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Exam 4 Intro to Psych JCCC Final Exam Questions and Answers
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Exam 4 Intro to Psych JCCC Final ExamQuestions and Answers
Hindsight Bias - Answer--The tendency you believe, after learning an outcome, that one
would have foreseen it. Ex. "I knew it!"
Overconfidence - Answer-Tendency to overestimate our ability to make correct
predictions
Hypothesis - Answer-- A testable prediction, often implied by a theory
Experiment - Answer-A research study conducted to determine the effect that one
variable has upon another variable.
a procedure that is used to test a hypothesis
Part of a Neuron and functions - Answer-Dendrites - receives signals from other
neurons
Cell body - nucleus with chromosomes signals recieved from dendrites pass through the
cell body and send out through the axons.
Axon - sends signals to other neurons
Myelin -insulating layer of fat composed of glial cells that can for a myelin sheath over
some axons for a faster transmission.
Synapse- is a junction between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite and
cell body of the receiving neuron.
neurotransmitters - Answer-chemical messengers that cross the synaptic gaps between
neurons Names: Acetylcholine, dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine, gaba, glutamte
hormones - Answer-chemicals produced by your glands that are released into the
bloodstream, that regulate the activities of different body cells
collectivist/individualistic cultures - Answer-Collectivist culture - culture that focuses on
communal relationships with others such as family, friends, and community.
individualistic culture - culture that focuses on individual achievement and autonomy
learning - Answer-the process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or
behaviors
cognition - Answer-all the mental activities associated with thinking, knowing,
remembering, and communicating
motivation - Answer-a need or desire that energizes and directs behavior
, drive - Answer-state of arousal/tension that motivates behaviors; ex. Hunger, thirst
circadian rhythm - Answer-the biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a
24-hour cycle
environment - Answer-every non-genetic influence, from prenatal nutrition to the people
and things around us
conservation - Answer-the principle (by Piaget) that a given quantity
(mass,volume,number) does not change when its appearance is changed
teratogens - Answer-agents that can reach the embryo or fetus during prenatal
development and cause harm
memory - Answer-The persistence of learning over time through the in encoding,
storage, and retrieval of information
achievement test/aptitude test - Answer-tests designed to assess what a person has
learned.
tests designed to predict a person's future performance; aptitude is the capacity to learn
emotion - Answer-a response of the whole organism, involving physiological arousal,
expressive behaviors, and conscious experience.
effects of poverty - Answer-- Even if you are not well off, if you have enough means to
provide the basic resources need and have some control over life, you are more likely to
be happy then those with wealth beyond basic needs.
general adaption syndrome - Answer-A sequence of physical responses to any stressor.
Alarm, Resistance and Exhaustion
sympathetic nervous system - Answer-fight or flight response
the division of the autonomic nervous system that arouses the body, mobilizing its
energy
adaption level phenomenon - Answer-our tendency to form judgments (of sounds, of
light, of income) relative to a neutral level defined by our prior experience
stress appraisal - Answer-the assessment of an event to determine whether its
implications are pos, neg, or neutral
the process by which a person interprets a stressor as a threat or a challenge
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