What is Psychology
This school of psychology used introspection to try and determine the building blocks of psychology
Structuralism
You wish to survey a group of people who truly represent the country's adult population. Therefore, you need to ensure that you obtain a _______________ of the population.
Random sample
Name the order in which an action potential or neural impulse travels (three parts)
dendrite, axon, axon terminal
Bar graphs can be tricky, you need to look at these two things in order to get it right
scale labels and the range
Describe the difference between sensation and perception?
Top-down, bottom-up
What is dual processing?
The principle that information is simultaneously processed on separate conscious and unconscious tracks
This school of psychology focused emphasize the role of consciousness and how actions like smelling and thinking are adaptive.
Functionalism
To explain behaviors and clarify cause and effect, researchers use this type of method.
An experiment
One an action potental has been triggered, neurotransmitters are released into the ________________, it is the area between the axon terminal and the dendrite of another neuron.
synapse
Which measure of central tendency is especially vulnerable to skew (outliers)
Mean
Define transduction
What is my favorite color?
Pink
This type of psychology involves studying the mental processes of how we think, learn, remember, and communicate
Cognitive Psychology
When ice cream sales increase at the same time as burglaries, this could be called a_______ (two words)
Latifa is driving and a car swerves into her lane, just missing her; her heart is racing, and she is sweating, and visibly shaken but she is ok. What specific nervous system was activated?
Sympathetic
Name two theories of why we sleep
restore and repair, keeping us safe in the past, strengthen neural connections, problem-solving, growth
Describe the definition of temperament
aspect of personality that we are born with
Failure to see objects because our vision is occupied elsewhere is
inattentional blindness
Name the three levels of analysis in psychology
Biological, Psychological and Social
Identify the Independent Variable, the Dependent Variable, the experimental group and the control: Researchers are trying to determine if breastfed babies are smarter than formula fed babies. They create and experiment where they have 100 women, 50 breast-feeding moms and 50 formula feeding moms, and after eight years they administer an intelligence test to the child
IV: breast milk/formula, DV: intelligence test, experimental group: breast feeding moms, control: formula-feeding
This is the large band of neural fibers that connect the two hemispheres
the corpus callosum
how are the waves in NREM-1 different than N-REM-3?
The waves in NREM are short, and NREM3 are slow, big delta waves
What is the reason that researchers are interested in adoption studies?
because it allows them to research genetic transmission from parent to child by researching if adopted children are more like their birth or adopted parents.
In war time, why would it be an advantage for soldiers sleeping in close proximity to each other?
The soldiers are going through different sleep stages at different times, therefore, some is hopefully in a stage where they might be easily awakened
When we analyzed the mother who murdered her five children, we used this process in order to understand how she was capable of such a crime. Name the process and give an example of each.
Bio-psycho-social: bio (parents had disorders); psych (what was her history); social (what support did her husband and family provide)
Research shows that depression and low self-esteem are positively correlated. But, we know that correlation does not equal causation--what third or hidden variable could explain this relationship
Exercise, watching television, alcohol consumption, smart phone use, just about a number of things!
This part of the brain is responsible for coordinating movement, while this part of the brain plays a part in regulating hunger
cerebellum, hypothalamus
What is a limitation of the cognitive development explanation of dreaming?
It does not propose and adaptive function of dreams
Sneaky question!: In class, what sensation and perception concept caused some of us to see the girl rather than the old woman?
Perceptual set
What is the difference between an MRI and an fMRI?
The MRI produces images of soft tissue and the FMRI shows bloodflow--it can show function and structure.