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PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY- EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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PRINCIPLES OF PSYCHOLOGY- EXAMQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Psychodynamic - answer-separation of conscious/unconscious
Behavioral - answer-the science of behavior and how it is learned.
Humanistic - answer-focuses on free will and self actualization
Cognitive - answer-focuses on memory, intelligence, perception, learning and problem
solving.
Sociocultural - answer-recognizes that our social environment influences our attitudes,
beliefs and actions.
Biopsychological - answer-that behavior is the direct result of events which occur within
the body
Evolutionary - answer-focuses on biological bases for universal mental characteristics
that all humans share
Scientific method - answer-system used to reduce bias and error when measuring data
Correlation - answer-a measurement of the relationship between 2 variables.
Determines the strength and direction.
Causation - answer-third variable problem
Variable - answer-anything that can change or vary
Independent variable - answer-changing, manipulated by the experimentor.
Dependent variable - answer-measuring, the outcome of the variable being measured.
Cortex - answer-outer most part of the brain containing neurons.
Corpus callosum - answer-thick band of neurons connecting the left and right
hemisphere.
Left brain - answer-language, computation, logical reasoning.
Pons - answer-coordinates movements of left and right side of body, inhibits movement
during sleep.
, Electrochemical process - answer-electrical charge sent down the neuron signalling the
release of neurotransmitters.
Glutamate - answer-most abundant in body, excitatory.
Gaba - answer-most abundant externally, inhibitory
Serotonin - answer-mood
Dopamine - answer-pleasure and movement
Sensation - answer-process that occurs when sensory receptors withing sense organs
receive environmental stimuli, which eventually becomes neural signals in the brain
Perception - answer-the interpretation and organization of the neural signals produced
through sensation into meaningful information about our enviornment
Sensory receptors - answer-specialize neurons that receive different kinds of energy as
opposed to neurotransmitters
Rods - answer-sensory receptor cell for light, good for low light no good for color
sharpness
Cones - answer-sensory receptors cells for color, requires more light sharpness of
vision
Optic chaism - answer-interprets information left eye to right brain, right eye to left brain
Short cones - answer-blue
Middle cones - answer-green
Long cones - answer-red
Colorblindness - answer-problems with receptors on the retina resulting in color
deficiency
Opponent process theory - answer-explains after images, tiring of one color results in
the presentation of the opposite color
Tricromatic theory - answer-relationship between the 3 cones determining which colors
are seen
Gestalt principles - answer-organization/patterning allows us to see the whole rather
than the sum of its part
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