psychology mid-term

Question 0

What are hallucinogens?

Answer 0

Ecstasy, marijuana

Question 1

What is a stimulants?

Answer 1

Caffeine

Question 2

What are depressants?

Answer 2

Alcohol, heroin

Question 3

What is the biggest question in Psychology?

Answer 3

Nature or nurture?

Question 4

The first Psychology textbook–Principles of Psychology– was published in _____ by ____

Answer 4

1890 – William James

Question 5

Allowed to sleep unhindered, most adult sleep

Answer 5

9 hours

Question 6

Adequate sleep can result in all of the following except

Answer 6

Increasing vivid dreaming

Question 7

Dreams

Answer 7

Occur during REM sleep
Can sometimes be bizarre and confusing
Can some times contain environment stimuli

Question 8

Why can the old brain be referred to as the basement of the brain

Answer 8

-bottom of the brain

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Question 9

Why do mean draw in the public bathrooms as when do not?

Answer 9

Men are less trained

Question 10

When you something on the shelf. Studies have showed that I actually start to reach for it but then I do not?

Answer 10

The upper and lower tract

Question 11

What is stereotype threat?

Answer 11

It’s creates low scores for people

Question 12

What is internal attribution?

Answer 12

When men succeed in something they think they raw the best

Question 13

What is external attribution?

Answer 13

When women think they are the best

Question 14

What is the function of he amygdala?

Answer 14

Motion memory

Question 15

Nurture works on what nature endows means that

Answer 15

Nature and nurture work together to shape behavior and mental process

Question 16

Psychology is a crossword discipline because it

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Incorporates elements of the hard and soft sciences

Question 17

A behavior is the product of motivation and incentives

Answer 17

Cognitive

Question 18

A behavior is the product of childhood traumas and various hidden features

Answer 18

Psychodynamic

Question 19

A behavior is the product of ones DNA inherent from parents

Answer 19

Genetic

Question 20

Hindsight bias and overconfidence to over estimate our

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Abilities

Question 21

Components of sciences

Answer 21

Skepticism

Curiosity

Question 22

The strode of psychology cane be considered dangerous because

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Yields knowledge that can be used to manipulated

Question 23

People can participate in a psychology experiment only if marketed

Answer 23

They are not harmed by it

Their confidentially is protected

Question 24

A _________ is a chemical messenger in the brain

Answer 24

Neurotransmitter

Question 25

The brain is an ________ circuit

Answer 25

Electrical

Question 26

When a person experiences jet leg or daylight savings time, the ______ is disrupted

Answer 26

Circadian rhythm

Question 27

A sleep cycle usually last about

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90 seconds

Question 28

The deep stage of sleep is

Answer 28

Stage 4

Question 29

REM stands for

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Rapid eye movement

Question 30

People do not act out their dreams because

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Nerve signals tot eh muscles are blocked

Question 31

A highly sleep deprived person who falls asleep can sometimes straight to REM sleep. This is called

Answer 31

REM rebound

Question 32

Dreams

Answer 32

Occur during REM sleep
Can some times be blizzard and confusing
Can sometimes contain environment stimuli

Question 33

Sleep talking is in stage ______

Answer 33

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