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General Psychology Midterm Test Review
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Principles and teachings of evolutionary psychology are primarily based on the discoveries of this man. He is considered the "father of evolution"
Charles Darwin
I am a fissure; i separate the motor cortex from the parietal lobe.
Fissure of ronaldo
A fight breaks out over mating privileges. In evolutionary psychology, this is called...
Intrasexual competition
Neurotransmitter substances are stored in these; they are released when calcium enters the cell body during neurotransmission.
Synaptic vesicles
I am the longest fissure in the brain, what am I?
Longitudinal fissure
This will make sure that the charge across the axon of a neuron will never be the same. Two potassium ions come in and three sodium ions go out.
Sodium-potassium pump
Using the medical principles based on evolutionary psychology, today we can create an offspring with the best changes of survival. By "designing your own baby," this involves manipulating the DNA. These principles are known as...
Behavioral genetics
This is a term used to describe when two members of the same sex fight for mating privileges.
Intrasexual competition
One of the best ways to express the relationship between nature and nurture is... (quote)
"Heredity deals the cards; environment plays the hand"
In evolutionary psychology, the traits that one sex typically prefers in the opposite sex. For example, women tend to like strong men; muscles, athletes; confidence.
Intersexual selection
Synaptic vesicles contain us. We need to go to the synapse!
Neurotransmitter substances
A mean group of girls give the new girl at college signals that she is not wanted, even bad mouthing her! They do this because they see her as a threat to their relationships... What is this an example of?
Intrasexual competition
Mitch is attacked by a mugger, sustaining damage to the left side of his head. His Wernicke's area is damaged. How will this affect Mitch?
Mitch will lose his verbal comprehension, but not execution.
I separate the temporal lobe from the rest of the brain. There are two of me!
Fissure of Sylvius (lateral fissure)
I make sure that the two hemispheres can communicate with each other. I connect them, I am at the base of the brain.
Corpus callosum
This now common term is used to describe a condition where a person's gender identification does not match their biological sex. They seem "trapped in the wrong body"
Transgender
The neocortex is this thick, but it has six layers each with a specialty. How thick is it?
One eighth of an inch thick (1/8)
I control motor speech in the left hemisphere; if I am damaged due to an accident you will not be able to speak properly or even not at all!
Broca's area
When people talk about "executive functions," or the will, voluntary movement, the personality, or "sense of self" (identity) they are talking about...
The frontal lobe
To ensure that neurotransmission happens fast, this insulates the axon...
Myelin
Of the three meninges, I am closest to the brain itself, to the neocortex. In fact, I touch the neocortex. What do you think I am? The blood barrier is in me!
Pia mater
This term refers to people whose niche is day. Often, they are considered "morning people."
Diurnal
This is the lobe that controls what you see; vision.
Occipital lobe
Mitch is attacked by a werewolf and suffers damage to his Broca's area. What does he say when he regains consciousness?
Ahhh, grahhh, blah, grahh
This term refers to how you were raised. If you were loved, encouraged, accepted, and hugged!
Nurture
Evolutionary psychologists believe that...
Our modern skulls house a stone age mind wired for survival.
Famous psychologist who proved the importance of early attachment using baby monkeys and a cloth mother as well as a chicken wire mother with food.
Harlow
Competition for survival, mating privileges and mating instincts were common to our ancient ancestors; however, according to this field of psychology, these ancient instincts are still very much present.
Evolutionary psychology
These males appear to be born leaders.
Alpha male
The enduring behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values, and traditions shared by a group of people and transmitted from one generation to the next is defined as...
Cultural influences
Naturally, the body will attempt to "digest" these meds or transform them or excrete them via the kidneys or the liver. This term means "what the body does to the medication"
Pharmacokinetics
The fissure that separates one hemisphere from the other.
Longitudinal fissure
These people tend to function at maximum level during daylight hours.
Diurnal
Lorraine is going on her first date with a young man and takes hours to prepare, "dolling herself up." She does this due to...
Intrasexual selection
I control the speech comprehension, but not execution. I am located in the parietal lobe.
Wernicke's area
This is the lobe responsible for memory processing, audition, music, pitch.
The temporal lobe
In evolutionary psychology, this term refers to the competition between members of same sex for mating privileges of the opposite sex.
intrasexual competition
Nurture refers to...
The love you recieved as a baby and infant (how you were raised)
Sexual behavior is heavily influenced by...
Morality, religion, society, culture, and laws.
In evolutionary psychology, libido refers to...
Sex drive in order to procreate--survival of the species
Evolutionary psychologists strongly believe that behaviors that insured our survival millions of years ago are...
Hard wired into our modern brains
Hi! I am part of the motor cortex; I am in the left hemisphere; without me you could not speak properly; you would lose motor control of your mouth and jaw. What am I?
I am the Broca's area.
We are on the postsynaptic neuron; neurotransmitter substances bind to us; what are we?
We are receptors
These events could have a negative effect on a child, especially in later years.
Sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional abuse, neglect, lack of affection.
Where is the best place to stop (short-circuit) an impulse with the least amount of side effects?
Directly in the synapse
The fissure of rolando separates the...
motor cortex from the parietal lobe
We are the synaptic vesicles and we must shoot our neurotransmitter substances into the synapse. In order to do this, we must find the...
Release zones
We are like "packmen" and we "eat up" neurotransmitters in the synapse. What are we?
Monoamine oxidase
This mechanism protects the brain from toxins.
The blood brain barrier
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There is a negative correlation between TV watching and grades. What can we conclude from this research finding? a. We can conclude that this is an illusory correlation. b. We can conclude that TV watching leads to lower grades. c. We can conclude that TV watching leads to higher grades. d. We can conclude that the grades students get impact their TV watching habits. e. We can conclude that a student who watches a lot of TV is likely to have lower grades.
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Attitudes come from a variety of sources. What source do you think was most influential in establishing your attitudes? Why do you think so?
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The stage of sleep in which an EEG would detect the bursts of rhythmic activity known as sleep spindles is called a. REM sleep. b NREM-1. c. NREM-2. d. NREM-3. e. hypnagogic sleep.
QUESTION
As she looks at a face, Jamie is able to recognize it as the face of her mother. Which of the following explains why she can recognize her mother's face? a. Selective attention. b. Transduction. c. Bottom-up processing. d. Top-down processing. e. Signal detection theory.
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