Barrons AP Psychology 7th edition

Table 14.1. How to Use Compliance Strategies to Get Your Teacher to Postpone a Test by One Day Compliance ...

(A) synaptic peptides (B) inhibitory neurotransmitters (C) adrenaline-type exciters (D) excitatory neurotransmitters (E) po ...

intellectual progress. Of course, since the children were selected randomly, they did not differ from ...

are released that cross the synapse to the next cell. (B) A chemical change occurs within the cell, the ch ...

Researchers have found that people evidence a bias toward thinking that bad things happen to bad peop ...

(C) hypothalamus and cerebellum (D) cerebellum and medulla (E) thalamus and motor cortex In most people, which o ...

TIP Students have difficulty distinguishing between prejudice and discrimination. Remember, the former is an atti ...

Sensation and Perception KEY TERMS Transduction Sensory adaptation Sensory habituation (also called perceptual adaptat ...

Another major area of study for social psychologists is aggression and antisocial behavior. Psychologists distin ...

Kinesthetic sense Absolute threshold Subliminal messages Difference threshold Weber’s law Signal detection theory Top-do ...

looking people are perceived as having all sorts of positive attributes including better personalities and grea ...

cocktail-party phenomenon). These processes are our only way to get information about the ...

and delivered all the possible shocks. Milgram replicated his study with a number of interesting twists. He foun ...

lens, the image is flipped upside down and inverted. The focused inverted image projects on the retina, whic ...

Table 14.3. Famous Social Psychology Experiments Experimenter Topic Major Finding LaPiere Attitudes Attitudes don’t ...

Figure 4.1. Cross section of the eye. You might have guessed that this is a simplified version of this ...

dress. Within groups is often a set of specific roles. On a baseball team, for instance, the players have ...

TRICHROMATIC THEORY Competing theories exist about how and why we see color. The oldest and ...

PRACTICE QUESTIONS Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five su ...

move and transduction occurs. The organ of Corti fires, and these impulses are transmitted to the brain via ...