PSY FINAL

Question 1

What is the purpose of the olfactory system?

Answer 1

It is the structure responsible for smell.

Question 2

What is the process by which the eye becomes more sensitive to light in a dark environment?

Answer 2

Dark adaptation

Question 3

An _________ is a step-by-step procedure that is guaranteed, eventually, to produce a solution.

Answer 3

Algorithm

Question 4

What are the three universal properties that all languages share?

Answer 4

Semanticity, Generativity, and Displacement

Question 5

______ is when someone observes a behavior and then imitates it

Answer 5

Modeling

Question 6

_______ is the Id’s boundless drive for immediate gratification

Answer 6

Pleasure principle

Question 7

What are nerve cells that serve as building blocks of the nervous system called?

Answer 7

Neurons

Question 8

A capacity to change as a result of experience is called…

Answer 8

Plasticity

Question 9

What is the inner core of the brain that connects to the spinal cord and contains the medulla, pons, and reticular formation?

Answer 9

the brainstem

Question 10

Good serotonin process makes you:

Answer 10

Sleep

Question 11

The visual system stores images called ions in _________.

Answer 11

Iconic memory

Question 12

__________ are recollections consciously retrieved in response to direct questions.

Answer 12

Explicit memories

Question 13

What is the capacity to learn from experience and adopt successfully to one’s environment?

Answer 13

Intelligence

Question 14

The inability to see a problem from other’s point of view is called…

Answer 14

Fixation

Question 15

___________ is the scientific study of behavior and the mind.

Answer 15

Psychology

Question 16

The __________ focuses on the links between the mind and the body

Answer 16

clinical perspective

Question 17

Learning by watching others is called.

Answer 17

Observational learning

Question 18

What term describes behavior directed against persons because of their affiliation with a social group?

Answer 18

discrimination

Question 19

__________________ is the tendency for an organ to become familiar with a stimulus as a result of repeated exposure.

Answer 19

habituation

Question 20

________ is any stimulus that strengthens a prior response.

Answer 20

reinforcement

Question 21

A perspective in psychology for evaluating human flourishing and wellness. it involves topics of maintaining optimal mental and physical health

Answer 21

Positive Psychological Perspective

Question 22

a visual sensation that persists after prolonged exposure to and removal of a stimulus is

Answer 22

afterimage

Question 23

What are the three aspects of the Freudian Iceberg Model?

Answer 23

ego, id, and superego

Question 24

__________ is when anxiety-provoked thoughts and memories are “forgotten” and pushed out of awareness

Answer 24

Repression

Question 25

What are symptoms of a burnout?

Answer 25

emotional exhaustion and disengagement

Question 26

Monism is the belief that the body and mind are…?

Answer 26

the same, or synergistic entities

Question 27

An _______ is a fixed pattern of behavior that is unlearned, universal within aa species, and is released by a specific set of conditions.

Answer 27

Instinct

Question 28

___________ is a disorder in which a person becomes so fearful of gaining weight that the person ignores hunger pangs, limits eating, becomes emaciated, and sometimes even starves to death.

Answer 28

Anorexia nervosa

Question 29

Piaget’s first stage of cognitive development, from birth to 2 years old, when infants one to know the world through their own actions is ______.

Answer 29

sensorimotor stage

Question 30

___________ is a parent-infant relationship in which the baby is secure when the parent is present, distressed by separation, and delighted by reunion.

Answer 30

Secure attachment

Question 31

negative feeling towards others based solely on their membership in a certain group is…

Answer 31

prejudice

Question 32

__________ Is the study of how individuals think, feel, and behave in social situations.

Answer 32

Social Psychology

Question 33

What is the enhanced recall of early items in a sequence called?

Answer 33

primacy

Question 34

________ and ________ are two forms information can be stored in

Answer 34

Visual and semantic

Question 35

Techniques used to modify disordered thoughts, feelings, and behaviors through the principles of learning and cognition are known as _________?

Answer 35

cognitive-behavioral therapy