psychology final

Question 1

Four goals of psych?

Answer 1

Describe, predict, explain, and change behavior

Question 2

Biopsychology

Answer 2

hormones, chemicals, genetics

Question 3

social culture

Answer 3

social and culture

Question 4

psychodynamic

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unconcious, freud, repressed

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Humanistic

Answer 5

Free will, Carl Rogers, actualization

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Evolutionary

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Darwin. Survival of the fittest

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Behavioral

Answer 7

learning. reinforced

Question 8

Cognitve

Answer 8

behave the way you do because of thoughts

Question 9

dendrite

Answer 9

the short branch that is an extension of a nerve cell. This recieves signals

Question 10

Soma

Answer 10

cell body of a neuron and contains nucleolus

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Axon

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long threadlike part of nerve cell in which the impulses are conducted

Question 12

serotonin

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mood, sleep and appetite

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Dopamine

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movement and sensations of pleasure

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Endorphins

Answer 14

involved in pain relief

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Norepinephrene

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arousal and mood

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Antagonist

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drugs that occupy receptors but do not activate them

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agonist

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drug that occupy receptors and activate them

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Pons

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involved in sleep, dreaming, and left to right body coordination

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Cerebellum

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controls involuntary, rapid motor movement

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Medulla

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controls breathing, swallowing, and heart rate

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Thalamus

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part of forebrain that relays information from sensory organs to the cerebral cortex

Question 22

Hippocampus

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plays a role in our learning

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Amygdala

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controls motivation and fear response. As well as interpretation of nonverbal emotional expressions

Question 24

Hypothalamus

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regulates the amount of fear, thirst, sexual drive, and aggression that we feel

Question 25

Frontal lobe

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Each of the paired lobes of the brain lying immediately behind the forehead, including areas concerned with behavior, learning, personality, and voluntary movement

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Parietal lobe

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processes touch, temperature, and body position (located at the top and back of the brain )

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Temporal lobe lobe

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just behind temples of head. this is the primary auditory cortex area. (also involved a little with language)

Question 28

Occipital lobe

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visual information from the eyes in primary visual cortex

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Top Down processing

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This initiates with our thoughts and then flow down into lower level functions such as our senses

Question 30

Bottom up processing

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starts with the senses and works its way up to the brain

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observational learning

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gaining information by watching others. (Albert Bandura)

Question 32

Procedural memory

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part of memory that is responsible for knowing how to do things - motor skills

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State dependent learning

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memories learned during a specific state will be much easier recalled when in that same state

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Foot in Door technique

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Ask for something small until you are eventually asking for something very large

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Door in face technique

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ask for something huge, then ask for something smaller and you get a no

Question 36

That’s not all technique

Answer 36

Keep adding things on to an idea to make it seem like a better idea

Question 37

Milgram studies

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how much are you willing to do when a figure of authority is telling you to do something

Question 38

Person centered therapy

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(Rogers) Patient talks and therapist listens.

Question 39

Behavior therapy

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focuses on classical and operant conditioning

Question 40

Gestalt therapy

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client accepts all of self. Role playing and leading questions to confront clients statements

Question 41

Behavioralist cause to a mood disorder

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link depression to learned helplessness

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Cognitive psychologist cause to a mood disorder

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see depression as the result of distorted thinking

Question 43

Biological psychologist cause to a mood disorder

Answer 43

variation in specific brain activity