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Exam 4 Intro to Psych JCCC Final Exam
Questions and Answers
Hindsight Bias - Answer--The tendency you believe, after learning an outcome, that one
would have foreseen it. Ex. "I knew it!"

Overconfidence - Answer-Tendency to overestimate our ability to make correct
predictions

Hypothesis - Answer-- A testable prediction, often implied by a theory

Experiment - Answer-A research study conducted to determine the effect that one
variable has upon another variable.
a procedure that is used to test a hypothesis

Part of a Neuron and functions - Answer-Dendrites - receives signals from other
neurons
Cell body - nucleus with chromosomes signals recieved from dendrites pass through the
cell body and send out through the axons.
Axon - sends signals to other neurons
Myelin -insulating layer of fat composed of glial cells that can for a myelin sheath over
some axons for a faster transmission.
Synapse- is a junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite and
cell body of the receiving neuron.

neurotransmitters - Answer-chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps between
neurons Names: Acetylcholine, dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, gaba, glutamte

hormones - Answer-chemicals produced by your glands that are released into the
bloodstream, that regulate the activities of different body cells

collectivist/individualistic cultures - Answer-Collectivist culture - culture that focuses on
communal relationships with others such as family, friends, and community.

individualistic culture - culture that focuses on individual achievement and autonomy

learning - Answer-the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or
behaviors

cognition - Answer-all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating

motivation - Answer-a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior

, drive - Answer-state of arousal/tension that motivates behaviors; ex. Hunger, thirst

circadian rhythm - Answer-the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a
24-hour cycle

environment - Answer-every non-genetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people
and things around us

conservation - Answer-the principle (by Piaget) that a given quantity
(mass,volume,number) does not change when its appearance is changed

teratogens - Answer-agents that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal
development and cause harm

memory - Answer-The persistence of learning over time through the in encoding,
storage, and retrieval of information

achievement test/aptitude test - Answer-tests designed to assess what a person has
learned.

tests designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn

emotion - Answer-a response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal,
expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.

effects of poverty - Answer-- Even if you are not well off, if you have enough means to
provide the basic resources need and have some control over life, you are more likely to
be happy then those with wealth beyond basic needs.

general adaption syndrome - Answer-A sequence of physical responses to any stressor.
Alarm, Resistance and Exhaustion

sympathetic nervous system - Answer-fight or flight response

the division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing its
energy

adaption level phenomenon - Answer-our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of
light, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience

stress appraisal - Answer-the assessment of an event to determine whether its
implications are pos, neg, or neutral

the process by which a person interprets a stressor as a threat or a challenge

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