5 Steps to a 5 AP Psychology, 2014-2015 Edition

dents high in this need attribute success to their own ability, and attribute failure to lack of effort. Some people fear succes ...

positive/negative quality. The greater the arousal, the more intense the emotion. Fear, anger, happiness, sadness, surprise, and ...

experience the first emotion on repeated occasions, the opposing emotion becomes stronger and the first emotion becomes weaker, ...

death of a spouse receives the highest number of points at 100 and getting married receives 50. According to Holmes and Rahe, th ...

Imprinting is (A) the adaptive response of an infant when its mother leaves a room (B) a maladaptive response of anxiety by an ...

9.Adit really likes the appearance of the Chevy Blazer his friend is selling, but knows he should be more conservative with his ...

B—Incentive theory discusses both the primary motives, such as hunger and sex, that push behavior, and the secondary motives, l ...

Drive reduction theory—focuses on internal states of tension, such as hunger, that motivate us to pursue actions that reduce th ...

Masters and Johnson described a pattern of four stages in the biological sexual response cycle:sexual arousal, plateau, orgasm, ...

Opponent-process theory—following a strong emotion, an opposing emotion counters the first emotion, lessening the experience of ...

 163 Developmental Psychology IN THIS CHAPTER Summary:From the womb to the tomb, developmental psychologists are interested in ...

Key Issues in Development Nature vs. Nurture For thousands of years, philosophers and psychologists took sides in the nature ver ...

studied throughout their lives, providing important information about changes in intellectual functioning across the lifespan. L ...

of the three different layers; the forming individual is now considered an embryo.During the embryonic period from the third thr ...

on the cheek and then trying to put the stimulus into his or her mouth. What touches the new- born’s cheek is frequently a nippl ...

voice in males, and growth of pubic hair and underarm hair in both. Girls begin their growth spurt about two years before their ...

permanence—that objects continue to exist even when out of sight—to Piaget seemed to develop suddenly between 8 and 10 months. P ...

and gradual growth (continuity) in intellectual functioning. Vygotsky thought that development proceeds mainly from the outside ...

Some people who are in the formal operational stage of cognitive development progress to Kohlberg’s third or postconventionalle ...

when their mothers returned after an absence, they were happy to see them and receptive to their contact, displaying secure atta ...