How to Study for Psychology Final Exam for Flashcards

Psychology Final from a Psychology Final Exam textbook. Questions on personality, behaviors, etc.

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Sigmund Freud is the originator of which psychology perspective?
Psychoanalytic
Hallucinations, tremors, and others are side effects associated with the termination of an addiction, know as what?
Withdrawl
After several trials a dog is given a specific treat when a light is lit, there is evidence of conditioning if the dog..?
Salivates when the light is lit but the food is not present yet
What is the basic unit of the nervous system?
Neuron
Which method of research is central to behaviorist perspective?
Experimentation
What are primary drives of hunger and thirst regulated by?
Hypothalamus
To determine the # of students with a personal computer the school bookstore surveys the introductory computer science class. What is the problem with this survey?
It is not a representative sample.
When an individual looks through a window in the morning what parts of the brain cortex are stimulated?
Occipital and parietal lobes
A cognitive psychologist would be most interested in what?
Perceptual speed on word association tests
The concept of tabula rasa, or "blank state"-the idea that when you are born you know nothing- is most closely associated to who?
John Locke
Humanistic approaches emphasize the importance of what?
Free will and conscious awareness
Psychologists who emphasize the importance of repressed memories and childhood experiences subscribe to which perspective?
Psychodynamic
What is a double-blind experimental design?
When neither researchers nor experimental subjects know who is assigned the latter.
Damage to Broca's Area in the left cerebral hemisphere results in what?
Loss in the ability to speak
In the neuron, what is the function of a dentrite?
To receive the input from the neurons