Final exam psych
Sleepers spend more time in sleep stages __ and __ in the beginning of the night and stage ___ and ___ towards the end of the night
3 and 4, 1 and 2
What is working memory?
A mental scratchpad that allows us to hold information as we perform cognitive tasks
apprehensive participant
Answers in a socially acceptable way
What is elaboration?
Connections that are made around a stimulus
How does the hippocampus work in terms of memory?
Consolidates memories
Which of the following is an example of negative reinforcement?
Denying yourself a treat after a poor exam performance
Prescription drugs for managing pain, such as Oxycontin, are:
Depressents
Which of the following is not a presumed function of sleep?
Emotional regulation
what are the two long term memory systems?
Explicit (conscious) explicit (non conscious)
External validity vs internal validity?
External validity is weather the study is real world applicable or can be transferred Internal validity is assuring that the study itself is ran correct
Efferent nerves?
From brain to rest of body
What is anterograde amnesia?
Loss of memory for event that follows and injury
What is retrograde amnesia?
Loss of memory prior to event
Sarah wants to go to the movies, but she forgot to wash the dishes as her mother asked. As a result, she is not allowed to go to the movies. Sarah has experienced:
Negative reinforcement
what is retroactive interference?
New information interfering with old information
Function of the Occipital lobe? Temporal? Parietal?Frontal?
Occipital- eyesight Temporal- hearing and advanced visual processing Parietal- body sensations Frontal- Thinking and planning
What is proactive interference?
Old information interferes with new information
Gregory is an excellent basketball player. He is always able to gauge the distance between himself and the basket correctly, and he never misses a shot. Which of the following regions of the cerebral cortex should function most efficiently to help him use this spatial location skill?
Parietal lobe
Larry is grounded each time he hits his little brother. After a few times of being grounded, Larry's misbehavior toward his little brother decreases. Grounding Larry is an example of _____.
Positive punishment
What are the two types of retrieval quest?
Recall; retrieval of specific pieces of stored memory Recognition; Comparing a stimulus with a series of possible choices
What is sensation and perception in relation to one another
Sensation is the feeling and perception is making sense of that feeling.
Affernt nerves?
Sensory nerves (from nerves to brain)
Which of the following scenarios illustrates the effective functioning of the right hemisphere of the human brain?
Singing a song
Difference threshold (just noticeable)
Smallest level of change in a stimulus that can be detected
Any time a question uses social norm it is under the umbrella of ________ approach
Sociocultural
How does the amygdala work in relation to memory?
Stores emotion based memories
In the context of the neural impulse, what part of the neuron send out message to other neurons after receiving information via the neural impulse?
The dendritis
The good participant role
The good participant role is someone who answers in a way they think the researcher will want them to
Webers law
The just noticeable is a constant proportion of the intensity of initial stimulus
What is the right hemisphere of the brain responsible for vs the left?
The right is the artistic side, left is the logical side
Absolute threshold?
The smallest intensity a stimulus must be present at to be detected 50% of the time
Theory vs hypothesis
Theory is a broad idea (must be falsifiable) a hypothesis is a prediction stated in a way that allows it to be tested (hypothesis is based on theory)
What are the main goals of psychology?
To predict, describe, explain and control behavior
Top down processing vs bottom up?
Top down is looking at the whole to make sense of the individual pieces bottom up is looking at each piece to make sense of the whole
What stage of sleep are night terrors present in? what ages?
close to rem (stage 4), 3-8 years
What Is episodic memory? What is semantic memory? what purpose do they serve?
episodic; Biographical life experinces Semantic; world knowledge Specific facts and infomation
The faithful participant
follows instructions perfectly
When Teresa watches sports on TV, her hands get clammy and she begins to get anxious as the time begins to run out for her favorite team. What mechanism is likely responsible for this effect?
mirror nuerons
What stage of sleep does sleep walking occur in? how old are sleepwalkers usually
stages 3-4. ages 6-12
What are flashbulb memories?
very vivid memories of specific or surprising events NOT ALWAYS ACCURATE
