Psychology 101 Final Review

In a person's cerebellum were damaged in an accident, you would expect that person to have problem with

Balance

A woman who alternated bouts of productive and boundless energy which episodes of inactivity, feelings of worthlessness and syicife, and days in which she cannot get out of bed may be differing from the sumpronts of

Bipolar disorders

You have just read an article by a psychologist, showing that students remember best the information that learn at the beginning and end of a study session. Research falls into which subspecialties of psychology?

Cognitive

In Pavlov's classical conditioning experiments, the neutral stimulus that comes to elicit a conditioned response is known as the

Conditioned stimulus

Developmental studies that apply the ___ research method are popular because data can be collected quickly - all at one point in time

Cross-sectional

_____ refers to general factor that underlies mental ability.

Crystallized intelligence

The part of the neuron that receives chemical signals from other neurons

Dendrite

As a treatment for psychological disorders, cognitive therapy focuses on

Dysfunctional thoughts

The process of ___ could explain why after repeatedly hearing the same song on the rado, some people lose interest - even though they love the song when they first hear it.

Habituation

The scientific method begins with?

Identifying the questions

Reinforcement

Increases the likelihood of a behavior occurring again

Gardner describes an individual's ability to know his or her own feelings and emotions as

Intrapersonal intelligence

In explaining human behavior and mental processes, psychologists try to achieve all the following goals except..

Manipulation

In addition to hearing, the ear is important to our sense of

Motion and balance

The primary weakness of the case study method is

Non-generalizability or not generalizable

People who are unable to control their repetitive and purposeless behavior as their main symptoms may be suffering from psychological disorder?

OCD

In research that relies on naturalistic observation, the researcher..

Observes and does not interfere with the situation

_____ refers to the category of learning in which voluntary behavior is affected by its consequences

Operant conditioning

Psychologists define development as

Patterns of growth or change

People who are unusually short or tall may have abnormalities in which endocrine gland?

Pituitary

The hypothesis in a research study is defined as the..

Prediction stated in a theory that can be tested

Rewards such as food and water that satisfy biological needs are known as ____ reinforcers

Primary

Which psychological approach is most closely associated with Sigmund Freud?

Psychodynamic

Emotions have

Psychological and cognitive elements

Which of these is NOT among the Big Five factors of personality trait theory?

Psychoticism

When professors give essay exams, they are generally testing students (limited retrieval cues)

Recall

Binet developed an intelligence test to

Recognise needs for remediation of abilities in students who are low-achievers

The SSRIs work by allowing neurotransmitters to linger in the synapses through the process of inhibiting

Reuptake

Broca's area is primarily responsible for which function?

Speech production

Which of these was NOT proposed by Freud as one of the three elements of personality structure?

Superid

What is a neuron?

The basic unit of the nervous system

In what way are hormones and neurotransmitters similar to each other?

The both communicate messages in the body

The central nervous system (CNS) consists of

The brain and spinal cord

The definition of psychology is generally considered to be..

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Which of the following naturally elicits the response with which it is paired, even without conditioning?

Unconditioned stimulus

The main focus of clinical psychology is on which aspect of human behavior?

Understanding and treating psychological disorders

As an adult, if you were to be given an IQ test, it would most likely be the

WAIS (wechsler adult intelligence scale)

Psychology was established formally in 1879 when (also known as the father of psychology)...

Wilhelmn Wundt founded his psychology laboratory in Germany

Material held in short-term memory is typically lost after about ____ seconds unless it is shifted to long-term memory

15 - 30 seconds