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PSYCHOLOGY 2 EXAM #1 QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
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PSYCHOLOGY 2 EXAM #1 QUESTIONSWITH COMPLETE ANSWERS
Social psychology - answer-study of how people influence other people's thoughts,
feelings, and actions
Structuralism - answer-the idea that conscious experience can be broken down into its
basic underlying components
Functionalism - answer-an approach concerned with the adaptive purpose, or function,
of mind and behavior.
Introspection - answer-systematic examination of subjective mental experiences that
requires people to inspect and report on the content of their thoughts
Gestalt psychology - answer-theory based on the idea that the whole of personal
experience is different from the sum of its constituent elements (if shown a triangle, they
see a triangle, not 3 lines)
Psychoanalysis - answer-method developed by freud that attempts to bring the contents
of the unconscious into conscious awareness so that conflicts can be revealed
( focused on unconscious, repression, early childhood memories)
Unconscious - answer-place where mental processes operate below the level of
conscious awareness
Behaviorism - answer-approach that emphasizes the role of environmental forces in
producing observable behavior
Hypothesis - answer-a specific, testable prediction narrower than the theory it is based
on
Theory - answer-model of ideas or concepts that explains what is observed and makes
predictions about future events; involves interaction
Independent variable - answer-the factor that gets manipulated in a research study
Dependent variable - answer-the factor that gets measured in a research study
(outcome after manipulation)
Control group - answer-participants in an experiment who receive no intervention or
receive an intervention unrelated to the independent variable being investigated
(receive standard treatment, their results are compared to the experimental group)
, Paradigm - answer-a theory of dominant view, may shift should results or assumptions
be wrong
Repression - answer-the action of subduing someone or something by force
Glove anesthesia - answer-a conversion disorder in which a person cant feel their hand.
Neurologically this is impossible because the sensory nerves of the hand and arm are
organized.
Random sampling - answer-taken at random from a population (unbiased)
Random assignment - answer-placing research participants into conditions of an
experiment that has an equal chance of being assigned to any level of the independent
variable
Pseudopsychology - answer-not based on or consistent with scientific evidence (palm
readings, phrenology, graphology)
Neuron - answer-basic cell in nervous system that receive, integrate and transmit info
Axon - answer-long tube like structure, carries information to other neurons
Dendrites - answer-branch like structures of the neuron that detect information
Glial cells - answer-grey fatty cells;
Support for neurons to grow on and around;
Deliver nutrients;
Produces myelin to coat axons
Myelin sheath - answer-fatty substances made up of glial cells- insulate, protect, and
speed up neural impulse
Action potential - answer-electrical signal that passes along the axon and subsequently
causes the release of chemicals from the terminal button
Neurotransmitter - answer-chemical substances that transmit signals from one neuron
to another
Reuptake - answer-process where a neurotransmitter is taken back into the presynaptic
terminal buttons, stopping activity
Phrenology - answer-region of the skull is associated with a feature, meant to reflect
and prove whats occurring in the brain
Brain stem - answer-extension of the spinal cord; it houses structures that control
functions associated with survival (such as heart rate, breathing, swallowing, etc)
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