AP psych review part 2

a boy will sometimes react against the strong sexual attraction that he feels toward girls by becoming a confirmed "woman hater"

• displacement

• regression

• reaction formation

• projection

David Walters recently lost his executive position in a large corporation. Rather than seek a new job, David finds comfort and escape through drinking, as alcohol helps him forget details of being fired.

• repression

• displacement

• reaction formation

• projection

each year at Trinidad High, students are given new lockers with new locker combinations. On the first day of her sophomore year, Lena accidentally tries to input her old freshman locker combination instead of her new one.

• anterograde amnesia

• retrograde amnesia

• retroactive interference

• proactive interference

parents might be reassured to know that children who pull wings off flies and jab pins in the dog may eventually find their niche in the areas of dentistry or surgery.

• sublimation

• projection

• rationalization

• regression

This year Greg can sit at the senior tables because he is a senior. He waited until his senior year to sit at those tables because he did not want to upset any seniors. Greg showed:

• conformity

• normative social influence

• peripheral route persuasion

• informational social influence

interpreting our new experiences in terms of our existing schemas.

• schema

• assimilation

• accommodation

• concept

after a neuron fires an action potential it pauses for a short period to recharge itself to fire again.

• threshold

• all-or-none response

• refractory period

• depolarization

positive ions enter the neuron

• depolarization

• hyperpolarization

• action potential

• intensity

negative ions enter the neuron, making it less prone to firing an action potential

• depolarization

• threshold

• sodium-potassium pumps

• hyperpolarization

neurotransmitters in the synapse are reabsorbed into the sending neurons through the process of_______

• action potential

• reuptake

• lock and key mechanism

• agonists