General Psychology Exam 1

Brett studies how an individual grows and changes over the lifespan. What type of psychologist is Brett?

Developmental psychologist

This procedure is employed to prevent both the experimenter and the research participants from influencing the outcome of an experiment, is called what?

Double-blind procedure

All of the following are major theories of why we dream EXCEPT:

Dreams allow us to entertain adventures.

Why is REM sleep often labeled as paradoxical sleep?

During this stage of sleep physiological functions are very similar to those seen in a normal, awake person.

This brain imaging technique provides recordings of electrical brain activity called what?

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

In an experiment, one group receives a treatment, such as an experimental drug for treating anxiety disorder, while the other group receives no treatment. The group that receives treatment is called what?

Experimental Group

This brain imagining measures changes in magnetic fields related to blood oxygen level, is called what?

Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagining (fMRI)

This method of studying the mind involved asking people the examine their own thoughts.

Introspection

Who was they first women president of APA in 1905?

Mary Calkins

A skydiver or bungee jumper feels the excitement, or rush from this activity most likely because of increased activity of this neurotransmitter.

Norepinephrine

The system of neural networks that fan out from the central nervous system into various parts of the body is called what?

Peripheral Nervous System

Research has found that the more years of education a person has, the higher their salary is. Examine this finding to indicate the type of correlation.

Postive

_______ is the consistency of your measure to produce similar results in different occasions.

Reliability

When 2 variables, such was day time temperature and ice cream sales, are correlates, it is tempting to assume that one variable causes the other. This is called what?

The Correlation fallacy

which of the following individuals is considered the founder of psychology?

Wilhelm Wundt

choose which of he following questions below should be used to determine the directionality of a correlation.

all of the above

In terms of neuronal communication, there terminal endings of a(n) ________speak, or send messages to the ______ of another neuron, that listen or receive the neuronal message.

axon; dendrites

One way to study brain function is to conduct ______, which involve the process of damaging or removing a brain structure in order to see what the subsequent effects are.

brain ablations

A detailed study of an individual is called a what?

case study

the main focus of ________ psychologists is improving the lives of individuals within a community.

community

If a study is ________, the participants can be identified by information that is gathered.

confidential

In an experiment, one group receives a treatment, such as an experimental drug for treating anxiety disorder, while the other gourd receives no treatment. The group that reveries no treatment is called what?

control group

Drugs that slow down bodily functions are called ______.

depressants

If someone has a dysfunction in, or two low of level of, this neurotransmitter in various brain regions, it can lead to symptoms of Parkinson's disease, is called what?

dopamine

There are approximately ____ billion neurons in the human brain alone.

eighty six

The ____ is the largest, most complex brain structure and is integral to thought, behavior, and emotion.

forebrain

A neuron consists of all of the following structures EXCEPT what?

glands

A statement about the relationship between variables is an?

hypothesis

Tim is using a method to study the mind by asking people to examine their own thoughts. This is known as what?

introspection

In extreme cases, the body tricks itself into attracting its own myelin sheath. If this occurs , it can lead to the painful loss of muscle control, otherwise known as what?

multiple schlerosis

research that involed observing participants in their natural environment instead of a controlled laboratory is called a what?

naturalistic observation

The electrical and chemical communication system within our bodies is called the:

nervous system

All of the following are major lobes of the cerebral cortex EXCEPT:

neural lobe

The cells that make up the nervous system and transmit impulses are called:

neurons

A class of research methodologies that involves the study of how variables are related is the definition of ________?

non experimental

This brain imaging technique records changes in blood flow by sensing radioactive particles injected in the bloodstream, is called what?

positron emission tomography (PET)

Choose which type of correlation occurs when two or more variables vary in the same direction.

postive

In general, the more you study for a test, the better your grade on that test. Examine this finding to indicate the type of correlation.

postive

After a hypothesis has been tested, what is the next step in the scientific method?

reach and share a conclusion

The process of moving a neurotransmitter back into the presynaptic membrane of the releasing neuron is called ______.

reuptake

_____ is a neurotransmitter associated with emotion and sleep regulation.

serotonin

the founder of psychodynamic theory was what?

sigmund freud

The _______ nervous system is responsible for pumping adrenaline through your body in emergency situations.

sympathetic

The space between the ned of one cell's axon and another cell's dendrite is called what?

synapse

______ is defined as the ability of your measurement to accurately measure what it is supposed to measure.

validity

Which of the following disciplines were involved with the founding of psychology?

A and C

If you are deprived of REM sleep, you will:

Advance more quickly into REM stage sleep the next time you go to sleep.

Acetylcholine is a neurotransmitter that has been showmen to be invalid in learning and memory. As such, drugs that simulate the acetylcholine system or that blocks its functioning have been used to treat what?

Alzheimers disease

In an experiment, the variable that is measured by the experimenter is called the what?

Dependent Variable

Low levels of norepinephrine appear to be associated with what?

Depression