Sem 1 Final

Question 1

Origin of psychology

Answer 1

Germany, 1879

Question 2

Milgram

Answer 2

unethical shocking experiment

Question 3

sociology

Answer 3

study of group behavior

Question 4

anthropology

Answer 4

culutre

Question 5

social psychology

Answer 5

effect of group on individual

Question 6

structuralism

Answer 6

all about experiences

Question 7

functionalism

Answer 7

about perception and behavioral patterns

Question 8

psychodynamic

Answer 8

about subconsciousness and past experiences

Question 9

behaviorism

Answer 9

only focused on behavior

Question 10

Gestalt pschology

Answer 10

stuyding ithe whole brain

Question 11

cognative psychology

Answer 11

mental processes

Question 12

clinical death vs biological death

Answer 12

clinical: no pulse, reversible
biological: brain damage due to no oxygen

Question 13

types of nerurons

Answer 13

sensory/afferent, motor/efferent, interneurons

Question 14

Ach

Answer 14

neurotransmitter for motion and attention

Question 15

dopamine

Answer 15

reward center; pleasure

Question 16

seratonin

Answer 16

sleep cycles, happiness; mood molecule

Question 17

norepinephrine

Answer 17

increases efficiency of signaling

Question 18

endorphins

Answer 18

blocks pain

Question 19

hindbrain

Answer 19

oldest. basic survival

Question 20

medulla

Answer 20

involuntary functions, transmits stuff to upper brain

Question 21

pons

Answer 21

sleep, attention

Question 22

forebrain

Answer 22

thinking and logic

Question 23

thalamus

Answer 23

senses - post office

Question 24

hypothalamus

Answer 24

motivation, bloodpressure, etc.

Question 25

cerebral cortex

Answer 25

brain cover, with gyri and sulci

Question 26

Broca's area

Answer 26

speech (thoughts into words)

Question 27

Wernicke's area

Answer 27

listening comprehension

Question 28

thyroid gland

Answer 28

metabolism

Question 29

parathyroid gland

Answer 29

regulates Ca and P in blood and tissues

Question 30

pineal gland

Answer 30

melatonin

Question 31

adrenal gland

Answer 31

adrenaline

Question 32

pancreas

Answer 32

insulin and glucagon, digestive enzymes

Question 33

pituitary gland

Answer 33

master gland - functions of all other glands

Question 34

stage 1 NREM

Answer 34

everything slows down

Question 35

stage 2 NREM

Answer 35

about half of sleep. brain starts working on memories

Question 36

stage 3 NREM

Answer 36

slowest and deepest

Question 37

REM

Answer 37

brain is super active; most dreams

Question 38

compensatory dreaming

Answer 38

dreaming about a loss

Question 39

Freud's parts of dreams

Answer 39

manifest (seen) and latent (meaning)

Question 40

what are barbiturates

Answer 40

basically alcohol, they calm you down

Question 41

inhalants effects

Answer 41

detachment from environment

Question 42

opiates

Answer 42

euphoria, relieve pain, cause sleep

Question 43

sianosis

Answer 43

not breathing

Question 44

laudanum

Answer 44

opium + alcohol

Question 45

morphine

Answer 45

strong pain killer

Question 46

amphetamine

Answer 46

alertness and confidence

Question 47

peyote

Answer 47

cactus drug

Question 48

psilocybin

Answer 48

fungus drug

Question 49

pcp

Answer 49

tranqualizer basically

Question 50

fovea

Answer 50

dent in back of eye with cones

Question 51

Krause bulbs

Answer 51

detect cold

Question 52

Ruffini corpuscle

Answer 52

detect heat

Question 53

meissner corpuscle

Answer 53

detect pressure

Question 54

positive vs negative reinforcement

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primary is adding a good thing, negative is removing a bad thing

Question 55

Albert Bandura

Answer 55

bobo doll experiment; kids learn aggression

Question 56

stages of memory

Answer 56

encoding, storage, retrieval

Question 57

stm can hold ___ pieces of info

Answer 57

5-9

Question 58

types of ltm and explain

Answer 58

episodic - personal semantic - facts procedural - skills emotional - responses to stimuli

Question 59

hippocampus

Answer 59

memories from stm to ltm

Question 60

amygdala

Answer 60

strong emotion

Question 61

mental retardation starting IQ

Answer 61

70 and lower