PSYC 1101 Exam 1 Review

The dependent variable in an experiment is the outcome that is measured.

What is the structure in the limb system that directs maintenance activities & helps govern the endocrine system?

The parasympathetic nervous system arouses and the sympathetic nervous system calms

What are the characteristics of short-term memory?

Which of the following is NOT a way that everyday thinking sometimes lead to incorrect conclusions?

OPINION: This Quiz review session was:

Which of the following is an approach that incorporates biological, psychological, & social-cultural levels of analysis?

Who is the leading behavioralist that rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of correlational research methods?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of experimental research methods?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of descriptive research methods?

Who is the personality theorist who emphasized the effect of the unconscious mind and childhood experiences on behavior?

Which part of the peripheral nervous system controls the body’s skeletal muscles?

Neuroplasticity: brain’s ability to change by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience

Which of the following describes faulty memory for how, when, or where information was learned or imagined?

What are the characteristics of sensory memory?

What is the type of drug that reduces neural activity and slows body functions?

What is failing to see visible objects when our attention is directed elsewhere?

sequential processing processes many aspects of a problem simultaneously.

Which part of the nervous system is the sensory and motor neurons that connect to the rest of the body?

What is the portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the top of the head; sensory input for touch & body position?

Students who eat breakfast perform better in exams than students who don't eat breakfast. This is an example of:

A psychoactive drug is a chemical substance that alters perceptions and moods.

The social and cultural context of the drug user is important to drug’s overall effect and expectations.

What happens when experimental results are caused by expectations alone?

What is our biological clock; regular bodily rhythms that occur on a 24-hour cycle?

What roles do the frontal lobes and hippocampus play in memory?

What is often referring to multiple concussions though it’s not necessary to have a full-on concussion to be considered?

Neurons are a nerve cell; the basic building block of the nervous system.

What describes the arithmetic average of a distribution; adding the scores and then dividing by the number of scores?

Who was the psychologist that used introspection to search for the mind’s structural elements?

The testing effect is simply rereading information to study material.

Someone who hides money when drunk may forget the location until drunk again. This an example of

Eyewitnesses are prone to error because of suggestive interviewing techniques.

What describes the middle score in a distribution; half the scores are above it and half are below it?

Who was the philosopher-psychologist who explored functionalism, and wrote "Principles of Psychology" in 1890?

Determine the correlation: The more hours an employee works, the larger their paycheck will be

Who was taught by William James, became the pioneering memory researcher and 1st female president of APA?

The spacing effect is the tendency for distributed study to yield better retention than achieved through massed study.

What is the brain chemistry adapting to offset the drug effect and needing more substance for the desired effect?

Who was the 1st woman to receive psychology P.H.D., & became 2nd female president of APA?

What are the basic functions of working memory? (select all that apply)

What is focusing conscious awareness on a particular stimulus?

Determine the correlation: The lower the temperature, the more clothes you may wear.

What are some effortful processing strategies that can help us remember new information? (select all that apply)

Which part of the peripheral nervous system controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs?

When viewing a list of names, you are able to best recall the first and last items on the list. This is an example of

Which of the following is the base of the brainstem; controls heartbeat and breathing?

What types of information do we process automatically?

Which of the following helps coordinate movements and control sleep?

Survival military training later asks participants to recall perpetrator is an example of what's effect on memory?

Ex. Viewing a photo that was altered of family members on a hot air balloon, participants reported memories of the ride

What is the other-race effect?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of experimental research methods?

What is the part of the neuron that receives and integrates information from other cells?

Which of the following processes describes retrieval in the human memory system?

Which of the following is NOT a way that we measure variation in a group of scores?

How does source amnesia help to explain deja vu?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic that describes deep processing?

What is NOT a reason why reports of repressed & recovered memories have been met with skepticism by memory researchers?

What part of the neuron passes messages away from the cell body to other neurons, muscles, or glands?

Which of the following characteristics describe shallow processing? (select all that apply)

Sleep disorder characterized by a stop in breathing repeatedly while sleeping; can result in fatigue and depression.

Which of the following describes storage in the human memory system?

Who established the 1st psych. laboratory at University of Leipzig, to measure the fastest and simplest mental processes

What is the structure located in the limbic system that helps process explicit (conscious) memories for storage?

Which of the following is the brain’s sensory control center, located on top of the brainstem; directs messages?

Priming is the activation of certain associations, thus predisposing one’s perception, memory, or response.

Which of the following describes the most frequently occurring score in a distribution?

Which of the following processes describes encoding in the human memory system?

Sleep disorder characterized by sudden attacks of overwhelming sleepiness & risk of falling asleep in dangerous moments

Sleep loss can predict which of the following:

Which of the following explains why old memories resurface when you are in the environment of your childhood home?

What is a factor other than the factor being studied that might influence a study’s results?

What sleep disorder does a person appear terrified, talking nonsense, sitting up, or walking around; rare as people age?

What is the part of the neuron that is known as the cell's life-support center?

What are the characteristics of long-term memory?

The dependent variable in an experiment is the factor that is manipulated; whose effect is being studied.

Part of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead; involved in speaking, muscle movements, and making plans

Which state of consciousness is NOT psychologically induced?

What is the type of drug considered psychedelic and evokes sensory images in the absence of sensory input?

Which state of consciousness does NOT occur spontaneously?

Spilt-brain research showed that the right hemisphere is the more verbal, while the left excels in visual perception

Which part of the nervous system consists of the brain and spinal cord?

What is the two lima-bean-sized neural clusters in the limbic system linked to emotion?