C180 WGU Intro to psychology (
summarized)
1. Suppressed aggressive drives: lack of support to process emotions
2. B.F Skinner: key figure in the development of the behaviorist school of psychological thought?
3. Sigmund Freud: key figure in the development of psychoanalysis?
4. Psychological: Need must be met before the need for belongingness and love can be
satisfied?
5. As age increases the level of life satisfaction also increases:
Positive correlation between age and life satisfaction, what conclusion does the
correlation support?
6. By collecting all the data from experiments before running the
statistics: psy-chological researchers can reduce the impact of their own biases by?
7. Case Study: in depth examination of a specific person, group, event etc to gain understanding.
8. Participants should be protected from needless harm: which
principle should be established in psychological study?
9. Hippocampus: region of the brain associated primarily with memory.
10. Cerebellum Influence: Balance and fine motor movement
11. Pleasure Hypothalamus: Area of the brain that controls body temparature, hunger
and thirst.
12. Memory: what does the hippocampus influence?
13. Testes: structure associated with reproduction in males
14. Neurotransmitter Serotonin: it attects mood
15. Acetylcholine: Neurotransmitter enables muscle action
16. Sympathetic Nervous System: Integral in activating the body's fight or flight
response
17. Ivan Pavlov: Devoted career to advancing science around digestive secretions and later
behavioral studies.
18. Conditioned Response: In Pavlov's Original demonstration of classical
conditioning, what did the dogs' salivation to the ringing of the bell represent
19. Ivan Pavlov: classical conditioning and how learning occurs through association of the
stimuli
20. Which schedule of positive reinforcement shouold be most
helpful to par-ents wanting to achieve rapid learning: the parents should use
continuous reinforcement sched-ule because it can produce rapid learning
21. Implicit Memory: Long-term memory is that acquired and used without
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, C180 WGU Intro to psychology (
summarized)
conscious awareness. or ( unconscious or automatic memory)
22. Storage Decay: Gradual fading of information stored in the brain. ( Memory fades
over time)
23. Long Term Memory: Crucial part of our memory, permanent store for information
and experiences that can be recalled later
24. Short term memory: type of memory holds information until it can be encoded
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summarized)
1. Suppressed aggressive drives: lack of support to process emotions
2. B.F Skinner: key figure in the development of the behaviorist school of psychological thought?
3. Sigmund Freud: key figure in the development of psychoanalysis?
4. Psychological: Need must be met before the need for belongingness and love can be
satisfied?
5. As age increases the level of life satisfaction also increases:
Positive correlation between age and life satisfaction, what conclusion does the
correlation support?
6. By collecting all the data from experiments before running the
statistics: psy-chological researchers can reduce the impact of their own biases by?
7. Case Study: in depth examination of a specific person, group, event etc to gain understanding.
8. Participants should be protected from needless harm: which
principle should be established in psychological study?
9. Hippocampus: region of the brain associated primarily with memory.
10. Cerebellum Influence: Balance and fine motor movement
11. Pleasure Hypothalamus: Area of the brain that controls body temparature, hunger
and thirst.
12. Memory: what does the hippocampus influence?
13. Testes: structure associated with reproduction in males
14. Neurotransmitter Serotonin: it attects mood
15. Acetylcholine: Neurotransmitter enables muscle action
16. Sympathetic Nervous System: Integral in activating the body's fight or flight
response
17. Ivan Pavlov: Devoted career to advancing science around digestive secretions and later
behavioral studies.
18. Conditioned Response: In Pavlov's Original demonstration of classical
conditioning, what did the dogs' salivation to the ringing of the bell represent
19. Ivan Pavlov: classical conditioning and how learning occurs through association of the
stimuli
20. Which schedule of positive reinforcement shouold be most
helpful to par-ents wanting to achieve rapid learning: the parents should use
continuous reinforcement sched-ule because it can produce rapid learning
21. Implicit Memory: Long-term memory is that acquired and used without
1/
13
, C180 WGU Intro to psychology (
summarized)
conscious awareness. or ( unconscious or automatic memory)
22. Storage Decay: Gradual fading of information stored in the brain. ( Memory fades
over time)
23. Long Term Memory: Crucial part of our memory, permanent store for information
and experiences that can be recalled later
24. Short term memory: type of memory holds information until it can be encoded
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