PSY200 Final UPDATED Actual Questions and CORRECT Answers
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PSY200
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PSY200
PSY200 Final UPDATED Actual Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER- structuralism; founded the first psychology lab
structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER- worked to reveal the building blocks of
consciousness, or a periodic table of thought
William James - CORRECT ANSWER- func...
PSY200 Final UPDATED Actual Questions
and CORRECT Answers
Wilhelm Wundt - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔structuralism; founded the first psychology lab
structuralism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔worked to reveal the building blocks of
consciousness, or a periodic table of thought
William James - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔functionalism
functionalism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔inspired by evoluntionary theory; Interested in
why mental processes exist
introspection - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔participants report their own mental processes
John Watson - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔behaviorism
behaviorism - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔can only study observable behaviors
little albert experiment - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔conditioned baby to fear rats (eventually
extended to any furry object)
B.F. Skinner - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔how children learn language -- through
reinforcement and receive rewards for speech sounds, then learn more complex utterances
Noam Chomsky - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔language is generative; even young children
can say or understand a series of words they've never directly experienced before; difficult to
reconcile with behaviorism
,phrenology - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔pseudoscience that measured bumps on the skull;
supposedly indicated character or mental abilities; never agreed on 'number' of mental organs
homunculus - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔tiny man
neurons - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔electrically excitable cells; communicate with each
other at synapses; discovered by Santiago Ramon y Cajal
cell body (soma) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔has a nucleus; contains many typical
cytoplasmic organelles; carries out metabolic functions
axon - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔hair-like extension; conducts electrical impulses; can be
very long
dendrite - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔receives inputs from synapse; typically branches into
tree-like processes
synapse - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔permits neuron to pass electrical signal to another
neuron
action potential - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔causes release of neurotransmitters into synaptic
cleft
glial cells - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔support and protect neurons
distributed coding - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔multiple cells fire in response to a stimulus
each face causes all neurons to fire, but pattern differs
many faces can be represented by the firing of a few cells
hierarchical processing - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔from low-level features (e.g. color) to
more complex ones
, frontal lobe - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔thinking, memory, behavior and movement
parietal lobe - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔language and touch
temporal lobe - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔hearing, learning and feelings
occipital lobe - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔vision
cerebellum - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔balance and coordination
brain stem - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔breathing, heart rate and temperature
lesion studies - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔draw causal inferences from patient with tissue
damage, or lesions, due to injury or illness
Phineas Gage - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔Foreman working on railroad. Premature blast
propelled iron rod through his skull. Damaged left frontal lobe, left him disinhibited
Henry Molaison (HM) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔severe epilepsy; bilateral resection of
medial temporal lobes
couldn't form new long-term memories (anterograde amnesia)
short-term and procedural memory intact
Kent Cochrane (KC) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔motor cycle accident; bilateral
hippocampal loss
couldn't remember events from his personal past (episodic memory)
knowledge about the world (semantic memory) intact
single dissociation - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔patients with a lesion and control group
differ on a behavioral task
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