Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4)

Question 1

Who was the founder of psychology?

Answer 1

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 2

Who was the Father of American psychology?

Answer 2

William James

Question 3

What is a tentative explanation or educated guess?

Answer 3

hypothesis

Question 4

Who was the father of behaviorism?

Answer 4

John Watson

Question 5

What theory of personality is used most often in research now?

Answer 5

Five Factor theory or Big Five (OCEAN)

Question 6

Who created the hierarchy of needs?

Answer 6

Abraham Maslow

Question 7

What is the highest level of the hierarchy of needs?

Answer 7

self-actualization

Question 8

A correlation means one thing causes another. True or false?

Answer 8

False

Question 9

What is an in-depth, detailed examination of a particular case?

Answer 9

case study

Question 10

What is an experiment where the participants do not know to which group they have been assigned?

Answer 10

single-blind

Question 11

What is it called when someone has improvement from a medication that has no therapeutic value?

Answer 11

placebo effect

Question 12

What kind of experiment studies a group for several years?

Answer 12

longitudinal

Question 13

What is the ability to get the same consistent result from a test?

Answer 13

reliability

Question 14

What protects the axon and speeds up transmission of signals?

Answer 14

myelin sheath

Question 15

What are the two major divisions of the nervous system?

Answer 15

central and peripheral

Question 16

What part of the brain controls emotion, reasoning and memory?

Answer 16

cerebral cortex

Question 17

What part of the brain is responsible for processing hearing?

Answer 17

temporal lobe

Question 18

What part of the brain is responsible for processing vision?

Answer 18

occipital lobe

Question 19

Which sense is not routed through the thalamus?

Answer 19

smell

Question 20

Transmitter involved in mood, reward and addiction:

Answer 20

dopamine

Question 21

Nervous system is to neurotransmitters as endocrine system is to ________.

Answer 21

hormones

Question 22

Which gland is the master gland?

Answer 22

pituitary

Question 23

Which gland produces melatonin?

Answer 23

pineal

Question 24

If you are aware of what is happening in your dream, you are experiencing what?

Answer 24

lucid dream

Question 25

What disorder causes someone, usually children, to sit up and start screaming in their sleep but not wake up?

Answer 25

sleep terror

Question 26

If I need to take increasing amounts of a drug to get the same effect as the first time I took it, I have developed what?

Answer 26

tolerance

Question 27

If I watch a classroom to look for behaviors that indicate poor attention, I am doing what type of study?

Answer 27

natural observation

Question 28

The amount of time spent studying and the grade you get on a test probably has what kind of correlation?

Answer 28

positive

Question 29

A correlation of +0.5 is stronger than a correlation of -0.85. True or false?

Answer 29

false

Question 30

Which part of the nervous system is associated with the fight or flight response?

Answer 30

sympathetic