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History of Psychology
The Brain
Developmental psychology and Personality
Sensation, Perception and Motivation
Sleep and Anxiety Disorders
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What is the scientific study of behavior and mental process called?
Psychology
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I am a part of the hindbrain. I help coordinate movement, especially left-right body coordination. I also influence sleep, dreaming and arousal. Who am I?
Pons
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A person's behavior, thought and emotion is called
Trait
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Detecting stimuli from the body or surroundings is called
Sensation
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Biological rhythms that occur every 24 hours is called
Circadian rhythm
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People learn responses through rewards, punishments and observation. What perspective of psychology is this?
Behavioral
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Which part of the brain is responsible for long term memories?
Hippocampus
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Exerts control by establishing/ enforcing rules but also explains the reasons. Guess the parenting style.
Authoritative
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Behavior that is driven by external rewards like money, fame etc. is called
Extrinsic Motivation
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What is melatonin?
Hormone that affects sleep patterns
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Collecting in-depth information on a single person or situation is called
Case study
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Which brain research technique involves monitoring the brain's usage of glucose?
Positron emission tomography (PET)
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What are Piaget's four stages of development?
Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete operational and Formal operational.
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The minimum stimulation needed to detect a particular stimulus 50% of the time is called
Absolute Threshold
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Donald (age 22) attended college at night while working to support his forty five year old mother. He was in love with a girl whom he hoped to marry. Donald's mother, however, did not like the girl and tried to break them up. The girl could see that Donald would never be able to support both her and his mother. She also knew that the three of them could never get along together under the same roof. She gave Donald a month to decide what to do about it. A week before the deadline, he suddenly disappeared. He was found two weeks later in another state, completely unable to say who he was, where he was, or what he was planning to do. He could not recall, or even recognize, the name of either his mother or his girl friend. Obviously this was his solution to the conflict. This behavior was not inconsistent with his previous history. In his earlier school days, he had frequently forgotten his homework and been absent minded. Forgetting things was already a convenient habit for him. Name the anxiety disorder.
Dissociative fugue
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What is the aim of applied research?
To solve practical problems.
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Which part of the brain is affected during a split-brain operation?
Corpus callosum
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Sally is able to run fast and go across the monkey bars. She wants her group of friends to see her do these things. She then feels able to develop and use his skills later in life. Which Erikson's stage of development is being described.
Industry vs. Inferiority
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Taking sensory information and then assembling and integrating it is called
Bottom-up processing
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A relatively rare condition that involves irresistible attacks of sleepiness, brief periods of REM, and often muscle paralysis is called
Narcolepsy
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Describe the social-culture perspective of psychology.
Focuses on how thinking or behavior changes in different situations or as a result of cultural influences.
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What is the frontal lobe responsible for?
It enables your most advanced cognitive abilities such as judgement and planning.
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A child is asked to add 3 and 2. Using his fingers, he counts and answers "5". Asked to then add 2+3, the child uses his fingers again to get the same answer. Identify the Piaget's stage the child is at.
Peroperational
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The minimum difference between two stimuli required for detection 50 percent of the time is called
Just Noticeable Difference
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The patient lies in bed hardly moving. He does not look at anyone passing by his bed. His facial expression is empty and unchanging. He is thin and pale and looks physically ill. He refused to eat and has to be fed by a stomach tube. He cannot control urination or defecation. Occasionally he mutters a few words like"Sin...Sinners...Hell" apparently preoccupied completely with his thoughts of sin and punishment. We are quite sure he does not know where he is - he may believe he is in hell. What anxiety disorder does the patient have?
Disorganized schizophrenia