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Psych 101 Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is linked to agression and anger | amygdala |
| What regulates hunger, thirst, and body temperature | hypothalamus |
| what is involved in making plans and judgements | frontal lobe |
| what recieves information from the visual field | occipital lobe |
| What processes auditory infromation | temporal lobe |
| what controls heartbeat and breathing | medulla |
| what transfers messages from brainstem to cerebral cortex | thalamus |
| what coordinates movement output | cerebellum |
| what fibers connect the two hemispheres | corpus callosum |
| what processes sensory information | parietal lobe |
| What is introspection | What happens when there is a third party variable |
| what is negative correlation | when two variables are presented as high-low or low-high |
| what is the hippocampus | part of the brain responsible for memory, sensory, and emotions |
| what is wernickes area | part of the brain that is responsible for being able to understand speech and what it means |
| what is perceptual set | existing knowledge influences how we perceive incoming stimuli |
| what is transduction | the process by which receptors in the eye respond to light, sound, or smell |
| what is gestalt psychology | the study of the whole |
| What year was the first psych lab founded and by who and what was the expierement he did | 1879 by wilhem wvundt and he was experimenting reaction time and how you react to sounds and light |
| How would the behavioral perspective describe depression in a new mother | would ask the monther if shes noticed any changes in her behavior that are unusual for example being less productive in certain areas or if others noticed changes in her behavior |
| how would they congitive perspective describe depression in a new mother | would ask the mother if she is experiencing any irregular thougths that she wouldnt normaly have for example any depressive or harming herself or others |
| What are some effective study strategies | spreading out studying over the course of a few days and studying in a quiet place |
| What does IRB stand for | Institutional review board |
| What are two rules you need to follow if you want to get permission to collect data from humans | informed consent form before experiement and debriefing after the experiment |
| Do nuerons touch and how do they communicate | they dont touch and they communicate by releasing neurotransmitters down the cell into the axon and then to the dendrites and then out through the bulb things at the end of the dendrite |
| Low level of what are linked to alzheimer's | acetycholine |
| low levels of what are linked to Parkinsons disease | dopamine |
| low levels of what are linked to depression | serotonin |
| what lessens pain and boosts mood | endorphins |
| What does bottom up processing show us | sensory information from a stimulus in the environment during a process |
| what dpes top down proccessing show us | knowledge and expectancy driving from a process |
| What color does the Young Helmholtz trichromatic theory of color say we see | it says we only see three colors red, green and blue through the cones in our eyes |
| What does the trichromatic theory of color explain well | it says that there are 3 colors that combine to make other colors that we see |
| What does the opponent process theory of color say we see | it says that for every color we see we can also see its opponent like for black = white, blue = yellow |
| what does the opponent process theory of color explain well | it explains that we are able to see the colors that are opposite to the main colors we see |
| Whis is B.F skinner and what did he do | created the Skinner box and put a mouse in the boz and watched how it got through |
| what is extinction | when a conditioned stimulus is no longer presented the participant forgets about it |
| what is paradoxly sleep | a sleep stage where bain activity is very hight but the body is paralyzed and doesnt move |
| what is REM | Rapid eye movement |
| what is a chronotype | individuals sleep/wake cycle and determines if you are a morning person or a night person |
| what is episodic memory | memories about events personally experienced |
| what is the von restorf effect | a person is more likely to remember an item that stands out from a group of similar items |
| what is cell differentation | the biological process where unspecialized cells become specialized through gene expression |
| what is a teratogen | a harmful factor that can affect the embryo like smoking or drinking |
| what is object permanency | knwoning an object exsists even when you cant see it |
| what is permissive parenting | has low control but is high in warmth and parents have no rules but show love to their kids |
| What type of reinforcement is it when a coach shortens lifting when you work hard at practice | negative reinforcement |
| what type of reinforcement is it when a coach tells you to run laps when you make an error at practice | positive punishment |
| what type of reinforcement is it when a coach takes a w off your helment everytime you make an error in practice | negative punishment |
| what type of reinforcemet is it when a coach gives you a day off for working hard in practice | postitive reinforcement |
| which schedule of partial reinforcemnt produces the highest rate of performance | variable ratio |
| which schedule of partiall reinforcement produces the lowest rate of performance | fixed ratio |
| what are the stages of REM in the order they occur | NonREM1, NonREM2, NonREM3, NonREM2, NonREM1, REM |
| when does REM occur | 90 minutes after you sleep |
| how often do you cycle through REM during a typical night | 5 times |
| What are some physical and psychological effects of sleep deprivation | weaker immune system, can hinder memory, risk of diabetes |
| What is the effect of a serical position curve where people remember items at the beggining of a list better and what part of memory does it reflect | called primacy recency and it reflects long term memory |
| What is the effect of a social position curve when people remember items at the end of the list and what part of memory does it reflect | called recency and it refelcts short term memory |
| What are reasons we cant remember information from long term memory | misattribution, and if its nothing thought about for long its harder to retrieve unless there is something that we can connecct it too to help us remember |
| what is the most critical stage in prenatal development and why | Stage 2 the embryonic stage because that baby is most at risk of teratogens |
| when do infants craw and what does that motor behavior tell us about brain development | they crawl at 7 months and it tells us that the brain is developing normally |
| Accoriding to piaget if a baby is presented a cup after drinking from a bottel they will first ____ then they will ___ if it doesnt work | assimilate then accomodate |
| what is the strange sistuation and what did Ainsworth tell us about attachment | Starnge situationis when a mom and child r put in a room the after a while mom leave and stranger comes in and them com comes back and comforts child, tells us mom/child differ in attachment styles |
| What was one of the cultural differences from the video Preschool in threee cultures | in japan the teacher was permissive and she didnt have any rules for the kids but she was still there for them |
| what is psychic causality | every thought, feeling, or behavior has a cause |
| what is fixation | when a child during a development stage has problems or gets stuck in that stage (e.g. being weaned off the breast too early) |
| what is homophily | how we gravitate to people and create social relationships with people who we are similar to |
| what is comorbidity | when two disorders are present |
| what is etiology | the cause of a disorder or mental illness |
| what is social anxiety disorder | when a person has an extreme fear of social situations where they might be seen negatively by others |
| what is word salad | when a person starts saying words that dont make sense |
| what are the 3 components of Freuds theory of personality and how do they work together | the id responsible for urges and when t wants something it needs it, the superego rewards/punishes the egos decisions and strives for perfection, and the ego balances the id and superego and its the personality that is seen by others |
| What is denial | refusing to accept real events becasue they are unplesant |
| what is displacement | trabsferring inappropriate urges or behaviors onto a more acceptable or less threatening target |
| what is projection | attributing unacceptable desires to others |
| what is rationalization | justifying behaviors by substituting acceptable reasons for less acceptable real reasons |
| what is reaction formation | reducing anxiety by adopting beliefs contrary to your own beliefs |
| what is sublimation | redirecting unaccecotable desires through socially acceptable channels |
| what are the advantages and disadvantages of self reports | advantages = you know yourself and your behaviors disadvantages = biases and only choose answers that make you look goood or compare yourself to other in your group and choose things that make you better among them |
| What are the big five personality traits | openness, consientioness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism |
| problem focused strategies under what sistuation are they most effective | most effective are when you fail a test |
| emotional focused strategies under what situation are they most effective | most effective when you experience a loss of a family member |
| Under what conditions are peole most likey to ober to follow order from milgrams research | most likey to obey if the person is close or if they are associated with a prestigious university, or if the person is percieved as an authority figure |
| what is congitive dissonance | two inconsistant attributions that make youchange your feelings, you act first then to mach those actions you change you feelings or thoughts |
| what are the three variables that predict who you marry | similarity, proximilty, and attractiveness |
| what are the 4 ds and how do they detriment is a behavior is abnormal | Deviant = out of the cultural norm Distressful = when someone/others symptom affects them Dysfunction = ablility to function is compromised Danger = symptom causes danger to themselves or others |
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