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Psychology 101 Exam 1 questions and answers
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Psychology 101 Exam 12 Functionalists - questions and answers-Darwin and James
2 Structuralists - questions and answers-Wundt and Titchener
3 Broad ways of understanding psychological phenomena - questions and answers-Theoretical
Propositions, Shared Metaphors, Accepted Methods of Observation
Acetylcholine - questions and answers-learning and memory (neurotransmitter)
Action Potential (nerve impulse) - questions and answers-all or none triggering of nerve that
passes along already created information
Adrenal Glands - questions and answers-release adrenalin; fight or flight response
Amygdala - questions and answers-learning and remembering emotionally significant events;
involved in recognizing others emotions
Association Areas - questions and answers-put together perceptions, ideas and plans (area)
Autonomic Nervous System - questions and answers-serves internal body structures connected
with basic life processes (automatic) (nervous system)
Axon - questions and answers-sends information out of a neuron
Basal Ganglia - questions and answers-involved in movement and judgements that require
minimal conscious thought
Behaviorist - questions and answers-Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner; mental processes are
byproducts of environmental events; experiment
Behaviorist Metaphor - questions and answers-People are like machines
Biopsychology - questions and answers-Physical bases of psychological phenomena
(sub-discipline)
Case Study - questions and answers-in depth observation of a small group of participants
(useful at beginning or end of a series of quantitative series)
Categorical Variable - questions and answers-a variable rated in groups or categories (definite
answers like man/woman)
, Cell Body - questions and answers-neuron part that processes information from dendrites
Central Nervous System (CNS) - questions and answers-Brain and spinal cord
Cerebellum - questions and answers-involved with motor learning, movement, balance and
posture (affected by alcohol)
Cerebral Cortex - questions and answers-allows flexible construction of voluntary movements;
enables symbolic thinking
Cerebral Lateralization - questions and answers-some division of labor exists but each
hemisphere of the brain is dominant in some functions
Clinical Psychology - questions and answers-Nature and treatment of psychological processes
leading to emotional distress
Cognitive - questions and answers-Wundt; focuses on how people perceive, process and
retrieve information (Perspective)
Cognitive Metaphor - questions and answers-Brain like a computer
Cognitive Psychology - questions and answers-Nature of mental process such as thought,
memory, language
Construct Validity - questions and answers-does it measure what it is supposed to
Continuous Variable - questions and answers-a variable rated from none to much (amount of
variable)
Corpus Callosum - questions and answers-connects the two hemispheres of the brain
Correlation - questions and answers-one number that shows the relationship between two
variables (what happens to a variable as the other changes
Criterion Validity - questions and answers-does it relate to other measures like it should
Dendrites - questions and answers-receiving end of a neuron
Depolarization - questions and answers-influx of Na ions that makes the neuron more likely to
fire
Descriptive Research types - questions and answers-Case Studies, Naturalistic Observation,
Survey Research and Correlational
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