5 Written Questions

1. Hindbrain, Midbrain, Forebrain
2. scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory and reasoning
3. Nativism, psychoanalytic theory, humanistic psychology, behaviorism, cognitive psychology, evolutionary psychology, social psychology, phrenology
4. The scientific study of mind and behavior
5. Refers to observable actions of humans/ nonhumans

5 Matching Questions

1. Sympathetic Division
2. Spinal Cord function in CNS
3. ethics in psychology
4. Myelin sheath
5. Disadvantages of Archival Research

1. a Respecting people, animals and the truth:
2. b The spinal cord is connected to a section of the brain called the brainstem and runs through the spinal canal. Cranial nerves exit the brainstem. Nerve roots exit the spinal cord to both sides of the body. The spinal cord carries signals (messages) back and forth between the brain and the peripheral nerves.
3. c insulating layer of fatty material
4. d The researchers have not control over how data was collected, important date may be missing from the records, previous research may be unreliable.
5. e A set of nerves that prepares the body for action in threatening situations; dilates pupils, relaxes bronchi, accelerates heartbeat, inhibits digestive activity, stimulates glucose release and secretion of epinephrine/norepinephrine, relaxes bladder, stimulates ejaculation in male.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. Manipulation and random assignment
   1. requirements of experimental design
   2. types of heuristics
   3. Representativeness
   4. Dependent variable
2. the variable that is manipulated in an experiment
   1. Independent variable
   2. Respect Animals
   3. Dendrite
   4. Representativeness
3. Some people believe that humans have the capacity for free will - the ability to choose their actions without being forced to follow a certain course by either by the influence of others or by natural laws
   1. Representativeness
   2. Random selection
   3. Free will vs. Determinism
   4. Heuristics
4. mean, median, and mode
   1. common measures of central tendency
   2. Disadvantages of Archival Research
   3. Three main areas of the brain
   4. Representativeness
5. upper left temporal lobe; brain location for speech production
   1. Archival Research
   2. Wernicke's area
   3. Respect People
   4. Dendrite

5 True/False Questions

1. Respect Animals → getting informed consent from participants, not coercing participation, protecting participants from harm, weighing benefits against risks, avoiding deception, and keeping information confidential

   True        False

2. Dendrite → area of the brain that coordinates information coming into and out of the spinal cord

   True        False

3. Pseudoscience → cells in the nervous system that communicate with one another to perform information-processing tasks

   True        False

4. Base Rate → how common a characteristic or behavior is in the general population (base rate fallacy)

   True        False

5. Humanistic Psychology → scientific study of mental processes, including perception, thought, memory and reasoning

   True        False