Test 1

Question 1

What is the difference between absolute threshold and just noticeable difference

Answer 1

Just noticeable difference is between two stimuli whereas absolute threshold is just one

Question 2

What is hearing

Answer 2

Sound waves and air pressure changes

Question 3

The thalamus control senses except for which one

Answer 3

Smell

Question 4

What are the constant movement of the eyes

Answer 4

Microsaccades

Question 5

What part of the neuron receives the message

Answer 5

Dendrite

Question 6

What part of the neuron carries the message

Answer 6

Axon

Question 7

What are the three parts of the neuron

Answer 7

Axon dendrite and soma

Question 8

What kind of neuron is the afferent

Answer 8

It is a sensory neuron that carries information from the senses to the central nervous system

Question 9

What kind of neuron is the Efferent

Answer 9

It is a motor neuron that carries messages from the central nervous system to the muscles

Question 10

What are the two parts of the autonomic nervous system

Answer 10

The parasympathetic and the sympathetic

Question 11

What are the two parts of the peripheral nervous system

Answer 11

The somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system

Question 12

Where is the message being transmitted

Answer 12

The synapse

Question 13

What is the shortest wave length

Answer 13

Blue

Question 14

What is the cause of a nerve hearing problem

Answer 14

A problem in the inner ear

Question 15

What does the Myelin do

Answer 15

Protects the neuron

Question 16

How do we see

Answer 16

Light enters the cornea then goes to the pupil to the retina then to the optic nerve to the brain

Question 17

Where does the sense of smell go to

Answer 17

Olfactory bulb

Question 18

What is the use of pre-existing knowledge to organize individual features into a unified whole

Answer 18

Top down processing

Question 19

The analysis of smaller features to build up to a complete perception

Answer 19

Bottom up processing

Question 20

What is structuralism and who founded it

Answer 20

It’s the study of the basic elements of the mind and Tichenor and Wundt founded it

Question 21

Who founded Gestalt psychology

Answer 21

Wertheimer

Question 22

Who are the founders of behaviorism

Answer 22

Watson and skinner

Question 23

What does the humanistic perspective focus on

Answer 23

Aspects of personality that make people uniquely human such as subjective feelings and freedom of choice

Question 24

The measure of the relationship between two variables

Answer 24

Correlation

Question 25

The Connections of the afferent neurons to the interneurons to the efferent resulting in a reflex action

Answer 25

Reflex arc

Question 26

Chemical found in the synaptic vesicles that when released has an effect on the next cell

Answer 26

Neurotransmitters

Question 27

The theory of color vision that proposes visual neurons are stimulated by way of one color and inhibited by light of another color

Answer 27

Opponent process theory

Question 28

Theory of Color vision that proposes three types of cones Red blue and green

Answer 28

Trichromatic theory

Question 29

Randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population of subjects

Answer 29

Representative sample

Question 30

What are the five regions of the limbic system and what are they responsible for

Answer 30

Hypothalamus – hunger thirst sex drive and taste Thalamus- linked directly to the senses Amygdala – fear Hippocampus – long-term memory Cingulate cortex – emotion formation and processing Learning and memory

Question 31

The ability within the brain to consistently change both structure and function of many cells in response to trauma

Answer 31

Neuroplasticity

Question 32

Explain the gestalt principal

Answer 32

Similarity – the tendency to perceive things that look similar to each other as being part of the same group Proximity – the tendency to perceive objects that are close to each other as part of the same grouping Closure – the tendency to complete figures that are incomplete Continuity– The tendency to perceive things as simply as possible with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex broken up pattern

Question 33

What are the four goals of psychology

Answer 33

Describe explain predict control

Question 34

What is the variable that is manipulated

Answer 34

The independent variable

Question 35

The participants response that is measured

Answer 35

The Dependant variable

Question 36

The group that is exposed to the independent variable

Answer 36

Experimental group

Question 37

The group that is exposed to either no treatment or some kind of treatment that has no effects

Answer 37

Control group

Question 38

The study in which the subjects do not know if they're in the experimental or the control group

Answer 38

Single-blind study

Question 39

Study in which neither the experimenter nor the subjects know if the subjects are in the experimental or control group

Answer 39

Double-blind study

Question 40

What are the two divisions of the nervous system

Answer 40

The central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system

Question 41

What is the central nervous system composed of

Answer 41

Brain and spinal cord

Question 42

What does the somatic nervous system do

Answer 42

Carries information from the senses to the central nervous system and from the central nervous system to the muscles

Question 43

Which division of the autonomic nervous system is the fight or flight system

Answer 43

Sympathetic nervous system

Question 44

What does the somesthetic senses consist of

Answer 44

Skin senses Kinesthetic senses Vestibular sense

Question 45

Has to do with the location of the body parts in relation to each other

Answer 45

Kinesthetic sense

Question 46

Has to do with the movement and position of the body

Answer 46

Vestibular senses

Question 47

The tendency to perceive two things that happen close together in time as being related

Answer 47

Contiguity