Psych 118 Midterm 1

Question 0

Vitalism (person)

Answer 0

Gomez Pereira

Question 1

According to Aristotle, species are defined by…

Answer 1

Reproduction
Memory capacity
Cognitive/associative capacity

Question 2

2 classes of bx by Gomez Pereira

Answer 2

Voluntary movement

Vital movement

Question 3

2 parts of vital movement

Answer 3

Instincts

Phantom movements

Question 4

2 brain parts of phantom movements

Answer 4

Triclino (occipital cortex)

Synciput (frontal cortex)

Question 5

3 parts of Cartesian dualism

Answer 5

Mechanism
Nativism
Reflexology

Question 6

Founder of Empiricism

Answer 6

David Hartley

Question 7

“diff btwn humans and animals is education”

Answer 7

Julien de la Mattrie (Empiricist)

Question 8

A British Associationist

Answer 8

John Locke

Question 9

4 points by John Locke

Answer 9

No innate knowledge
Tabula Rasa
Knowledge through association
New ideas from mental chem

Question 10

5 Naturalists

Answer 10

Felix de Azara
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Alfred Wallace
Charles Darwin
George Romanes

Question 11

3 parts of natural selection

Answer 11

Variation
Heredity
Differential reproductive success

Question 12

Started comparative psychology

Answer 12

Georges Romanes

Question 13

Pragmatists are against…

Answer 13

Cartesian dualism

Question 14

2 Pragmatists

Answer 14

William James

Edwin Thorndike

Question 15

Father of experimental psychology

Answer 15

Edwin Thorndike

Question 16

4 Behaviorists

Answer 16

John Watson
Clark Hull
Ulric Neisser
John Garcia

Question 17

Ma Belle

Answer 17

Clark Hull

Question 18

Started cognitive psychology

Answer 18

Ulric Neisser

Question 19

2 ppl who caused split of psych into cog psych and psychobio / neurosci

Answer 19

Ulric Neisser

John Garcia

Question 20

Brain part where hormonal and emotional information converge

Answer 20

Ventral pallium

Question 21

3 possible explanations for infanticide

Answer 21

Darwinian fitness
Group selection
Social pathology

Question 22

Proximate causes for Prairie voll bx

Answer 22

Brain has dense concentration of V1 rec for vasopressin in ventral pallium
V1aR gene in central pallium incr time spent with familiar female

Question 23

Ultimate causes for Prairie Voll behavior

Answer 23

Monogamous produce more progeny especially in low density populations
Evolutionary relationship (monogamy first)

Question 24

Main functions of vasopressin

Answer 24

Reabsorption of water -> prevents urination (V2 receptors) | At high [ ], incr bp by constricting arterioles (V1 receptors)

Question 25

3 things hypothalamus does in relation to vasopressin

Answer 25

``` Releases ADH (retain water and decr plasma osmolarity) Detects increase in osmotic pressure in blood Produces thirst to incr water intake ```

Question 26

Person who researched Prairie Volls

Answer 26

Thomas Insel

Question 27

Founder of health psychology

Answer 27

Shelley Taylor

Question 28

3 functions of Oxytocin

Answer 28

Milk ejection Uterine contraction during childbirth Stress (tend and befriend)

Question 29

Cells that secrete hormones from posterior pituitary

Answer 29

Magnocellular neurosecretory cells