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Psychology Final Exam 2
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/16/2009

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The researcher responsible for determining distinction between episodic and semantic memory was...
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Tulving
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Sleep spindles and k complexes seen in this sleep stage...
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Stage 2
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One group injected with epinephrine; the other a saline solution, then emotionally aroused. Theory is called?
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Schacter's cognition and feedback theory
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Describes perceptual experience that arises from the fact that we have two retinas.
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Binocular disparity
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Describes perceptual experience that arises from the fact that we have two retinas.
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Binocular disparity
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Describes perceptual experience that arises from the fact that we have two retinas.
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Binocular disparity
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Most REM sleep occurs in these sleep cycles.
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Stages four and five
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Episodic and semantic are both parts of this memory structure
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Long term memory
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Which is no a type of monocular cue that helps us in perceiving depths in the visual world
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Pragnaz [Used in Gestalt Psychology]
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Influx of which ion causes an action potential to occur?
Definition
Na+
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What did Phineas Gage show psychologists about the brain?
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The brain has a role in complex phenomena like personality
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What is the duration of iconic memory?
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.5 seconds
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Hubel and Wieal employed this study to feline visual cortex and discovered feature detector skills
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Single-cell recording
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According to Beidermen's recognition by components theory 3-D objects are composed of...
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Reversible figures
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Pons and medulla control which reflex?
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Postural
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What is the spinal cord not responsible for?
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Coordinating movement of the limbs [Basal Ganglia]
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Which neurotransmitters are found in neo-muscular junction?
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Acetylcholine
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Korsakoff's syndrome patients show there's a distinction between ____ and ____ memory.
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Procedural; declarative [Respectively Skills and Facts]
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This part of the nerve cell is responsible for transmitting electrical signals within the neuron.
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Axon
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The vesicles containing NT are found in this part of the neuron.
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Axon terminals
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HM has this type of amnesia which makes it impossible for him to remember anything since his surgery.
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Retrograde [Retro means before]
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Stimulation of this part of the brain (mid brain to basal ganglia) is rewarding.
Definition
Media fore brain bundle [Aid Midbrain- Medial]
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Portion of the hypothalamus (satiety center) becomes individual's motivation
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Ventromedial [Hypothalamus]
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Great surprise and strong emotional arousal define this type of memory.
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Flashbulb [Aid: Instant-on]
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The central drive system is a part of which brain structure?
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Hypothalamus
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This brain structure is a bundle of axons that connect the two cerebral hemispheres.
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Corpus callosum
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Which drug is known to suppress REM sleep?
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Alcohol
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Iconic memory is the visual part of which memory structure?
Definition
Sensory Register
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NT (along with neurons) mediates the effects of the reward pathway- is agonized by cocaine and amphetamines.
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Dopamine [Aid:Doping feels good, rewards are good]
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This psychologist credited with being the first to study memory scientifically.
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Ebbinghaus
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This scientist did Noel Prize winning work on "split brain patients"
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Sperry
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In cognitive psychology, in order for a solution to be creative it must be both____ and ____.
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Novel; practical
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What language milestone occurs at approximately 4-6 months of age?
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Babbling
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Teenagers who have gone through an identity crisis and has abandoned their beliefs in order to conform.
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Foreclosure
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Which test first used intelligence quotient as a measure device?
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Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale
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Which test used the number of solutions a person can come up with to measure creativity?
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Divergent Production Test [Aid: Producing Different Solutions]
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According to the Stanford-Binet test, the IQ of a ten year old with a mental age of eight is...
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...80 [(Mental age/Actual age)x100]
Make Mr. Moran proud with math.
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A parent high in nurturance, warmth and low in communication, maturity and firmness is a _____ parent.
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Permissive
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A child that uses "wawa" to refer to not just water but all drinks is...
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Overextending the word
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What was NOT used by Gardner as evidence for his theory of multiple intelligences?
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Relatives of geniuses
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Technique for enhancing creativity that requires a delay between work sessions
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Incubation
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Social psychologist responsible for the concept of 'person schema'
Definition
Asch
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Children have their first confrontation with _____ during the anal stage of psychosexual development.
Definition
Sodomy. I mean authority.
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In social psychology, a claim made about cause of a person's behavior is called...
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Attribution
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Terrance criticized attempts to teach primates language. Which was NOT a specific criticism?
Definition
Primates' vocal apparatus is insufficient.
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In experiments with Harlowe's rhesus monkey infants, which has primary reinforcing qualities?
Definition
Contact with mother
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Actor-observer discrepancy states that we are more likely to...
Definition
Make personality attributions about others' actions and not your own
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Which is not a component of the language patters known as motherese or parentese?
Definition
Low pitched voice
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Aditya feels fulfillment because he could make the scholarships fund when he was forty years old.
Definition
Generativity vs. Stagnation. Get a new name bro.
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Attached infants look to caregivers for examples of behavior.
Definition
Social referencing
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