Psych 121 Final Review For Missouri
State, McNew questions with answers.
What does Psychoanalysis focus on? ANS - Unconscious forces outside awareness
What is the only research method to draw a cause and effect relationship? ANS - Experiment
How does the strength of Correlations work? ANS - Closest correlation to 1, positive of negative, is the
strongest.
Short term memory________ ANS - holds 7 or so items for a bout 20 seconds
What is recognition? ANS - seeing the answer and being able to pull it out of memory
What is retroactive interference? ANS - 2nd learned thing gets in the way of the 1st learned thing
What is proactive interference? ANS - 1st learned thing gets in the way of the 2nd learned thing
What is fundamental attribution error? ANS - Overestimating personal roles, underestimating
situational roles
What is conformity? ANS - Changing ones own behavior to match that of other people
What is obedience? ANS - doing something because someone directed you to
What is foot-in-the-door? ANS - Small request, than larger request.
The parasympathetic nervous system_______ ANS - calms the body after stressful situations
, What makes up the central nervous system? ANS - The brain and spinal cord
The medulla is involved in_______ ANS - lifesaving functions
What is drug tolerance? ANS - The need for higher and higher doses of a drug in order to experience
side effects
What is the corpus callosum? ANS - band of axon fibers that transmits information between the two
hemispheres
What is the just-noticeable difference? ANS - The smallest difference detectable between two stimuli
Cones are for_______, rods are for________ ANS - color, black and white
Trichromatic color theory states that________ ANS - the combination of red, blue, and green fire to
determine the color of something
Secondary reinforcers are______ ANS - things not needed for survival
Positive reinforcement means______ ANS - Adding something to increase occurrence of behavior
Negative reinforcement means_______ ANS - taking away something to increase occurrence of
behavior
The Id operates on______ ANS - the pleasure principal
The Superego focuses on______ ANS - what's the right thing to do
The ego is______ ANS - The balance between the Id and the superego
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