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What does the thyroid gland do?
What does oxytocin control?
Psych unit 2 exam
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What does oxytocin control?
Regulates pregnancy
Stress responses
Regulates blood sugar
Bonding
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What does the thyroid gland do?
Regulates sleep cycle
Regulate blood sugar
Regulate metabolism
Regulate calcium
3
If I am trying to find if my test is actually measuring what I want it to measure, what am I looking for?
Validity
Reliability
Standardization
Intelligence
4
How are tastes transferred to neural impulses?
Cones and rods
Sensory receptors in skin
Taste buds
Olfactory bulb
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What is the area that connects the left and right hemispheres?
Corpus Callosum
Cerebellum
Hippocampus
Amygdala
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What is deuteranopia?
Mild blue and yellow color blindness
Mild orange and purple color blindness
Mild red and green color blindness
Complete color blindness (only seeing in black and white)
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Where is our vision located?
Skin
Mouth
Nose
Eyes
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Which of these is NOT considered a lobe of the brain?
Occipital
Limbic
Parietal
Frontal
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Which theory believes there are three color sensors?
Opponent process theory
Humanistic theory
Gestalt theory
Trichromatic theory
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How are aromatic substances transferred to neural impulses?
Taste buds
Hair cells in cochlea
Cones and rods
Olfactory bulb
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Which of these is not one of the 5 tastes?
Umami
Spicy
Sour
Salty
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What is sensory adaptation?
How we interpret our senses
When our senses rely on one another to understand something
A reduction in the sensitivity of our senses due to constant exposure
When our senses make up for one another when we lose one
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How do we transfer bodily senses to neural impulses?
Olfactory bulb
Sensory receptors in the skin
Cones and rods
Taste buds
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Which of these is not a way we take brain images?
Colonoscopy scan
PET scan
CAT scan
MRI scan
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What is sensory interaction?
When we become so used to a stimuli we no longer perceive it
When the senses interact with one another to understand our surroundings
How we think about our surroundings
When our senses make up for one another after losing one
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How are sound waves transferred to neural impulses?
Olfactory bulb
Taste buds
Hair cells within the cochlea
Cones and Rods
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Which of these is a principle of perception?
Olfactory bulb
Context
Vision
Neurons
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What does the parasympathetic nervous system control?
Fight or flight
Voluntary movement
Resting
Emotions
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What are the spaces between neurons called?
Dendrite
Axon Terminal
Synapse
Soma
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Which is an example of sensorineural deafness?
Shattering your stirrup
Plugging your ear with cotton balls
Tearing your ear drum
Damaging the cochlear hair cells
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What is crystallized intelligence?
Sum of your knowledge
Quirky trivia
Problem Solving
Abstract thinking
22
What is this class called?
Social Studies
Psychology
Biology
Sociology
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What is it called when a person feels strong involuntary connections between stimuli and their senses?
Prosopagnosia
Projective Synesthesia
Aphantasia
Associative Synesthesia
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What is astigmatism?
When there is too much refractive power to focus on
When refraction power is asymmetrical
When there is not enough refractive power to focus on
When people are able to focus on closer things than further things
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What is gate control theory?
Our ability to know where our body parts are
Our ability to feel pain
Our sense of balance
The belief that the spinal cord blocks pain signals
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What does the reticular formation control?
Long term memory
Balance
Breathing
Sleep cycle
27
What does your hypothalamus control?
Speech
Memory
Comprehension
Basic instincts
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What did Gardner's theory of intelligence believe in?
There are 8 separate types of intelligence
There is one general intelligence (G)
There are 7 intertwining intelligences
3 types of intelligence that predict real-world success
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What is a homunculus?
How our senses interact with one another to understand the world around us
The official name for our 5 senses
A visual representation of our inner desires
A visual representation of our neurological map
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How are light waves transferred to neural impulses?
Through cones and rods
Through our skin receptors
Through our taste buds
By tissue in our olfactory bulb
