Psych/Soc

Question 1

Conflict theory is what and created by who?

Answer 1

Conflict theory states that power differentials create balance and that power differentials can lead to dominance Karl Marxx

Question 2

Symbolic interactionism is what?

Answer 2

Studies that symbols/body language that we use to communicate. Different in different cultues

Question 3

Social constructionism examples?

Answer 3

The value of money Work ethic Acceptable dress Gender roles

Question 4

Education, Family, Religion, Government, Economy, Medicine are all examples of what?

Answer 4

Social institutions

Question 5

What does beneficence mean?

Answer 5

Physician has responsibility to act in patients best interest

Question 6

What does nonmaleficence mean?

Answer 6

do no harm

Question 7

Race is determined by ______ factors and ethinicity is determined by ______ factors

Answer 7

phenotypic cultural

Question 8

What is the Kinsey scale?

Answer 8

Scale form 0-6 0 is straight 6 is homosexual

Question 9

Fertility rate is what?

Answer 9

children per woman per lifetime

Question 10

Birth rate = ?

Answer 10

Children per 1000 people

Question 11

Mortality rate = ?

Answer 11

deaths per 1000 people per year

Question 12

Migration rate = ?

Answer 12

Immigration - emigration rate

Question 13

What does anomie mean?

Answer 13

lack of social norms

Question 14

What is the strain theory?

Answer 14

anomic conditions (lacking social norms) leads to deviance EX: excessive individualism, social inequality, isolation

Question 15

What is an example of a way one could gain social capital?

Answer 15

Social media/networks

Question 16

What is plutocracy?

Answer 16

a rule by the upper classes

Question 17

What is social mobility?

Answer 17

The climb or falling of ones social status

Question 18

What is social reproduction?

Answer 18

Passing on status from one to the next, like poverty

Question 19

What is social exclusion?

Answer 19

When poor individuals feel alienated from society can cause further issues

Question 20

Incidence is define as?

Answer 20

new cases of illness / population at risk / time

Question 21

Prevalence is defined as?

Answer 21

total cases of illness / total population / time

Question 22

What is second sickness?

Answer 22

exasberating of health outcomes due to social injustice

Question 23

Women mortality and morbidity rates, compared to men?

Answer 23

Lower Higher

Question 24

What does functionalism mean? What is a function? A dysfunction? Manifest function? Latenet function?

Answer 24

Functionalism looks at structure and function of society A function is something or someone beneficial to society A dysfunction is opposite that Manifest function is an action intended to help Latent function is an unintended action that helps society

Question 25

JND Who created it?

Answer 25

Webers law Difference in threshhold / base-starting-initial value 440 Hz to 443 Hz 3 Hz / 440 Hz

Question 26

Anything coming from the right visual field in both eyes, is processed by the _____ side of the brain?

Answer 26

left

Question 27

Shape is determined by what cells?

Answer 27

Parvocellular cells

Question 28

Motion is determined by what cells?

Answer 28

magnocellular

Question 29

Which neuropsychologist taught phrenology, and what is it??

Answer 29

Fran's Gall Phrenology, if certain trait was well developed, it would make a bump.

Question 30

What did Pierre Flourens methods consist of?

Answer 30

Extirpation, removal of areas of the brain to see consequences

Question 31

William James and John Dewey were focused on what neuropsychological concept? And what is that?

Answer 31

Functionalism- which is adapting by mental processes

Question 32

Paul Broca linked what area to the brain?

Answer 32

Broca's area

Question 33

Sir Charles Sherrington taught about what in neuropsychology?

Answer 33

Synapses

Question 34

Herman Von helmholtz measure what?

Answer 34

The speed of a nerve impulse.

Question 35

What are the components of the hindbrain?

Answer 35

Pons Medulla oblongata Cerebellum

Question 36

What does the Pons in the hindbrain do?

Answer 36

Relay info Regulate sleep "Sleep Pon the bed"

Question 37

What does the medulla oblongata in the hindbrain do?

Answer 37

Regulates breathing "Gotta breath!" Heartbeat Blood pressure

Question 38

What does the cerebellum do?

Answer 38

Posture Balance "Bella balances"

Question 39

The midbrain consists of what?

Answer 39

Superior colliculus Inferior colliculus

Question 40

What does the superior colliculus do?

Answer 40

Receives visual sensory input "Superman has Superior vision"

Question 41

Inferior colliculus does what?

Answer 41

Receives auditory info

Question 42

Thalamus is the what? Does it for all but what?

Answer 42

Relay center Smell

Question 43

Hypothalamus 4 F's

Answer 43

Feeding Fighting Flighting Sexual Functioning

Question 44

Lateral hypothalamus

Answer 44

Triggers eating or drinking. If it was damaged one would LH Lack Hunger

Question 45

The VentroMedial Hypothalamus does what?

Answer 45

Satiety center If destroyed one would be Very Much Hungry

Question 46

The Anterior hypothalamus does what?

Answer 46

Controls sexual behavior If it were to be destroyed one would be Asexual

Question 47

Diencephalon parts?

Answer 47

Hypothalamus Thalamus Posterior pituitary Pineal gland

Question 48

What hormones does the posterior pituitary release? What does it differentiate from?

Answer 48

ADH Oxytocin Diencephalon

Question 49

Telencephalon consists of what?

Answer 49

Basal ganglia Limbic system Cerebral cortex

Question 50

Basal ganglia coordinates what? What disease is associated with this?

Answer 50

Muscle movement Parkinson's

Question 51

Limbic system consists of what?

Answer 51

Septal nuclei Amygdala Hippocampus

Question 52

Amygdala's role?

Answer 52

Defensive/aggressive behavior

Question 53

Frontal lobe is the ________ function

Answer 53

Executive

Question 54

Parietal lobe helps us with _______ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 54

Spatial processing

Question 55

Where is the motor cortex?

Answer 55

Frontal lobe

Question 56

Where is the somatosensory cortex?

Answer 56

The Parietal lobe

Question 57

What does the corpus callosum do?

Answer 57

Connects the hemispheres

Question 58

which variable, the independent or the dependent variable is manipulated by the scientist?

Answer 58

The independent

Question 59

Which variable between the independent and the dependent variable is being measured???

Answer 59

The dependent

Question 60

A casual relationship in research happens when?

Answer 60

The independent variable is needed and causes change on the dependent variable.

Question 61

One word Accuracy = _______ Precision = \_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 61

True consistent

Question 62

What is a cohort study?

Answer 62

Divided into two groups based on risk factors then observed Smoking versus non smoking observed over twenty years

Question 63

Cross-sectional studies do what?

Answer 63

group patients at single POINTS IN TIME Ex: determining the prevalence of lung cancer in smokers vs. nonsmokers at given POINT OF TIME

Question 64

What is case-controlled studies?

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Identify subjects with outcomes and look BACKWARDS at risk factors Pts w/ and w/o lung cancer, look at history of smoking HISTORY

Question 65

What does hills criteria tell us?

Answer 65

If a relationship is casual or not (independent effects dependent)

Question 66

What is selection bias?

Answer 66

When subjects used for the study are not representative of the target population

Question 67

What is detection bias?

Answer 67

Using prior knowledge in a biased way, looking harder for something you think might be there

Question 68

What is the hawthorne effect also called? What is it?

Answer 68

Observation bias Behavior of subjects changes, because they know they are being studied

Question 69

Confounding error source means what?

Answer 69

Data analysis error

Question 70

What is generalizability in studies?

Answer 70

High generalizability will highly reflect the target population

Question 71

What is the mode?

Answer 71

The number that appears the most

Question 72

In a negatively skewed distribution the mean will be _____ than the median

Answer 72

lower

Question 73

In a positively skewed distribution the mean will be _____ than the median?

Answer 73

higher

Question 74

Probability, if you see the word AND then....? If you see the word OR then.....? One OF two then....?

Answer 74

Multiply Add Add - probability of both happening together

Question 75

If the p value is greater than α .... ?

Answer 75

Dont reject null hypothesis No difference Results are not statistically different

Question 76

If the p value is less than α then.... ?

Answer 76

Reject null hypothesis Significant difference in two studied groups Alternative hypothesis is true

Question 77

A type I error is?

Answer 77

when you say test results were significant and it wasn't. No difference You reject the null hypothesis but shouldn't have.

Question 78

A type II error is?

Answer 78

When we report no difference when there is actually significant difference. We should have rejected Null hypothesis but we didn't

Question 79

Semicircular canalas deal with what kind of rotation?

Answer 79

Circular

Question 80

What part of the inner ear is sensitive to linear acceleration?

Answer 80

Vestibule

Question 81

Sound goes through which media?

Answer 81

Perilymph

Question 82

What organ has all the hair cells on it?

Answer 82

Organ of corti

Question 83

What is the excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain?

Answer 83

Glutamate