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Psychology In Everyday Life Unit: 2

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Unit 2: Experimenting with Psychology Asch Conformity- is a group experiment where there is a group of actors that give wrong answers and a experiment (person) to see if they go along with the group. 3 Types of Learning Social- learning Classical conditioning Operant conditioning Social Learning Albert Bandura Learning in a social situation Learn through observation and imitation The observer has to see some benefit in copying the behavior Common example of social learning come from tv commercials Bandura warned that ?children and adults acquire attitudes, emotional responses, and new styles of conduct through filmed and televised modeling Albert Bandura created the Bobo Doll experiment

7th edition Psych Wayne Weiten Ch.6 Outline

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Classical conditioning explains how a neutral stimulus can acquire the capacity to elicit a response originally evoked by another stimulus Many kinds of everyday responses are regulated through classical conditioning including phobias fears and pleasant emotional responses even physiological responses such as immune and sexual functioning respond to classical conditioning A conditioned response may be weaken and extinguished entirely when the CS is no longer paired with the UCS in some cases spontaneous recovery may occur and the extinguished response reappears after a period of nonexposure

AP Psychology Final Study Guide

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Psychology ? Eighth Edition by David G. Myers AP Psychology Final Study Guide History and Statistics 1) Validity ? the extent to which a test measures or predicts what it is supposed to. (See also content validity and predictive validity.) (p. 448) 2) Reliability ? the extent to which a test yields consistent results, as assessed by the consistency of scores on two halves of the test, on alternate forms of the test, or on retesting. (p. 448) 3) Standardization ? defining meaningful scores by comparison with the performance of a pretested standardization group. (p. 446)ontemporary psychology ? According to contemporary psychologists, the unconscious is a type of information processing of which we are unaware. (p. 597)

Main AP Psychology Topics

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2013 main ideas I. History and Approaches (2?4%) Psychology has evolved markedly since its inception as a discipline in 1879. There have been significant changes in the theories that psychologists use to explain behavior and mental processes. In addition, the methodology of psychological research has expanded to include a diversity of approaches to data gathering. students should be able to do the following: ? Recognize how philosophical perspectives shaped the development of psychological thought. ? Describe and compare different theoretical approaches in explaining behavior: ? structuralism, functionalism, and behaviorism in the early years; ? Gestalt, psychoanalytic/psychodynamic, and humanism emerging later;

AP Biology Notes on Animal Behavior

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Unit 16 - Animal Behavior List of Terms Fixed Action Pattern (FAP): innate, highly stereotypic behavior, that must be finished even if it is utterly useless. Initiated by external stimuli called sign stimuli e.g. stickleback fish attack other males (which have a red belly) who enter their territory if the stimuli are exchanged between the same species, it?s called a releaser Migration Animals migrate in response to external stimuli e.g. changes in day length, precipitation, temperature environment also gives cues for navigation Some animals track their position relative to sun Animals monitor changes in position of sun against internal circadian clock to tell where they are Nocturnal animals use the North star, which has a fixed position Pigeons use the magnetic field of the earth

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