Case Study
A patient can no longer form new long-term memories after brain surgery, but their old memories remain intact.
What is the hippocampus
What social phenomenon explains why individuals are less likely to help a victim when other people are present?
What is the bystander effect?
Using existing ideas and changing them to fit new situations and requirements
Accommodation
Application
Problem solving
What is “1. accommodation”
Question: Which of the following is/are true regarding bipolar disorders?
A. They have little, if any, genetic heritability.
B. They are associated with increased levels of serotonin in the brain.
C. They all require at least one depressive episode for diagnosis.
B. Bipolar disorders have been shown to be highly heritable and are associated with increased levels of norepinephrine and serotonin in the brain
When people are in deep sleep, which type of brain wave (EEG) will we observe?
A) High frequency, low amplitude delta wave
B) Low frequency, high amplitude delta wave
C) High frequency, low amplitude delta wave
B) Low frequency, high amplitude delta wave
After a stroke, a patient understands language but speaks in slow, broken sentences with missing words.
What is Broca’s Area
What explains why we have better recall for early list items?
What is primacy effect?
This Swiss psychologist is best known for his theory of four distinct stages of cognitive development, including the sensorimotor and preoperational stages.
Who is Jean Piaget?
A rat in a shuttle box is presented with a tone followed by an electric shock. It can jump over the barrier to the other side of the shuttle box where no shock is delivered. This procedure is repeated over a number of trials. The rat will be conditioned through which type of reinforcement?
Positive reinforcement
Negative reinforcement
Positive punishment
Negative punishment
B Negative reinforcement
What neurotransmitter is associated with motor movements and is deficient in those with Parkinson’s?
What is dopamine
A person sees normally but cannot recognize familiar faces, including their own in a mirror.
What is the fusiform face area (FFA)?
What term can be used to define the mental frameworks individuals use to organize information and understand the world?
What are schemas
According to Piaget, this is the understanding that objects continue to exist even when they cannot be seen, heard, or touched
What is object permanence?
Which experimental scenario is most likely to result in social facilitation?
A. A group of participants, who initially agree on social issue, are asked to discuss their views with each other
B. A group of participants, who initially disagree on a social issue, are asked to discuss their views with each other
C. A participant is asked to solve a complex puzzle in front of other participants
D. A participant is asked to solve an easy puzzle in front of other participants
D (A participant is asked to solve an easy puzzle in front of other participants)
This structure in the brain regulates hormones, maintains homeostasis, and influences emotional and physical states (like hunger and thirst)?
What is the hypothalamus?
A person consistently perceives specific colors when viewing letters or numbers (e.g., “A” is always red, “5” is always green), even though the stimuli are not actually colored.
What is synesthesia?
What phenomenon occurs when you fail to notice a fully visible object because your attention is focused elsewhere?
What is inattentional blindness?
In Erikson’s model of psychosocial development, this is the stage in which infants are learning if their caregivers are reliable.
What is Trust VS Mistrust?
A student neglects her studies and spends most of her time engaging in extracurricular activities. When her parents confront her, the student says that all her peers behave the same way. Which explanation for the student's actions is most likely from a proponent of the humanistic perspective?
A. The student is positively reinforced for extracurricular activities and presents her behavior as average to avoid punishment from her parents.
B. The student uses projection as a defense to reduce the subconscious conflict that arises from neglecting school work.
C. The student is attempting to reduce the incongruence between the ideal self and the actual self by normalizing her behavior.
D. The student uses rationalization to reduce the cognitive dissonance that arises from the discrepancy between her behavior and her parents' expectations.
C (The student is attempting to reduce the incongruence between the ideal self and the actual self by normalizing her behavior)
This almond-shaped structure in the limbic system is the primary brain region responsible for processing "fight or flight" emotions like fear and aggression.
What is the amygdala?
A college student experiences periods of depression along with episodes of elevated mood that include increased energy and productivity, but no severe impairment or hospitalization.
What is Bipolar II disorder?
What bias leads people to judge the likelihood of events based on how easily examples come to mind?
What is Availability heuristic?
The automatic, innate reflexes seen among infants – Moro reflex, sucking, rooting, grasping – that aid in infant’s survival and typically disappear as the brain matures?
What are primitive reflexes?
A patient experiences a debilitating depressive episode after the loss of a job. A psychologist suggests that the patient had a genetic predisposition to depression and that unemployment acted as a trigger. The psychologist is using which approach to explain the patient's depression
A. Rogers's humanistic theory
B. Beck's cognitive theory
C. The opponent process model
D. The diathesis-stress model
D (The diathesis-stress model)
These gaps in the myelin sheath allow an action potential to "jump" down the axon
what are nodes of ranvier?