SDSU PSY 319 Tests Bundle Set

- Answer Psychopharmacology includes the study of psychoactive drugs and drugs of abuse. List of terms that covers all the themes in pharmacokinetics - Answer absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion. The _______________ route of drug administration has the advantage of bypass...

why are planaria so extensively studied? - Answer because they are the most primitive biological group with neural features like brains of the 2 groups in the planaria study the group that was able to turn off the light by intercepting the electric eye - Answer passed the eye more than the ot...

Personality - Answer a relatively enduring pattern of behavior, feelings, and thoughts Two Parents of Personality - Answer Nomothetic and Ideographic Nomothetic - Answer Wundt- Scientific Method; Galton (Devoted to studying variations in human ability) Ideographic - Answer Freud; Ca...

corpus callosum - Answer a large bundle of nerve fibers that connects corresponding parts of one side of the brain with those of the other split-brain operation - Answer brain surgery that is occasionally performed to treat a form of epilepsy; the surgeon cuts the corpus callosum, which conne...

what is gender identity - Answer psychological sense, or perception, of being masculine or feminine, matches biology in most people what is gender expression - Answer the way people fulfill expectations about gender through their appearance, behavior, and interactions with others what is...

Someone with epilepsy might be prescribed a medicine to increase __________ action. - Answer GABA Muscle contractions often need to happen quickly so they are controlled via _____________ receptors. - Answer ionotropic Monoaminergic neurons include: - Answer serotonergic neurons L-DOP...

Concept of Motivation - Answer The concept we use when we describe the forces acting on or with in an organism to initiate direct behavior Understand the concept of motivation variables - Answer -Intervening variable: concept used to link a stimulus to a response. Ex: cheese; response: how fa...

Motivation concerns the conditions responsible for variations in intensity, quality and ____ of ongoing behavior. - Answer direction What type of motivational approach placed the emphasis for behavior and directed activity directly on the environment? - Answer behaviorist approach Which th...

Selection ration (SR) - Answer Index ranging from 0 to 1 that reflects the ratio of positions to applicants; calculated by dividing the number of positions available by the number of applicants Utility analysis - Answer Technique that assesses the economic return on investment of human resour...

How many people do you need to have in a room to have a 50% chance that 2 of them share a birthday? - Answer 23 Person-as-Machine - Answer all humans have basic set of needs that express themselves over life span of an individual as internal "pushes" or drives Ex. Maslow's Need Theory ...

industrial-organizational (I-O) psychology - Answer "the application of psychological principles, theory, and research to the work setting." Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology - Answer "An association to which many I-O psychologists, both practitioners and researchers, be...

identify general rules that govern behavior across multiple organisms - Answer generalization identify simple causes of complex behaviors - Answer reductionism research in neuroscience should focus on - Answer reductionism and generalization the idea that the mind and body are separat...

Industrial technology - Answer Which of the following is not one of the three major concentrations of I-O? Organizational Psychology - Answer Motivation, stress, leadership, and teamwork are addressed by: Manipulating workplace lighting - Answer The Hawthorne studies were used to examine...

Hawthorne Studies - Answer Initially designed to study lighting on worker productivity, but resulted in revealing how social forces influence productivity. State - Answer A temporary situation Trait - Answer An enduring characteristic Hofstede's 5 Cultural Dimensions - Answer Power...