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Psychology
Chapter 1-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does "mental process" mean? | Covert/Internal activity of our minds |
| If we are interested in why twins have different personalities, what is our goal? | Explanation |
| If we want to test for potential employees, what is our goal? | Prediction |
| Which theorist based his perspective on psychology on the work of Darwin? | William James |
| "The Whole is greater than the sum of its parts" goes with whose perspective? | Gestalt |
| What was the focus of Watson's behaviorism? | Focus on observable behavior & ignore consciousness |
| What does humanism focus on? | Human potential, free will, & self-actualization |
| What theorist is most associated with introspection? | William Wundt |
| Sigmund Freud found what type of psychology? | Psychoanalysis |
| What does cognitive psychology focus on? | memory, intelligence, perception, learning |
| What does evolutionary perspective of psychology focus on? | Biological bases for universal mental characteristics (why we lie, mate selection, fear, enjoyment of things) |
| Which psychological professional has the broadest area of interests? | Psychologist |
| If someone suffers a stroke and has If someone suffers from a stroke and gets brain damage as a result, which psychological professional would be best suited for this patient? | Psychiatrist |
| What does counseling provide, and what level of severity does it usually limit its practice to? | Diagnosis- might need more professional help. a Psychiatrist |
| A tentative explanation/educated guess | Hypothesis |
| Advantage of lab observation | controlled environment & specialized equipment |
| What is participant observation? | being part of an event |
| Main advantage of Case study? | large amount of detail |
| In psychological research, what is the population? | everyone that you're interested in |
| What is correlation? | relationship between two variables |
| What is a reinforcement? | anything that keeps the action to occur again |
| what is informed consent? | Permission |
| Does authority make all claims true? | No |
| Cognitive psychologists are concerned with the scientific study of…? | Mental processes |
| What is naturalistic observation? | watching animals/humans behave in their natural habitat |
| What is a placebo? | fake treatment |
| What is psychology? | Applied science; the science of behavior and mental processes, has different goals to explain why people do what they do |
| What part of the neuron sends information to other cells? | Axon |
| Neuron make up ____% of the brain. | 10 |
| What is the neurilemma? or "Schann's membrane" | protects the axons & damage can be repaired due to this |
| What is the sympathetic nervous system also called? | flight or flight system |
| Where are the sodium ions located when a neuron is in the resting potential state? | outside |
| How does one neuron communicate with another neuron? | Chemicals flows across gaps |
| What is an endorphin? | Inhibitory neural regulators; involved in pain relief |
| What is the somatic nervous system? | Voluntary; the one that makes you move your body |
| What are motor neurons? | Carry messages from the spinal cord to the muscles and glands |
| What happens when your sympathetic nervous system is activated? | Flight-or-flight- response; digestive system slows down |
| Growth disorder can result due to problems in ______ | pituitary gland |
| What does the parasympathetic nervous system control? | everyday functions |
| Thick band of tissue that connects the left and right hemisphere | Corpus Callosum |
| Where is melatonin secreted? | Pennial Gland |
| When are MRI scans not recommended? | If you got metal in your body |
| What is an EEG scan? | Shows brain activity, looks at electrical activity of the brain |
| The cerebellum helps you to control …? | Coordination, routines, balance |
| The hypothalamus links two things together, what are they? | Brain and glandular system |
| If a stroke victim has paralysis on the left side, where is the brain damage most likely located? | right side |
| What is Broca’s aphasia? | can't form words |
| What is severed during a “split-brain” operation? | Corpus collosum |
| Which hemisphere is used in the retrieval of a name? | left |
| Which hemisphere is used in the memory of a face? | right |
| Humanistic psychologists believe that humans are… | Good, that we all have some positive goals |
| What is the function of the pupil? | lets light come in |
| Getting used to something is called __ | Habituation |
| What is the term that refers to the psychological effect of the length of light waves? | Color |
| Contracts and Expands the pupil | Iris |
| Which type of cells form the optic nerve? | Ganglion Cells |
| Which type of retinal cell plays a role in color vision? | Combs |
| What are the three primary colors? | red, blue, green |
| What is probably the most important sense for humans? | sight |
| What is the physical stimuli for our sense of hearing? | sound |
| Severe ear infections can damage the bones of the middle ear, this sometimes causes ____________ hearing impairment. | conduction |
| What other sense is closely related to the sense of taste? | smell |
| Bumps in tongue that you can see are called ___ | papillae |
| Where are the olfactory receptor cells located? | Nasal channel- across mouth and nose |
| When we experience flavor, this is a combination of which two senses? | smell & taste |
| What is closure? | able to see wholeness even though its missing parts |
| What is constancy? | distance affects how you look |
| What is size constancy? | Tendency to interpret an object as always being the same actual size, regardless of its distance |
| What is contiguity? | Two things that happen closely together; perceived as related |
| What is linear perspective? | Two lines that run parallel but looks like they are turning in |
| The Muller-Lyer illusion is most often found in cultures where what exists? | Western cultures, big cities, buildings with lots of corners |
| What is bottom-up processing? | Starting from the bottom |
| What is the illusion when looking out of a car traveling 60mph in regards to close and far away objects? | Things that are far in distance are not moving or moving slowly, but things closer at going fast |
| What are we doing while we are in “waking consciousness?” | talking |
| What are some examples of altered states of consciousness? | Multi-tasking, sleep, daydreaming, |
| What are some examples of a circadian rhythm? | Sleep/wake cycle, body temperature, heart beat |
| What part of the brain is involved with sleep as the daylight fades, and what does the pineal gland release in response to it? | Hypothalamus, millitonen |
| What are some factors involved in the ability to go to sleep? | Environment, body temperature, melatonin levels, ceratonin level, stress |
| What are some symptoms of sleep deprivation? | Irritability |
| What does adaptive theory explain? | Evolutionary perspective |
| What does restorative theory explain? | Explains “why” |
| Can sleepwalking be partly due to heredity? | yes |
| Night terrors are most common with what age group? | children |
| Falling asleep with no warning | narcolepsy |
| What is sleep apnea? | Stop breathing for a certain period of time while sleeping |
| What is the most frequently used drug in Western societies? | Alcohol |
| Amphetamines are classified as ….? | stimulants |
| What is psychological dependence? | Thinking that you need it, feeling like it |
| Is an amphetamine a naturally occurring substance? | No |
| Cocaine is classified as a …? | stimulant |
| What is hypnosis? | Altered stage, trans-like stage, open to suggestion |
| What are the characteristics of heroine? | Highly addicted, thought to be better than morphine, |
| What are psychoactive drugs? | Alter your thinking/perception, changes your mood/way you think |
| What can high doses of marijuana lead to? | Hallucinations & delusions |
| What kind of sleeo? Relatively active type of sleep when most of a person’s dreaming takes place | Rapid Eye Movement |
| Non-REM stage 1 | while awake,primary beta activity, more alpha as one relaxes, onset of sleep in stage 1 is associated with alpha being replaced by theta |
| Non-REM stage 2 | EEG sleep spindles appear; theta activity is predominant; body temperature continues to drop, heart and breathing low |
| Non-REM stage 3 | delta activity makes up 20-50% of EEG activity |
| Non-REM stage 4 | body is at lowest level of functioning and people are hard to awaken; sleep disorders such as sleepwalking and night terrors |
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