test 1 - part 3

Question 1

In what brain region would damage be the most likely to perhaps leave you in a coma?

Answer 1

• Reticular Formation

Question 2

What brain region would damage be the most likely to cut off the very breath and heartbeat of life?

Answer 2

• Medulla

Question 3

Cerebellum “little brain”

Answer 3

• enables nonverbal learning, coordinates voluntary movement bike, jump rope, weights

Question 4

If your cerebellum was damaged….

Answer 4

• It would be hard to walk, and you wouldn’t respond as well to classical conditioning

Question 5

Where is the Limbic System located?

Answer 5

• btwn the oldest and newest brain areas “border”

Question 6

What does the Limbic System contain?

Answer 6

• hypothalamus
• Hippocampus
• Amygdala

Question 7

What does the Limbic system do?

Answer 7

• involved in motivation, emotion, learning, and memory

Question 8

Basal Ganglia does what?

Answer 8

• directs intentional movement
• receives input from the cerebral cortex, filters stimuli, replays important info to other brain areas, controls arousal

Question 9

Where is the Basal Ganglia located?

Answer 9

• inside the brainstem, btwn the ears

Question 10

Amygdala is the ______ headquarters

Answer 10

• Emotion

Question 11

Where is the amygdala located?

Answer 11

• tip of each side of the hippocampus

Question 12

What do the amygdala do?

Answer 12

• play central role in emotional processes, formation of emotional memories, attached significance to events associated with FEAR, punishment, or reward.
  (if you break your arm skydiving, you’ll be scared of skydiving because of them)

Question 13

Hypothalamus is located where?

Answer 13

• below the thalamus

Question 14

in a person with a severed ______ info sharing does not occur

Answer 14

• corpus callosum

Question 15

Visual info that is presented the right/left visual field is transferred and processed in the ______

Answer 15

• left and right hemispheres

Question 16

Children’s brains are much more ______ than adults

Answer 16

• plastic

Question 17

Neurogenesis

Answer 17

• production of new brain cells

Question 18

intuition

Answer 18

• an effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought as contrasted with explicit conscious reasoning

Question 19

Hindsight bias

Answer 19

• tendency to believe AFTER learning an outcome that one would have foreseen it “I knew it all along”

Question 20

Ex of hindsight bias

Answer 20

• highschool quarterback and head get together

Question 21

2 factors that support tendency for hindsight bias

Answer 21

• selective recall

- need for closure

Question 22

3 levels of hindsight bias

Answer 22

• 1) memory distortion ( I said it would happen )
• 2) inevitability
• 3) Foreseeability ( I knew it would happen )

Question 23

Ex 2 of hindsight bias

Answer 23

• ben sees it’s cloudy outside, thinks to himself it’ll rain this afternoon, when it does rain, Ben says that he was certain it was going to rain

Question 24

ex 3 of hindsight bias

Answer 24

• im nervous for the test that I hardly studied for, when I take it i think i did bad, when i get a B back, i say “I thought I A’ced it” and actually believed in hindsight

Question 25

metal processes

Answer 25

• internal, subjective experience we can infer but not record

Question 26

biopsychology approach

Answer 26

• integrated approach that incorporates biological psych and social cultural levels of analysis

Question 27

Nature vs Nurture issue

Answer 27

• controversy regarding the relative contribution that genes and experience make to the development of psych traits and behaviors

Question 28

natural selection

Answer 28

• nature selects traits that best enable an organism to sure and reproduce

Question 29

charles Darwin

Answer 29

• raged that natural selection shapes behaviors as well as bodies

Question 30

counseling psych

Answer 30

• branch of psych that assists ppl with problems in living and in achieving greater well being