Chapters 1-3

Question 1

Part of the brain associated with formation of memories

Answer 1

Hippocampus

Question 2

Brain and Spinal Cord

Answer 2

CNS

Question 3

Associated with Pain and Pleasure Response

Answer 3

Endorphins

Question 4

Fatty Material that acts like insulation

Answer 4

Myelin Sheath

Question 5

Fluent and understandable speech

Answer 5

Brocas

Question 6

Branches from the cell body that recieves signals

Answer 6

Dendrites

Question 7

Sleep dreaming arousal and left right coordination

Answer 7

Pons

Question 8

Part of brain associated with attention and arousal

Answer 8

Reticular Formation

Question 9

Switching station that sends messages to appropriate areas of the cortex

Answer 9

Thalamus

Question 10

Scaffolding that guides and supporta neurons

Answer 10

Glial cells

Question 11

Contains primary auditory cortex

Answer 11

Temporal lobe

Question 12

Part of the brain coordinating posture. muscle tone, and learned reflexes

Answer 12

Cerebellum

Question 13

Fear response and memory of fearful stimuli

Answer 13

Amygdala

Question 14

Nerves and neurons that are not part of the brain and spinal cord

Answer 14

Peripheral Nervous System (PNS)

Question 15

What is Psychology?

Answer 15

Psychology refers to the scientific study of the mind and behavior.

Question 16

What is Functionalism

Answer 16

Functionalism focused on how mental activities helped an organism fit into its environment. Functionalists were more interested in
the operation of the whole mind rather than of its individual parts,

Question 17

Who established functionalism?

Answer 17

William James, John Dewey, and Charles Sanders Pierce

Question 18

What is Structuralism

Answer 18

Understanding the conscious experience through introspection, it focuses on the contents of the mental process rather then function. Whole psyhchology, rection time

Question 19

Who developed structuralism

Answer 19

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 20

Gestalt Psychology

Answer 20

Gestalt psychology deals with the fact that although a sensory experience can be broken down into individual parts, how those parts relate to each other as a whole is often what the individual responds to in perception

Question 21

Who developed Gestalt Psychology

Answer 21

Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka, Wolfgang Köhler

Question 22

What is Behaviorism?

Answer 22

Behaviorism focused on making psychology an objective science by focusing on observing and controlling behavior

Question 23

Who is the father of behaviorism

Answer 23

John Watson

Question 24

Biopsychology

Answer 24

study of how biology influences behavior (panelope)

Question 25

What is industrial psychology

Answer 25

Selecting and Evaluating Employees. Industrial psychology studies the attributes of jobs, applicants of those jobs, and methods for assessing fit to a
job. These procedures include job analysis, applicant testing, and interviews.

Question 26

What is Organizational Psychology

Answer 26

The social dimentions of work. Organizational psychology is concerned with the effects of interactions among people in the workplace on the
employees themselves and on organizational productivity. Job satisfaction and its determinants and outcomes are a major focus of organizational psychology research and practice.

Question 27

What is human factors psychology

Answer 27

Workplace Design.
Human factors psychology, or ergonomics, studies the interface between workers and their machines and
physical environments. Human factors psychologists specifically seek to design machines to better support
the workers using them.

Question 28

What is the difference between industrial and organizational psychology

Answer 28

While industrial psychology focuses on the people at work, often exploring individual differences and their effect on performance, organizational psychology attempts to understand their role in the organization and its function in society

Question 29

What type of stuy was the Krista and Tatiana Hogan conjoined twin study?

Answer 29

Clinical or Case Study

Question 30

What is a clinical or case study

Answer 30

Observational research study focusing on one or a few people

Question 31

What is Archival Research

Answer 31

method of research using past records or data sets to answer various research questions, or
to search for interesting patterns or relationships

Question 32

What is Confirmation Bias

Answer 32

tendency to ignore evidence that disproves ideas or beliefs “Sandra thinks daycare is bad and only looks at studies that agree with her pov, what does it mean when you only choose the examples you want”

Question 33

What is a confounding variable

Answer 33

unanticipated outside factor that affects both variables of interest, often giving the false impression that changes in one variable causes changes in the other variable, when, in actuality, the outside factor causes changes in both variables

Question 34

Cross-sectional research

Answer 34

compares multiple segments of a population at a single time

Question 35

Dependent variable

Answer 35

variable that the researcher measures to see how much effect the independent variable had

Question 36

Independent variable

Answer 36

variable that is influenced or controlled by the experimenter; in a sound experimental study, the independent variable is the only important difference between the experimental and control
group

Question 37

Longitudinal research

Answer 37

Studies in which the same group of individuals is surveyed or measured repeatedly
over an extended period of time

Question 38

Naturalistic observation

Answer 38

observation of behavior in its natural setting

Question 39

Negative correlation

Answer 39

two variables change in different directions, with one becoming larger as the other becomes smaller; a negative correlation is not the same thing as no correlation. Downward line

Question 40

positive correlation

Answer 40

two variables change in the same direction, both becoming either larger or smaller (upwards line)

Question 41

Synapse

Answer 41

The space between 2 neurons

Question 42

Demetrius was in a car accident and his parietal lobe was injured. Which is the most likely effect

Answer 42

Parietal lobe damage can severely impair a person’s ability to process sensations such as hot/cold, smooth/rough, etc. Left side neglect

Wernicke’s Aphasia: difficulty speaking in coherent sentences or understanding others’ speech.

Question 43

Elayna was diagnosed with a brain tumor and feels vary cold, almost fainting, reduced appetite and reduced sexual desire.

Answer 43

Hypothalamus

Question 44

Geremy has Parkinson’s which affects his motor skills, noticed changes in movement, it is possible that geremys _____ is producing less of ______

Answer 44

The Midbrain (substantia nigra, ventral tegmental area), dopamine