Prologue (Story of Psychology)
Chapter 1 (Thinking Critically)
Chapter 2 (Biology of the Mind)
Chapter 3 (Consciousness and the Two-Track Mind)
Chapter 4 (Nature, Nurture, and Human Diversity)
100
Self-reflective method used by structuralists to learn about their subjects' experiences.
What is introspection?
100
An example of hindsight bias.
Answers may vary.
100
Side of brain responsible for movement in your left arm.
What is the right side of the brain?
100
What does REM stand for?
Rapid Eye Movement
100
Proposes that we learn gender identity through reinforcement, punishment, and observation.
What is the social learning theory?
200
Psychologist who focused on the influence of repressed thoughts, early human development, and the unconscious.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
200
A descriptive research strategy in which one person is studied in great depth.
What is a case study?
200
Responsible for the "fight or flight" response.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
200
Type of brain waves present during Stage IV sleep.
What are delta waves?
200
Heritability
What is the extent to which variation among individuals can be attributed to their differing genes?
300
Five (+2) main modern perspectives of psychology.
What are the psychodynamic, biological, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and evolutionary perspectives?
300
Two methods that control for subject/experimenter expectations.
What are the double-blind method and the placebo?
300
Type of drug that mimics a neurotransmitter's effects.
What is an agonist.
300
Tolerance (definition)
What is the diminishing effect of a drug after continued use?
300
Asia is to the United States as collectivism is to ______
What is individualism?
400
Only subfield of psychologists licensed to prescribe drugs.
Who are psychiatrists?
400
Five statistics that describe data.
What are mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation?
400
Parts of a nerve (4)
What are the cell body, dendrites, axon, and myelin sheaths?
400
Stimulants (name 3)
(Possible answers) What are methamphetamine, caffeine, cocaine, nicotine, ecstasy?
400
Reason females seek mates with the resources and the potential for long-term investment.
What is evolutionary psychology -- women incubate and nurse babies, so they increase their own and their children’s chances of survival by searching for mates with resources.
500
Response to the subjective, un-observable reasoning behind early psychology (structuralism, psychoanalysis)
What is the behavioral approach?
500
Percent of data in a Normal distribution that lies within one standard deviation of the mean
What is 68%
500
Parts/functions of the brain (name at least 5)
(Possible answers) What are the: occipital lobes - vision; temporal lobes - hearing; frontal lobes - speaking/judgement; parietal lobes - touch/body position; amygdala - aggression/fear
500
Reason drug addicts experience withdrawal.
Continuous presence of a drug in synapses trains the brain to stop producing the natural form of the drug on its own.
500
Order from most likely to have the same temperament to least likely: identical twins raised separately, identical twins raised together, fraternal twins raised separately, siblings raised together.
What is: 1. identical twins raised together 2. identical twins raised separately 3. siblings raised together 4. fraternal twins raised separately
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