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| Biopsych is the study of: |
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| How the brain and nervous sys. relate to behavior |
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| Body cells specialized to carry/ process information is called: |
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| Neurons are made up of dendrites, a soma and what? |
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| The branching fibers of the _________ end in __________ and link with parts of other neurons. |
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| A fatty layer coating axons is called: |
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| The nature of a nerve impulse is a _________ event, where as the nature of the communication between neurons is _______ event. |
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| What effect do neurotransmitters have from one neuron to the next? |
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| It excites it OR inhibits it |
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| The central nervous system is composed of: |
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| The peripheral system is composed of: |
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| the somatic and automic system |
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| When seeing a grizzly bear running at you, you run. This action is controlled by: |
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| The sympathetic nervous sys. |
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| Describe the brain on someone who does well on mental tests? |
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| The brain uses less glucose and works more efeciently |
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| The left side of the body is controlled by _____ hemisphere |
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| The left hemisphere is in charge of: |
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| Emotional respnses is controlled by |
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| What else is the right hemisphere in charge of? |
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| The left hemisphere affects: |
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| The occiptual lobe controls |
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| People who have difficulty communicating is what? |
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| A person who says "seep" instead of "sleep" is becuase of what? |
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| What 3 things are true about consciouness? |
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*has been described as an ever changing flow of awarness
*includes sensations from the external world and one's own body
*organized, meaningful and percieved as real |
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| If you suffered from sleep deprivation what would effect you first? |
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| the loss of ability to pay attention/ not able to perfom simple routines |
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| If Ralph consistenly sleeps 6 hours a night, how would you describe his sleep patterns? |
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| 90% of the time, dreaming occurs in: |
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| and increased need to dream because of a deprivation of dream sleep |
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| which of the following is likely to increase NREM sleep? |
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| A person who would be more intrested in your toilet training would be a: |
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| when evaluating claims about behavior, what 3 questions should be asked? |
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*What claims are being made
*What trait of the claims are made
*how good is the evidence |
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| After finding a missing plane, what would be the least important question to ask: |
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| has any other reporter evaluated the claim |
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| The more believable the results are for fortune tellers is called |
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| fallacy of positive instances |
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| Gesault's psych slogan is: |
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| the whole is greater than the sum in parts |
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| In order to be scientific, observations must be: |
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| carefully planned and recorded |
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| According to John B. repressed thoughts are actively held out of our awarness. T or F? |
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| The Barnum effect is our tendancy to remember things that confirm our expectations. T or F |
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| The phrase "lets take a look" catures the reference of empiracle attitude. T or F |
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| what does "cognitive" mean? |
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| thinking, knowing, perception, and memory |
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| what is a developmental psychologist? |
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| applied research on child dev. |
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| psychological studies on students and learning stablities |
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| applys scientific methods to psych |
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| research on the design of machinery |
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| What is the "absolute threshold"? |
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| The minimum amnt. of stimulus necessary to raise a threshold |
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| What are the 3 facts about "sublimital perception"? |
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*the stimuli is too rapid and weak to be recognized
*used by buisness ads
*has weak effects |
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| The part of the eye where the optic nerve leaves the eye is: |
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| What part of the eye works best in bright light? |
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| when the lens is stretched to focus light this is: |
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| We are most sensitive to _______ and least sensitive to ________. |
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| Taste can be influenced by |
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| what is NOT a sensation produced by skin recpetors? |
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| stimulation of pain fibers is ________. |
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| When exposed to a jack hammer, you are susseptible to: |
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| A person with inflamed kidneys is feeling pain in her hips. What kind of pain is this? |
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| the difference btwn. a hallucenation and illusion is? |
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| a hallucenation is believing something exists, when it doesn't |
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| The perpose of camolflage is: |
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| to break up figure-ground organization |
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| Which of eyewhitness testimonys is not true |
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| the whitness' confidence is a good predictor of their accuracy |
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| What 3 things affects eyewhitness accuracy |
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*stress
*weapon focus
*attitudes |
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| the lens of the eye bends light inward to focus an image. T ot F? |
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| visual acuity is the sharpest when an image is 20 degrees away from the foven. T or F? |
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| the best night vision is when looking at the center of the object. T or F? |
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| sense of smell doesn't develop until 6-9 months. T or F? |
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| phermones are like a parfume odor. t or f? |
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| the most freq. found receptors in the skin is for temp. t or f? |
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| cars look like toys from a plane b/c of shape constiency. t or f? |
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| "weapon focus" means people will remember the criminal's face. t or f? |
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| suffering from sleep deprivation, what would be the first effect? |
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| loss of ability to pay attention |
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| if humans sleep 8 hours a night what would be his sleep petterns? |
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| REM sleep is important for what 3 things? |
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*sorting memories
*stimulating the brain
*restoring brain chemicals |
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| What does a somnambulist suffer? |
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| your best friend suffers from excessive daytime sleepyness, what is she suffering from? |
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| the brain stem consists of: |
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| what about handness if false? |
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| it is inherited from your parents |
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| damage to Wernickie's area causes the condition mindblindedness. T or F? |
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| nerves are tiny individual calls. t or f? |
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