PSYCH 2000 EXAM 1 LSU QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Clinical psychology - Answer-A professional with an academic degree and specialized training in one or more areas of psychology
Psychiatry - Answer-Medical doctors provide medicine and therapy for those with medical disorders
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PSYCH 2000 EXAM 1 LSU QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Clinical psychology - Answer-A professional with an academic degree and specialized
training in one or more areas of psychology
Psychiatry - Answer-Medical doctors provide medicine and therapy for those with
medical disorders
case study - Answer-Descriptive technique where one person is studied in great detail.
Provides a great amount of detail
Rene' Decartes - Answer-Rationalist
Rationalist - Answer-Only prove things through logic
Empiricist - Answer-Can only have knowledge through what you observe
John Locke - Answer-Empiricist (Also Hume and Berkley)
control group - Answer-Group in an experiment where conditions are kept the same
Dependent Variable - Answer-Variable in the experiement that represents the
measurable response or behavior of the subjects in the experiment
Indirect Variable - Answer-Variable in the experiment that is manipulated by the
experimenter-*the variable that gets changed*
representative sample - Answer-Randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger
population of subjects
Herman Ebbinghaus - Answer-Created the nonsense syllable which he invented so that
he could study memory
Why a nonsense syllable was used to test memory by Ebbinghaus - Answer-has no
meaning so used as novel stimuli
Ebbinghaus discovery about learning - Answer-We forget almost everything we learn,
but forget less each time we learn it again
Forgetting Curve - Answer-Plot of times learning something vs memory retention
How many repitions did Ebbinghaus have to study his list before he remembered
everything? - Answer-Five
, Noam Chomsky - Answer-Linguist, student of the study of thought
Wrote a book titled In Defense of Freedom and Dignity
Said conditioning doesn't prove language: we can still understand nonsense sentences
B. F. Skinner - Answer-Biggest proponent of behaviorism
Created the baby box
Wrote a fictional book with an idea of a perfect eutopia (Walden 2)
He was the biggest influence of psych during his time
Wrote Beyond Freedom and Dignity
The cognitive revolution - Answer-Study of thought/human mind Occurred because of
WWII
Gestalt Psychology - Answer-Didn't believe structuralism or behaviorism
Should study the conciousness
Holistic view of the concious; the whole is different from the sum of its parts
Visual illusions
Endocrine glands differ from other glands in that they release ______ which flow directly
into the bloodstream to affect target organs. - Answer-hormones
What is the primary role of the adrenal glands? - Answer-Secreting hormones
________ provides energy for the brain during stress. - Answer-Cortisol
Adrenal glands produce hormones called: - Answer-Corticoids
The first identified neurotransmitter was - Answer-Acetylcholine
In the disease _______, the myelin sheath is destroyed. - Answer-Multiple sclerosis
Endorphins help the body - Answer-Control pain
When neurons fire and send messages - Answer-They do so in an all or none fashion
Two kinds of cells that primarily make up the brain - Answer-Neurons and glial Cells
If the neurotransmitter acetylcholine is blocked - Answer-Convulsions and death could
occur
SSRIs primary function is to - Answer-Block reuptake of serotonin to help control
depression
An agonist - Answer-is a chemical that mimics or enhances a neurotransmitter on the
receptor sites of the cell and either increases or decreases the activity of that cell
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