7
8065266794	Estrogen	One of the sex hormones that is necessary for proper female reproductive functioning as well as the development of secondary female characteristics	8
8065266795	Testosterone	Promotes the growth of male sex organs and other male-specific features	9
8065266796	Emotion	A simple definition of emotion is that it is a response by a whole organism, involving (1) physical arousal, (2) expressive behaviors, and (3) conscious experience	10
8065266797	James-Lange Theory	Emotion in which physiological arousal precedes the emotion	11
8065266798	Cannon-Bard Theory	Emotion that says that a stimulus causes simultaneously physiological arousal and the subjective experience of an emotion	12
8065266799	Two-Factor Theory	States that emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive label	13
8065266800	Polygraph	Often called a "lie detector," is a machine that measures human responses to questions	14
8065266801	Facial Feedback Effect	Facial movement and expressions can influence attitude and emotional experience	15
8065266802	Health Psychology	Focuses on the more medical aspects of psychology and applies psychological principles to healing physical illness and medical problems	16
8065266803	Stress	A reaction to a stimulus that disturbs our physical or mental equilibrium, "Fight or Flight"	17
8065266804	General Adaptation Theory	Seyle's concept that the body responds to stress with alarm, resistance and exhaustion	18
8065266805	Tend and Befriend Response	Prompts humans to protect their own children, other children, people who are hurt or vulnerable, and to join humanitarian-oriented social groups that are intended to reduce human suffering	19
8065266806	Psychophysiological Illness	The brain can create illnesses, which include any stress-related physical illnesses like ulcers, headaches and blood pressure	20
8065266807	psychoneuroimmunology	Area of research that studies the interactions between mind and body and how mental and emotional stress can physically effect how the body works	21
8065266808	Lymphocytes	White blood cells that travel in the blood stream and defend the body from abnormal cells, disease-causing bacteria and viruses	22
8065266809	Coronary Heart Disease	Narrowing of the blood vessels that nourish the heart muscle, thus depriving the heart of the necessary blood to function properly	23
8065266810	Type A	Have a sense of time urgency, find it difficult to relax, and often become impatient and angry when they get delayed	24
8065266811	Type B	Better at relaxing without feeling guilty and working without becoming anxious or agitated	25
8065266812	Abraham Maslow 1908-1970	Person associated with Humanism; Contributions: hierarchy of needs-needs at a lower level dominate an individual's motivation as long as they are unsatisfied, self-actualization, transcendence	26
8065266813	William Masters 1957-1990	Male person who pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions and disorders-Worked with Virginia Johnson	27
8065266814	Virginia Johnson 1957-1971	Female person who pioneered research into the nature of human sexual response and the diagnosis and treatment of sexual dysfunctions and disorders- worked with William Masters	28
8065266815	William James 1842-1910	Person assiciated with functionalism; Contributions: studied how humans use perception to function in our environment; Studies: Pragmatism, The Meaning of Truth	29
8065266816	Stanley Schechter 1922-present	Person who had a theory on emotion; Contributions: stated that in order to experience emotions a person must be physically aroused and know the emotion before you experience it	30
8065266817	Hans Selye 1936-1992	Person who did a lot of work on Stress	31