Download Psychology Final Study Guide Your Exam is scheduled for Monday

Psychology
Final Study Guide
Your Exam is scheduled for Monday, 6/2 (Essay Exam) &
Tuesday, 6/3 (Objective Exam)
PART I – IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE: Chapters 1 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 7 / 8 / 9 /
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He was a 19th century English scientist who developed the idea of “nature vs. nurture?”
Behaviorist who formulated that psychology should concern itself only with observable
facts?
British zoologist who worked with chimpanzees?
Created the theory of Moral Development?
Father of Psychoanalysis?
Father of Psychology as well as a Structuralism?
French philosopher who proposed that there was a link between the mind and the body?
He developed a Theory of Psychosocial Development?
He developed his Hierarchy of Needs Theory?
He identified the modeling process?
He taught the first class in psychology at Harvard University and a functionalist?
One of the earliest Gestalt psychologists who was born in 1880?
Psychologist who developed a “box” to examine operant conditioning?
Psychologist who developed a spiral that illustrates the difference between sensation
and perception?
Psychologist who spoke about the four (4) levels of cognitive development?
Russian physiologist who demonstrated classical conditioning?
Scientist who developed a Theory about Death and Dying?
Scientist who stated that dreams are a way of mental housecleaning –
he also discovered DNA?
Studied the influence of culture – Our thinking, feeling and behaviors are based upon
the culture we belong to?
They first studied Human Behavior and believed that people’s lives were dominated
by their own minds and they were in fact, rational.
PART II – IDENTIFY and/or ANSWER the FOLLOWING: Chapters 3 /4 / 5 / 6 / 8
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Ability to picture something in a child’s own mind?
Ability to recognize distances and three-dimensionality?
Ability to respond differently to similar but distinct stimuli?
Deep, caring, close and enduring emotional bond between an infant and caregiver?
Device which is used to measure and record electrical activity of our brains?
External stimulus, reinforce or reward that motivates behavior?
Failure to get enough sleep at night in order to feel rested?
False beliefs that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence?
Important periods when an individual can learn specific behaviors more easily?
Internal state that activates behavior & directs it toward a goal?
Kids leave out words or use the wrong tense, but we still understand them?
Measurement term for sound?
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Method used to examine the unconscious; the patient is asked to say whatever comes to their mind?
Occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor?
Organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences?
Out of sight, but not out of mind?
Stimulus or event that follows a response and increases the likelihood that the response will be
repeated?
Study of Death and Dying?
Syndrome that due to sex hormone levels may cause irritability, fatigue and depression in females?
Units of understanding?
What are our five (5) major senses?
What are the Eight (8) Phases of Development?
What did the monkey experiment teach us?
What the old argument of biological makeup versus environmental factors is usually called?
PART III: Answer and/or identify the following: All Chapter 6
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Chemicals that either excite the next nerve cell or inhibit it? Be able to name three (3):
Long fiber carries impulses from cell body to the next nerve cell?
White, fatty substance that protects & insulates this long fiber?
Nerve cells are better known as?
Process by which our brain makes new brain cells?
Our central nervous system is composed of?
Short, thick fibers which receives the nerve impulses & sends them to the cell body?
The chemical point where two nerve cells meet?
This nervous system is composed of all the fibers running to and from the CNS?
Part of our brain which controls posture, balance & voluntary movements?
This part functions as a bridge between the spinal cord and our brains proper?
Controls hunger, thirst and sexual behavior? Our Logical brain is on what side? Our artistic
brain is located where?
Our brains, as discussed in class have ___ major lobes? What can each do?
Our ___ controls our ability to learn & store complex & abstract information?
Two ways in which we can non-invasively study the brain – One uses radioactive glucose and the
other uses a magnetic field?
A newer third way to image the brain whereby we measure the magnetic field involving the
blood oxygenation of the brain?
This is the body’s communication system outside of the nervous system?
Master gland?
Controls metabolism?
Gland which controls the secretion of calcium from our bones?
Located in the brain, this gland helps us get to sleep?
Gland found in our necks, it helps in the production of antibodies or T-cells?
This gland produces insulin and helps us digest our food?
You have two of this gland – it prepares the body for short-term emergencies & helps fight
infection?
These are our reproductive glands – Male? Female? What are the three (3) sex hormones that
males & females share?
What are the three (3) parts of our Exocrine System?
PART IV: Answer and/or IDENTIFY the FOLLOWING: Chapters 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 16 / 17
1. A label for a class of objects or events that have at least one attribute in common?
2. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus & a neutral
stimulus?
3. Apparent sudden realization of the solution to a problem?
4. Awareness of one’s own cognitive processes?
5. Changing emotional difficulties into a loss of a specific voluntary body function?
6. Chemical substances produced in your body and carried by your bloodstream?
7. Chemicals that affect our nervous system & result in altered consciousness?
8. Condition in which repeated attempts to control a situation fail, resulting in the belief that the
situation is uncontrollable?
9. Disorder characterized by sudden & temporary changes in identity, behavior, memory or the
like?
10. Fading away of memory over time?
11. Failure to get enough sleep in order to feel rested?
12. False beliefs that a person maintains in the face of contrary evidence?
13. Form of altered consciousness in which people become highly suggestible to change their
behavior & thoughts?
14. Group of disorders characterized by confused & disconnected thoughts, emotions &
perceptions?
15. How important is sleep to our mental health?
16. Learning by imitating others; copying their behaviors?
17. Learning in which a certain action is reinforced or punished resulting in a corresponding increase
or decrease in its future occurrence?
18. Loss of memory?
19. Memory retrieval in which a person reconstructs previously learned material?
20. Mental disorder in which an individual alternates between feelings of euphoria & depression?
21. Most widely used & abused mind-altering substance in the United States?
22. Nervous system that controls involuntary muscles – heart, lungs, reproductive organs?
23. Occurs when a stimulus activates a receptor?
24. Organization of sensory information into meaningful experiences?
25. Our internal biological clocks are called our?
26. Perceptions that misrepresent physical stimuli?
27. Phenomenon of filling in the gaps in what our senses tell us? When we hear a barking sound –
we assume it is a?
28. Physical adaption to a drug so that a person needs an increased amount in order to produce the
original effect?
29. Practice in which a person focuses their attention on an image or thought with the goal being to
clear their mind & relax?
30. Process of grouping items to make them easier to remember?
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Rule-of-thumb problem-solving technique?
Sleep disorder in which a person has trouble breathing, in actually they are choking?
State of awareness, including a person’s feelings, sensations, ideas & perceptions?
Storage & retrieval of what has been learned or experienced?
Study of the meaning in language?
Techniques for using associations to memorize & retrieve information?
The Treatment for drug abusers involved what three (3) steps?
Transforming information so the nervous system can process it? Two types?
Type of memory retrieval in which a person identifies an object they have or have not seen
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Vague, generalized feelings of apprehension?
What are the three (3) stages of Memory?
What does the SQ4R method mean?
What the penguin in the top hat in a warehouse full of trash bags are an example of?
What travelers experience when their internal clock doesn’t match the actual external clock
time?
Why is Cramming information dangerous?
What are the five (5) Memory Lanes and how do they work?
What is the Stroop Test?
What are the two main types of Amnesia?
What defines a powerful memory?
PART I – People (1-20) ~ Due on Monday 5/19
PART II – Concepts – (1-24) – Chapters 1-6 ~ DUE on Wednesday 5/21
PART III – Chapter 6 (1-26) ~ DUE on Thursday 5/22
PART IV ~ (#1-22) ~ Due on Tuesday, 5/27
Part IV -- (#23-49) ~ Due on Thursday, 5/29
Essay Exam is on Monday, 6/2 and Objective Exam on Tuesday 6/3.
Be Prepared – You’re running out of assignments and chances.