BU PS101 Exam 1 Dunne UPDATED
ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
Acetylcholine - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Long-term memory, muscle activity (expanding
and contracting)
any muscle expanding and contracting
Acetylcholine Associated Disorders+Medicines - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Botox blocks
ATCH (no contraction)
Black Widow Poison - floods body with ATCH causing convulsions and a rapidly beating
heart
Alzheimer's disease
Botulism
Serotonin (5HT) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔regulates appetites or drives, mood regulation
works with hypothalamus to regulate appetites
2% in brain 92% in gut
psychology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔the scientific study of mind and behavior
behavior - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔actions and responses directly observable and
measurable
mind - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔internal states
we can infer from behavior what the state of mind is
goals of psychology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔-describe, explain, predict, control
phenomena around us
critical thinking - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔1. take an active role in the world around us
, 2. evaluating the validity of information presented to us as fact
basic research - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔knowledge purely for its own sake
applied research - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔research designed to solve a specific problem
Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- father of psychology
- founded structuralism
Edward Tichner - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- student of wundt
- helped to found structuralism
- first psychology lab in the US
Structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- modeled study of psychology on the hard
sciences
- how
- used introspection as methodology
Functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔- asked why
- psychology should study the functions of consciousness
William James (1842-1910) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔founder of functionalism
first psychology lecture ever
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔neurologist and founder of
psychodynamic theory
neurons - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔building bocks of the nervous system
generate electrical activity, communicate with muscles, glands, and other neurons
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