Psych 1010 - Midterm 1 Latest Update 2024 -2025 100 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+ action potential - CORRECT ANSWER: neural impulse; brief electrical charge that travels down an axon addiction - CORRECT ANSWER: compulsive cravings of drugs or certain behaviors despite known adverse consequences adrenal glands - CORRECT ANSWER: pair of endocrine glands that sit just above the kidneys and secrete hormones that help arouse the body in times of stress alcohol use disorder - CORRECT ANSWER: alcohol use marked as tolerance, withdrawal and a drive to continue problematic use alpha waves - CORRECT ANSWER: relatively slow brain waves of relaxed, awake state amygdala - CORRECT ANSWER: neural clusters in the limbic system; linked to emotion - fear and aggression association areas - CORRECT ANSWER: areas in cerebral cortex not involved in primary motor/sensory functions autonomic nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER: part of the PNS that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs axon - CORRECT ANSWER: neuron extension that passes messages through its branches to other neurons or to muscles or glands behavior geneticists - CORRECT ANSWER: those who study relative power and limits of genetic and environmental influences on behavior behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER: view that psychology 1) should be an objective science that 2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. blindsight - CORRECT ANSWER: condition in which a person can respond to a visual stimulus without consciously experiencing it case study - CORRECT ANSWER: descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles central nervous system - CORRECT ANSWER: brain and spinal chord; body's decision maker cerebral cortex - CORRECT ANSWER: surface layer of interconnected neural cells; ultimate control and information processing center change blindness - CORRECT ANSWER: failing to notice changes in the environment chromosomes - CORRECT ANSWER: threadlike structures made of DNA molecules that contain the genes cognitive neuroscience - CORRECT ANSWER: interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language) confounding variable - CORRECT ANSWER: factor other than the factor being studied that might produce an effect corpus callosum - CORRECT ANSWER: large band of neural fibers connecting two brain hemispheres, carrying messages between them
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