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LSU PSYCHOLOGY 2000 EXAMINATION QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) random assignment - Answer-assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups random selection - An...

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LSU PSYCHOLOGY 2000 EXAMINATION
QUESTIONS WITH ALL CORRECT
ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
random assignment - Answer-assigning participants to experimental and control
conditions by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned
to the different groups

random selection - Answer-A way of ensuring that a sample of people is representative
of a population by giving everyone in the population an equal chance of being selected
for the sample

demand characteristics - Answer-participants change their behavior based on what they
perceive the experiment to be about

informed consent - Answer-an ethical principle that research participants be told enough
to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate

Neuron - Answer-sends and receives messages throughout the body, basic unit of the
nervous system

Soma - Answer-the cell body of the neuron responsible for maintaining the life of the cell

Dendrite - Answer-receives messages from other neurons

Nucleus - Answer-Control center of the cell. Contains DNA.

myelin sheath - Answer-fatty tissue that covers the axons to insulate, protect, and speed
up neural impulses

Axon - Answer-carries messages away from the cell body to axon terminals to
communicate with other cells

axon terminal - Answer-The endpoint of a neuron, specialized for communications
between cells

Synapse - Answer-the junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the
dendrite or cell body of the receiving neuron

Neurotransmitters - Answer-Chemicals that transmit information from one neuron to
another

, Reuptake - Answer-process by which neurotransmitters are taken back into the synaptic
vesicles

Seratonin - Answer-A neurotransmitter that affects mood, hunger, sleep, and arousal;
linked to depression

Dopamine - Answer-A neurotransmitter associated with movement, attention and
learning and the brain's pleasure and reward system, effects shown in alzhiemers and
schizophrenia

autonomic nervous system - Answer-part of the peripheral nervous system. Controls
involuntary activity of muscles and internal organs and glands. sympathetic and
parasympathetic.

sympathetic nervous system - Answer-fight or flight

parasympathetic nervous system - Answer-rest and digest

Broca's area - Answer-controls language expression

old brain - Answer-cerebellum, medulla, pons

Cerebellum - Answer-Balance and coordination

Pons - Answer-sleep and arousal, important for eye movements

Medulla - Answer-controls heartbeat and breathing and arousal, life essentials

Amygdala - Answer-A limbic system structure involved in memory and emotion,
particularly fear and aggression.

Thalamus - Answer-limbic system, the brain's sensory control center, implicated in
attention

Hypothalamus - Answer-limbic system, sleep, hunger, thirst, sex, the 4 F's

cingulate cortex - Answer-limbic system, emotional and cognitive processing

Hippocampus - Answer-limbic system, memory

limbic system - Answer-memory and emotion

cortex - Answer-newest part of the brain

corpus callosum - Answer-connects the two left and right hemispheres of the brain

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