Psyc 355 final exam - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1. Which glial are responsible for maintaining the integrity of the extracellular fluid that surrounds neurons? A) Oligodendrocytes B) Astrocytes C) Microglial cells D) Stellate cells - B) Astrocytes 2. At what point do the sensory axons from the periphery enter the spinal cord? A) Central nuclei B) Ventral nuclei C) Dorsal root ganglia D) Ventral white matter - C) Dorsal root ganglia 3. Some neurons have long axons that stretch from one part of the CNS to another. What are these c...

the most common cause of wrongful convictions - eyewitness error the 3 stages of memory - encoding, storage, retrieval how does distance affect encoding? - the farther witnesses are from the target, the less accurate they are are identifying the target how does emotional state (stress in particular) affect encoding? - high stress = less accuracy in identifying people weapon-focus effect - tendency for the presence of a weapon to draw attention to itself, impairing a witness's abilit...

How is Dichotic Listening studied? - by asking people to wear earphones; one message is presented to the left ear, and a different message is presented to the right ear. Summarize Kosslyn's classic research on distances in mental images and scanning times. Summarize Paivio's research using mental clocks and the angles formed by the two clock hands. Do these findings support the analog position or the propositional position? - Kosslyn -seems like ppl use analog code for simple figures, and ...

Children who do not fit into Ainsworth's three original categories now are typically classified as: - disorganized secure avoidant resistant disorganized In Bowlby's attachment theory, the secure base refers to: - a special setting developed for needy, dependent infants a comfortable and safe home setting the evolutionary roots of how children become attached to caregivers the haven of safety a caretaker provides that allows a child to explore the environment the haven of safety...

Weapon-focus effect - the tendency for the presence of a weapon to draw attention and impair a witness's ability to identify the culprit Cross-race identification bias - the tendency for people to be more accurate at recognizing members of their own racial group than of other groups Misinformation effect - the tendency for false postevent misinformation to become integrated into people's memory of an event Polygraph - a mechanical instrument that records psychological arousal from mul...