Psy 101 Midterm

Question 1

Experiments

Answer 1

Force a change

Question 2

Surveys

Answer 2

Ask and tell

Question 3

Observations

Answer 3

Watch and learn

Question 4

Natural observation

Answer 4

Outside in

Question 5

Ethnology

Answer 5

Inside out

Question 6

Correlation

Answer 6

Two variables that change together in a predictable way but are not caused by each other

Question 7

Causation

Answer 7

A change in one variable creates a change in another variable

Question 8

Random selection

Answer 8

Sample chosen at random (survey)

Question 9

Random assignment

Answer 9

Observation to randomly assign them to groups to be equivalent (experiment)

Question 10

Founder of psychology

Answer 10

Dr. Whilhelm Wundt

Question 11

Autonomic nervous system

Answer 11

(Automatic) regulates internal organs

Question 12

Peripheral nervous system

Answer 12

Everything except the brain and spinal cord

Question 13

Sympathetic nervous system

Answer 13

Arouses (fight or flight)

Question 14

Parasympathetic nervous system

Answer 14

Calms (rest and digest)

Question 15

Central nervous system

Answer 15

Brain and the spinal cord

Question 16

Endocrine system

Answer 16

Slow chemical system (hormones)

Question 17

PET SCAN

Answer 17

(Position Emission Tomography) allows us to see what part of the brain is active through radioactivity

Question 18

MRI

Answer 18

(Magnetic Response Imagining) see images in the brain because of brain tissue after magnets align the spin of the atoms PARTS AND STRUCTURE

Question 19

fMRI

Answer 19

(Functional) reveals brain activity and function

Question 20

EEG

Answer 20

(Electroencephalo Gram) measures electricity

Question 21

Neurology

Answer 21

Function

Question 22

Neuroanatomy

Answer 22

Structure

Question 23

Cerebellum

Answer 23

(Little brain) voluntary movement

Question 24

Thalamus

Answer 24

Switch board

Question 25

Reticular formation

Answer 25

Arousal (sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system)

Question 26

Medulla

Answer 26

Heart beat and respiration

Question 27

AmygdalA

Answer 27

Emotion and emotional memories

Question 28

Hippocampus

Answer 28

(Sea horse) memory

Question 29

Hypothalamus

Answer 29

Survival and sex (pleasure center)

Question 30

4 lobes

Answer 30

Temporal, occipital, frontal, and parietal

Question 31

Neuron

Answer 31

Nerve cell

Question 32

Axon

Answer 32

releases the neurotransmitter and send it to synapse

Question 33

Dendrite

Answer 33

Picks up message

Question 34

Synapse

Answer 34

Space between neurons

Question 35

Neurotransmitter

Answer 35

Chemical message

Question 36

Genes

Answer 36

Molecules that code for life

Question 37

Alleles

Answer 37

Additional details in DNA

Question 38

Chromosome

Answer 38

Biggest and thread like structures (has two genes)

Question 39

Genome

Answer 39

Genetic material of a Living organism

Question 40

Natural selection

Answer 40

Those organisms that adapt change overtime exist

Question 41

Mutation

Answer 41

Genetic error

Question 42

Fraternal twins

Answer 42

From separate eggs

Question 43

Paternal twins

Answer 43

One egg that separates

Question 44

Evolution

Answer 44

Change overtime

Question 45

Selective attention

Answer 45

What we focus on what we notice

Question 46

REM sleep

Answer 46

4 cycles (rapid eye movement) nREM 1, nREM 2, nREM 3, REM -dreams in 3 and rem

Question 47

Insomnia

Answer 47

Inability to fall asleep

Question 48

Effects of sleep loss

Answer 48

Death, can’t concentrate, more prone to accident, not encoding memory

Question 49

Apnea

Answer 49

Stop breathing

Question 50

Narcolepsy

Answer 50

Uncontrolled sleep fits

Question 51

Circadian Rhythm

Answer 51

Each individual cycles of being awake in a 2 hr period