Intro to Psych Final Exam Review

Intense, persistent feelings of anxiety caused by traumatic experience

According to the text, learning involves

Psychologist Solomon Asch's study showed that

The parietal lobes are to ________ as the frontal lobe is to ________.

Opiate drugs occupy the same receptor sites as

People were likely to cross streets unsafely if they were talking on a cell phone. This is due to...

Many clinicians diagnose disorders by using criteria listed in the

The fundamental attribution error: does not consider ___ and focuses on___

You fail a test=test too hard, friend fails=friend didn't study

The participants in Philip Zimbardo's simulated prison study

According to Erikson, achieving a sense of identity is the special task of the

The storage capacity of long-term memory is best described as

You were grounded for being late, now you come home early, this is explained by

Animal research has revealed a general reward system that triggers the release of the neurotransmitter

REM sleep is called paradoxical sleep because

Which approach is concerned with assessing the relative impact of both nature and nurture on our psychology?

characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and/or actions

Which of the following plays an essential role in the processing of new memories?

Fast and jerky movements of the eyes are especially likely to be associated with

Your conscious awareness of your own name and self-identity depends primarily on the normal functioning of your

A teratogen is a(n)

The most widely used system of psychological classification today is

Psychology is defined as

Sensation is to ________ as perception is to ________.

A failure to recognize that one's own face or other faces is most likely to be associated with damage to the

Asch asked people to identify which of three lines was identical to a standard line. His research studied

a lack of conscious, feel and fear little

The distinctive older term psychopath refers to an individual with

Two or more distinct personalities inhabit a person

Authoritative parents are likely to have children who

Looking at an apple, its reflected light travels to the eye. The eye absorbs the light and transmits it to the brain...

Chronic sleep debt is most likely to promote

Consciousness is

Neurosurgeons have severed the corpus callosum in human patients in order to reduce

Information is most quickly transmitted from one cerebral hemisphere to the other by the

People suffering from cognitive dissonance are likely to

Little Albert was conditioned to fear a white rat, he also feared white rabbits, this is

Deep sleep appears to play an important role in

Which of the following is most accurate about a typical night's sleep?

Parietal lobes=________, occipital lobes =____________

The human sleep cycle repeats every

The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was

Psychologist Stanley Milgram's research showed that most people

Determining whether a person has a psychological disorder is based on whether their behavior

The Harlows' studies of infant monkeys raised with artificial mothers suggest that body contact promotes

Circadian rhythm refers to

The intelligence of children is more heavily influenced by their biology or by their environment relates to what debate?

Who conducted the Stanford Prison Study?

Mood disorder involving a cycle of mood changes from depression to wild elation

Anxiety disorder involving a persistent excessive or irrational fear

The brain is composed of two sides or __________, which control the opposite side of the body.

Bottom-up processing involves analysis that begins with the

The occipital lobes are to ________ as the temporal lobes are to ________.

Damage to the left cerebral hemisphere is most likely to reduce people's ability to

Expected behavior patterns associated with particular social positions are called

As the brain receives information about objects in the environment, it interprets the info to recognize the object...

You salivate after smelling chocolate chip cookies, this is explained by