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Cards In This Set
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Aaron Beck's view of depression
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Due to unrealistic, negative views about the world
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Absolute Threshold
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Smallest detectable level of stimulus
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Achievement vs. Aptitude Test
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Achievement- test of developed skill or knowledgeaptitude- test that measures ability to learn, etc
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Action vs. Resting Potential
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Action potential- happens when a neuron is firedresting potential- membrane potentials w/out action potentials, synaptic potentials, etc
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Acuity- Vision
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Clarity of one's vision
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Afferent Neurons vs. Efferent Neurons
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Afferent- carry nerve impulses from receptors to the CNSefferent- transmit signals from the CNS to the effector cells
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Agonist vs. Antagonist Chemicals
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Agonist- binds to a receptor of a cell and triggers a responseantagonist- binds to a receptor of a cell and blocks responses
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Ainsworth Strange Situation (Paradigm)
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- used to observe attachment relationships between caregivers and a child
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Albert Bandura:1. Major View on Learning2. Bobo Doll Experiment
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1. Social Learning Theory: learning occurs due to imitation2. Two sets of children watched two different videos; the groups that watched adults kicking/ punching a doll did the same when in a room with the doll.
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Albert Ellis- Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)
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Focuses on uncovering irrational beliefs which may lead to unhealthy negative emotions and replacing them with more productive rational alternatives
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Alfred Adler- inferiority complex
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A feeling the one is inferior to others in some way; can arise from imagines OR actual inferiority
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Algorithm
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A precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve a problem
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All-or nothing law (all-or-none) of neural firing
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Once a neuron fires, it can only fire at full charge (no partial firing)
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Altruism
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The quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
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American Psychological Association (APA)
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Scientific and professional organization that represents psychologists in the United States
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