AP Psychology Unit 8 Flashcards

8847438448	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
8847438449	Hierarchy of Needs	Maslow's theory of the most important motivations people have	1
8847438450	Glucose	Leads to insulin release and tells body to stop seeking food centers	2
8847438451	Set Point	The point at which one's body tries maintain weight	3
8847438452	Basal Metabolic Rate	An estimate of how much energy (in calories) the body burns when at rest	4
8847438453	Sexual Response Cycle	Its four stages are excitement, plateau, orgasm and resolution	5
8847438454	Refractory Period	Resting time; occurs in both neuron firing and in human sexual response	6
8847438455	Sexual Dysfunction	Any problem relating to sex that interferes with a person's ability to perform sexually	7
8847438456	Estrogen	One of the sex hormones that is necessary for proper female reproductive functioning as well as the development of secondary female characteristics	8
8847438457	Testosterone	Promotes the growth of male sex organs and other male-specific features	9
8847438458	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
8847438459	James-Lange Theory	Emotion in which physiological arousal precedes the emotion	11
8847438460	Cannon-Bard Theory	Emotion that says that a stimulus causes simultaneously physiological arousal and the subjective experience of an emotion	12
8847438461	Two-Factor Theory	States that emotion is based on two factors: physiological arousal and cognitive label	13
8847438462	Polygraph	Often called a "lie detector," is a machine that measures human responses to questions	14
8847438463	Facial Feedback Effect	Facial movement and expressions can influence attitude and emotional experience	15
8847438464	Health Psychology	Focuses on the more medical aspects of psychology and applies psychological principles to healing physical illness and medical problems	16
8847438465	Stress	A reaction to a stimulus that disturbs our physical or mental equilibrium, "Fight or Flight"	17
8847438467	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	18
8847438468	Psychophysiological Illness	The brain can create illnesses, which include any stress-related physical illnesses like ulcers, headaches and blood pressure	19
8847438469	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	20
8847438470	Lymphocytes	White blood cells that travel in the blood stream and defend the body from abnormal cells, disease-causing bacteria and viruses	21
8847438471	Coronary Heart Disease	Narrowing of the blood vessels that nourish the heart muscle, thus depriving the heart of the necessary blood to function properly	22
8847438472	Type A	Have a sense of time urgency, find it difficult to relax, and often become impatient and angry when they get delayed	23
8847438473	Type B	Better at relaxing without feeling guilty and working without becoming anxious or agitated	24