Psychology 101 FInal

In this biological approach, this is one explanation for abnormal behaviour

Mechanical dysfunction

What is a congenital defect?

This is a birth defect that occurs due to fetal exposure to some toxic substance

What did Sigmund Freud say?

Behavior is not due to biology alone

What are three parts of the mind?

Conscious, preconscious, and Unconscious

Who wanted to make psychology a more objective science?

John Watson

In behaviourism, all your actions

All are conditioned

These are psychologist who study the origins of behaviour

Research psychologist

This approach emphasizes “Free Will”

Humanistic psychologist

This is when a psychological problem manifests itself as a physical problem

Hysterical conversion

2 things happen close together in time

What is a correlation

What is the dependent variable?

The one measured at the end

Everyone has a chance to be in your experiment

This is a random sample

How do you eliminate as much experimenter bias as possible?

Run a double blind experiment

How many variables in a true experiment?

TWO

This is a non-reactive stimuli given to balance experimental groups

This is a placebo

A test measures what it says it measures. What is Reliability?

Validity, similar scores

What test is an Achievement test?

The SAT

What is 5%

Rate of return for a survey

Someone having trouble with grammar might have what?

A problem with the temporal lobe

What can the Motor cortex do that the sensory cortex cannot?

Send signals to the body

This is a long nerve fiber that sends signals

The axon

How many messages per minute can an Axon receive?

Zero

What do vesicles do?

Holds different neurotransmitters in the axon

Do you have to think about getting scared to get scared?

No, it can go straight to the Amygdala

If you have Aphasia, what can’t you do?

Talk

What does the Thalamus do?

Acts like a post office sorting signals

What is the whole top of the brain called?

Cerebrum

What are the cracks in the brain called?

Fissures

Infrared light is …. Ultraviolet light is…

Slow, Fast

Why is the cornea in your eye shiny

Light reflects on the fluid in the eye

This is where the optic nerve is

We all have blind spots

This thing can make you tired

The reticular activation system

Fear, hunger, thirst, pleasure and fear

All have the hypothalamus in common

When the hypothalamus registers low blood sugar

You get hungry (not just feel hungry)

When the stomach acid is very low

A person tends not to feel hungry

Explain Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

Emotion / Physiology at the same time

Explain Schacter 2-factor theory

Physiology all feels same, you must label emotion

Explain James – Lang

Physiological response, you acknowledge the emotion

Red / Green

Colour most men are blind in

This is a fixed set of behaviours

Instinct

Emotions are ____, Motivation drives us to _____

Feelings, goals

Which part of the brain is most closely associated with physical violence?

Amygdala

Without this chemical, puberty wouldn’t begin

Leptin

This chemical is responsible for turn eating behaviour off

CCK

Why does the hypothalamus make you hungry?

Low levels of glucose in the blood

This is giving a possible explanation, but not the real one

Explaining away

Where does extrinsic motivation come from

The outside world

Which part of the nervous system arouses us? Calms you down?

Sympathetic, parasympathetic

Where does insulin come from?

Pancreas

Which part of the brain turns off eating behaviour?

Ventromedial hypothalamus

What is it called when we see someone else with “more”?

Relative deprivation

There seems to be a positive correlation between what?

Positive outlook, level of HealthThis is consciousness

You have an awareness of body and environment

This is consciousness

This thing operates in the unconscious processes

Intuition

This is a relaxed state just before falling asleep

Twilight

What are Delta waves?

A sign of deep sleep

You can remember this without assistance..

This is recall

Hypnosis cannot do this

Make it so that you can’t wake up

You can hallucinate if you do this (no not mushrooms)

Stay awake for too long

What does body temperature tell you?

When it’s time to sleep

Rich fantasy life (like Walter Mitty)

Who is more easily hypnotized

This is the part of your brain that is always awake and aware

The hidden observer

Criminals have a hard time

Imagining and fantasy

Caffeine is

Most abused drug in the U.S.

How many stages of sleep all together?

FIVE

This is when you believe a constructed memory is all your own

What is a family story

Your true memories can be changed by a therapist

Under hypnosis

______ has a genetic component that can be passed down

Depression

This thing has proven to be of limited assistance to the general public

Psychotherapy

This is when you have an arm or leg cut off, but you still feel like it’s there

Phantom limb

_______ are unsure of what constitutes ______

Psychologists, Intelligence

What does the hippocampus do?

Form new memories

When children, under age 4 are asked to perform a new task….

They do not experience a sense of failure

When asked a question that they don’t know the answer to…

Men will try to answer anyway

Goals of psychology?

Predict, control behaviour

Descriptive statistics

Just tell you what happened

Know the Zimbardo experiment

Job affects personality

Know the Milgram experiment

People surrender under colour of authority

Know the Harlow experiment

Safety over survival

Know the Hilgrad experiment

Ice/pain experiment, Hidden observer

Where are the three smallest bones in your body located?

Inner ear

Know what Alfie Kohn thinks about rewards

Overused, remove intrinsic motivation

This word means “distance” or to substitute

Proxy

This is a mental disorder named after an 18th century Baron who told tall tales

Munchausen syndrome

In this thing, one part of your body is activated while the other isn’t

Opponent process theory

People see this thing as two dimensional

Emotions, good/bad, high/low

Dreams are important in our lives

Most psychologists believe

Dreams occur in ….

REM sleep

Sleep apnea may be indicated, if you do this at night

Snore

Sleep apnea may be indicated, if you do this at night

Sleep walking

There is no inner life

In behaviourism

Antom Mesmer

Perfected hypnosis

Your muscles tense and wake you

Myoclonic jerk

Stuff that can cause birth defects

Teratogens

Three parts of the personality

Id Ego and SuperEgo

Where a person hold their power centre

Locus of Control

Things happen to me

If they believe in fate

Do mentally unstable people know there’s something wrong with them?

They suspect, but don’t really know for sure

What is eclecticism?

Taking the best parts of each theory to use

Do we need more sleep as we age

FALSE