AP PSYCH

• Industrial-Organizational Psychologist


  Studies and improves employee behavior in the workplace to improve overall work environment
• Sleep Disorder, Amphetamines


  Amphetamines are stimulant drugs that speed up messages between the brain and body. Can be used to treat disorders like ADHD and narcolepsy
• Intelligence Tests (IQ), Standford-Binet and Wechsler


  In IQ, 100 is the mean, 100 and below is below average, 100 and above is above average, highest is 160
• Neural Chain of Events


  Receptors - Afferent (Sensory) Neurons - Interneurons - Efferent (Motor) Neurons - Effectors
• Depolarization


  Opens gated sodium channels and allows sodium ions to flow into the cell. Neurons fire during depolarization
• Rational-Emotive Behavioral Therapy


  A therapy approach that focuses on managing irrational or unhealthy thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, focuses on actions
• Robert Rescorla's Contingency Model of Classical Conditioning


  States that conditioning only occurs when one event reliably predicts another
• Alfred Binet


  Developed the first practical IQ test, Binet-Simon test assesses five cognitive factors: fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative, visual-spatial, working memory
• Parasympathetic vs Sympathetic


  • PNS: Rest and Digest
  • SNS: Flight or Fight
• Biofeedback


  A type of mind-body technique you use to control some of your body's functions like heart-rate, breathing patterns and muscle responses
• MMPI


  Standardized psychological test that evaluates personality traits and psychopathology in adults
• Frequency Distribution

  Negative = Hill to the right, Positive = Hill to the left
• Partial Reinforcement Schedules and Resistance


  Make behaviors more resistant to extinction than continuous because it strengthens the target behavior even when reinforcement is absent, to learn quickly in the beginning use continuous, then switch for retainment