Full Length #5

Question 1

short term memory

Answer 1

lasting a few seconds to a few minutes

Question 2

sensory memory

Answer 2

last at most a second

important in the filtering and prioritization of all sensory input

Question 3

working memory

Answer 3

holds all the info that a person is actively using at a certain time

Question 4

when you are trying to achieve a task, what kind of memory is at work?

Answer 4

sensory
short-term
long term memory

Question 5

Cannon-Bard theory of emotion

Answer 5

the sensing of and response to emotions occurred simultaneously and separately in different parts of the brain

Question 6

James-Lange theory

Answer 6

sensory data induced a physiological response leading to an emotional state ‘

Question 7

accuracy

Answer 7

closeness of a given measurement to the true value of that measurement

Question 8

ways to improve accuracy:

Answer 8

increase the number of saliva samples

Question 9

impression

Answer 9

doing things to manage other people’s perceptions of them

Question 10

foraging behavior

Answer 10

how people collect food

Question 11

inclusive fitness

Answer 11

theory related to evolution and a species’s survival

Question 12

groupthink

Answer 12

when an individual conforms to the ideals of a larger group

Question 13

cognitive appraisal theory

Answer 13

process by which an individual emotionally reacts after evaluating a given situation

Question 14

absolute poverty

Answer 14

which lack of income prevents access to the basic necessities of life such as good water, shelter, and warmth

Question 15

relative poverty

Answer 15

typically measured as a lack of income relative to the average income

Question 16

drive reduction theory

Answer 16

internal drives motivate people so that they attempt to reduce/eliminate the driving factor

Question 17

incentive theory

Answer 17

motivated to action by external goals

Question 18

cognitive dissonance

Answer 18

performing actions that are incongruent with one’s beliefs lead to an attempt by individuals to modify their beliefs such that they become more consistent with the performed actions

Question 19

what side of the brain does language happen?

Answer 19

left side of the brain

Question 20

where is memory localized in the brain?

Answer 20

bilaterally

Question 21

internal locus of control

Answer 21

the idea of how much perceived control an individual has over his life

ex: if someone thinks bad things always happen to them, they will have poor locus of control

Question 22

inclusive fitness

Answer 22

determine by not only the number of offspring an organism has, but its ability to protect and raise its offspring to the point where they become productive members of the organisms’ social structure

Question 23

altruistic behavior

Answer 23

engage in behavior that hurts itself, if it helps the viability of the genetic material preserved in the offspring

Question 24

relationship between altruistic behavior and inclusive fitness

Answer 24

inclusive fitness is used to explain altruistic behavior

Question 25

fundamental attribution error

Answer 25

attributing a participant's behavior to an internal factor (emotional state/anger issues) instead of considering external factors (they were having a bad day, the PDA broke 15 times before, etc.) which may be influencing his response

Question 26

schziophrenia

Answer 26

typically though of as an excess of dopamine levels particularly in the frontal lobes

Question 27

dramaturgical approach

Answer 27

considers individuals as actors on a drama stage | -individuals' performances are affected by time, place, circumstance, race, and by the actors themselves

Question 28

somatoform disorder

Answer 28

pain without any discernable physical source

Question 29

assimilation example

Answer 29

a man was born in england and grew up eating meat pies and drinking Earl Grey tea all of his life. After moving to Georgia, he began losing his British accent and acquired a taste for fried foods and southern sweet tea

Question 30

social constructionsim

Answer 30

how groups of people come to ascribe meaning or value to objects or concepts ex: assessing the importance of a new technology to a group of people

Question 31

psychoanalytic theory

Answer 31

personality is shaped by a person's unconscious thoughts, feelings and past memories

Question 32

humanistic theory

Answer 32

focuses on the conscious | and says people are inherently good focuses on healthy personality development and humans are seen as inherently good

Question 33

biological theory

Answer 33

important components of personality are inherited or determine in part by our genes

Question 34

behaviorist theory

Answer 34

personality is the result of learned behavior patterns based on a person's environment

Question 35

Broca's Aphasia

Answer 35

inability to produce speech

Question 36

Wernicke's aphasia

Answer 36

condition in which speech comprehension is compromised

Question 37

conduction aphasia

Answer 37

inability to repeat what they hear

Question 38

anomic aphasia

Answer 38

inability of a person to produce the correct words for a topic about which they'd like to speak

Question 39

conduction

Answer 39

heat transfer by direct contact | requires things to touch

Question 40

convection

Answer 40

heat transfer by flowing current | need the physical flow of matter

Question 41

radiation

Answer 41

heat transfer by electromagnetic radiation | does not need the physical flow of matter, can occur through a vaccum

Question 42

what does pKa measure?

Answer 42

how much a molecule wants to hold on to its protons a pKa value for a weak acid like carbonic acid is always positive

Question 43

if the pKa is getting smaller, what does that mean for your Ka

Answer 43

gets larger, which indicates that there is more dissociation at higher temperature

Question 44

delta H

Answer 44

enthalphy | if delta H is positive, then it is endothermic and reaction must require heat

Question 45

micelles

Answer 45

assit in the digestion of fats by emulsifying them so they can be absorbed from the small intestine

Question 46

what is so important of micelles is that they

Answer 46

have a hydrophobic core and a hydrophilic exterior to assist the absorption of fat

Question 47

covlanet bond

Answer 47

formed b/w atoms that have similar electronegativities

Question 48

non polar covalent bond

Answer 48

formed between same atoms or atoms with very similar electronegativities -different in electronegativity b/w bonded atoms is less than .5

Question 49

polar covalent bond

Answer 49

formed when atoms of slightly different electronegativities share electrons -difference is between 0.5-1.9 ex: HCl, H2O, HF

Question 50

meatllic bond

Answer 50

occurs between atoms of metals, in which the valence electrons are free to move through the lattic

Question 51

the intramolecular forces from strongest to weakest

Answer 51

metallic ionic polar covalent nonpolar covalent

Question 52

which are stronger: intramolecular forces or intermolecular forces?

Answer 52

intramolecular forces -intermolecular forces are important because they determine the physical properties of molecules

Question 53

dipole-dipole interactions

Answer 53

forces occur when the partially positively charge part of a molecule interacts with the partially negatively charged part of the neighboring molecule ex: HCl

Question 54

what is the strongest intermolecular force of attraction?

Answer 54

dipole-dipole interactions

Question 55

hydrogen bonding

Answer 55

hydrogen atom bonded to either an oxygen, nitrogen, or fluorine atom

Question 56

London dispersion forces

Answer 56

exist between all types of molecules the more electrons a molecule has, the stronger the London dispersion forces are -breaking of london dispersion forces doesn't require that much energy

Question 57

what is the relationship between wavelength, frequency, and energy

Answer 57

energy is proportional to frequency frequency is inversely proportional to wavelength energy is inversely proportional to wavelength

Question 58

what is the energy of long wavelength photons

Answer 58

long wavelength, low energy