Phycology Final Exam

Question 1

Father of phycology

Answer 1

Willham Wundt

Question 2

Regulates the body’s sense of balance

Answer 2

Vestibular system

Question 3

First and last parts are remembered

Answer 3

Primacy recency

Question 4

Key behaviorist

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B.F. Skinner

Question 5

General adaptation syndrome

Answer 5

Alarm resistance exhaust-stance (fight or flight)

Question 6

If a test measures what it says it measures

Answer 6

Validity

Question 7

The biological clock

Answer 7

Circadian rythem

Question 8

Senses are activated vs interpretation of a stimulus

Answer 8

Sensation/perception

Question 9

A dream is a wish your heart makes

Answer 9

Freud

Question 10

Previously meaningless stimulus becomes meaningful

Answer 10

Classical condition

Question 11

Method of helping people overcome fear

Answer 11

Desensitizion

Question 12

Behavior increases in frequency if it is rewarded

Answer 12

Operant condition

Question 13

Unpredictable pop quizzes

Answer 13

Variable interval

Question 14

Shortcuts or rules of the home for solving problems

Answer 14

Heuristics

Question 15

Believe children learn through asimulation and accommodation

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Piaget

Question 16

Organizing perceptions into whole

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Gestalt

Question 17

People have freedom to choose

Answer 17

Humanism

Question 18

Split in consciousness

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Disassociate

Question 19

Who receives the treatment

Answer 19

Experimental group

Question 20

Taking it out on someone else

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Displacement

Question 21

Learning that shows up later

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Latent

Question 22

Removing unpopular stimulus

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Negative reinforcement

Question 23

Small things earned in order to get something else desired

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Token economy

Question 24

Behavior returns after extinction

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Spontaneous recovery

Question 25

Part or subconscious that is the Ideal

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Super ego

Question 26

Consistent part of a personality

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Trait

Question 27

Gap between sending neuron's in recovering neurons

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Synapse

Question 28

Unlearned natural response

Answer 28

Unconditioned response

Question 29

Control and processing center of the brain

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Cerebral cortex

Question 30

Time of life when learning is optimal

Answer 30

Critical period

Question 31

Two desirable choices

Answer 31

Approach approach

Question 32

Using psychology to help people in the real world

Answer 32

Applied psychology

Question 33

Studying different ages at the same time

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Cross section

Question 34

Brain will only allow certain amount of pain

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Gate control theory

Question 35

Research in which neither party knows test or placebo

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Double blind

Question 36

Memory of recent past with a great recall of detail

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Eidetic

Question 37

Young animals bond with early models

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Imprinting

Question 38

Controls temperature, hunger, thirst, andmotion

Answer 38

Hypothalamus

Question 39

Observational learning by imitation

Answer 39

Modeling

Question 40

Emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives

Answer 40

Phyco analysis