Foundations of psychology Exam Questions and Answers
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Psychology
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Psychology
Biopsychosocial Model - Answers Behavior and mental processes best understood as a combination of biological, physical, and cultural factors.
split brain person - Answers Someone who's corpus callous has been severed
proximity - Answers associate things close together in space
Central nervous sy...
Foundations of psychology Exam Questions and Answers
Biopsychosocial Model - Answers Behavior and mental processes best understood as a combination of
biological, physical, and cultural factors.
split brain person - Answers Someone who's corpus callous has been severed
proximity - Answers associate things close together in space
Central nervous system - Answers brain and spinal cord
Figure ground - Answers what you focus on is the figure and everything else is in the background
sensation - Answers getting info from the world into the brain
(sensory process)
Binocular (rentinal)
Dispority (3D perception) - Answers each eye gets slightly different images of the object if close and if it
is far it's identical
Amygdala - Answers Involved in the ability to recognize and emotionally change memory
mind - Answers mental processes and events including thoughts, perceptions, motivations, memories,
and feelings.
Terminal Button - Answers the part at which chemical communications are sent out to others neurons
Broca's Area - Answers located on the left side of the frontal lobe. Can understand what people are
saying but not speak back.
(Expressive Aphasia)
Pons - Answers Serves as bridge between cerebellum
Levels of analysis and perspectives - Answers Biological
Behavioral
Cognitive
Emotional
Sociocultural
Sympathetic - Answers Stomach: Inhibits digestion
Sympathetic - Answers Eyes: dialates pupils and inhibits tears
, Survey - Answers descriptive behavior, attitudes, or opinion of a large group of people
Closure - Answers mind can fill in gaps to make whole (ex. shapes)
Action potentials - Answers cell has a resting potential and then when it has enough excitatory signals
depolarization occurs and an electrical charge that goes down the length of an axon
Positive correlations - Answers both categories in a study vary in same direction
Cerebral Cortex - Answers Structure and functions
Left and right hemispheres
connected by corpus callosum
divided in to lobes
thoughts and planning make sense of what you see
Synaptic receptors - Answers receptors are embedded in the membrane of dendrites to receive
chemical messages from the terminals of other neurons
serotonin - Answers effects mood, sleep, appetite, and sexual behaviors
Forebrain - Answers Includes: limbic system, thalamus and cerebral cortex
Hypothalamus - Answers feeding, fighting, fleeing, and ****ing
Reticular Formation - Answers sleep and arousal
Motor Cortex - Answers Located in the frontal lobe. moves your body
Frontal lobe - Answers problem solving, reasoning, and organizing
Synaptic cleft - Answers space between axon and dendrite
Temporal lobe - Answers processes auditory information
Nucleus Accumbens - Answers Reward center, dopamine, how much effort you are willing to spend to
get pleasure.
Occipital lobe - Answers Basic interpretation of visuals (crosses over in brain)
Thalumus - Answers Sensory switch board: everything taken in by senses is relayed here except smell
Basal ganglia - Answers regulates body movements
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