PSYCHOLOGY 110 FINAL EXAM 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Agonists vs Antagonists (drugs) - ✔✔Agonists - Stimulates NT
Antagonists - Blocks NT
✔✔somatic vs autonomic nervous system - ✔✔Somatic - Voluntary motor neurons
Autonomic - Involuntary ( Heart beat, breathing)
✔✔Electroencephalogram (EEG) - ✔✔Records electrical activity
✔✔computerized tomography (CT) scan - ✔✔Detects physical problems in brain
structure
✔✔Positron Emission Tomography (PET) - ✔✔Measures blood flow in parts of the brain
✔✔magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - ✔✔Measures oxygen in parts of the brain
✔✔Brain Anatomy - ✔✔
✔✔Hindbrain (basic life support) Anatomy - ✔✔- Medulla/Pons
- Reticular Formation
- Cerebellum
✔✔Medulla/Pons function - ✔✔Blood pressure, breathing, swallowing, facial expression
✔✔Reticular Formation - ✔✔Sleep and conciousness
✔✔Cerebellum - ✔✔Complex motor coordination ( balance, talking )
✔✔Midbrain Anatomy - ✔✔Coordinates sensory input
- Superior colliculus
- Inferior colliculus
✔✔superior colliculus - ✔✔vision
✔✔Inferior collulus - ✔✔hearing
✔✔Forebrain Anatomy - ✔✔Higher mental functioning
- Thalamus
- Hypothalamus
- Limbic System
- Amygdala
-Hippocampus
, - Cerebral cortex
✔✔Thalamus, Hypothalamus - ✔✔Thalamus - sensory processing and relay
Hypothalamus - hunger, thirst, temperature, hormones
✔✔Limbic System, Amygdala, Hippocampus - ✔✔Limbic System - emotions
Amygdala - fear, aggression, joy
Hippocampus - memory
✔✔Cerebral Cortex - ✔✔Language, problem solving, personality, recognition
✔✔corpus callosum - ✔✔communication bridge between two hemispheres
✔✔Frontal lobe (Somatic) - ✔✔- decision making
- problem solving
- social norms
- movement (motor cortex)
✔✔Broca's area - ✔✔speech production
✔✔mirror neurons - ✔✔empathy and perspective
✔✔parietal lobe - ✔✔- feelings of touch, temperature, pain
✔✔temporal lobe - ✔✔- processes auditory information
- language (wernicke's area) and facial recognition
✔✔Occipital lobe - ✔✔processes visual information (color, motion)
✔✔Split brain - ✔✔- the brain reverses sensory info
- left eye=right brain, right eye=left brain
✔✔pituitary gland (hypothalamus) - ✔✔- testosterone (physical growth)
- oxytocin (childbirth)
- Endorphins (reward and pleasure)
✔✔Adrenal glands - ✔✔- epinephrine (fight or flight)
✔✔ Mind - ✔✔processing cognition
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔observed and measurable result of cognition
✔✔Clinical Psychology - ✔✔Diagnoses and treats Psychological problems (depression,
anxiety, phobias)
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Agonists vs Antagonists (drugs) - ✔✔Agonists - Stimulates NT
Antagonists - Blocks NT
✔✔somatic vs autonomic nervous system - ✔✔Somatic - Voluntary motor neurons
Autonomic - Involuntary ( Heart beat, breathing)
✔✔Electroencephalogram (EEG) - ✔✔Records electrical activity
✔✔computerized tomography (CT) scan - ✔✔Detects physical problems in brain
structure
✔✔Positron Emission Tomography (PET) - ✔✔Measures blood flow in parts of the brain
✔✔magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - ✔✔Measures oxygen in parts of the brain
✔✔Brain Anatomy - ✔✔
✔✔Hindbrain (basic life support) Anatomy - ✔✔- Medulla/Pons
- Reticular Formation
- Cerebellum
✔✔Medulla/Pons function - ✔✔Blood pressure, breathing, swallowing, facial expression
✔✔Reticular Formation - ✔✔Sleep and conciousness
✔✔Cerebellum - ✔✔Complex motor coordination ( balance, talking )
✔✔Midbrain Anatomy - ✔✔Coordinates sensory input
- Superior colliculus
- Inferior colliculus
✔✔superior colliculus - ✔✔vision
✔✔Inferior collulus - ✔✔hearing
✔✔Forebrain Anatomy - ✔✔Higher mental functioning
- Thalamus
- Hypothalamus
- Limbic System
- Amygdala
-Hippocampus
, - Cerebral cortex
✔✔Thalamus, Hypothalamus - ✔✔Thalamus - sensory processing and relay
Hypothalamus - hunger, thirst, temperature, hormones
✔✔Limbic System, Amygdala, Hippocampus - ✔✔Limbic System - emotions
Amygdala - fear, aggression, joy
Hippocampus - memory
✔✔Cerebral Cortex - ✔✔Language, problem solving, personality, recognition
✔✔corpus callosum - ✔✔communication bridge between two hemispheres
✔✔Frontal lobe (Somatic) - ✔✔- decision making
- problem solving
- social norms
- movement (motor cortex)
✔✔Broca's area - ✔✔speech production
✔✔mirror neurons - ✔✔empathy and perspective
✔✔parietal lobe - ✔✔- feelings of touch, temperature, pain
✔✔temporal lobe - ✔✔- processes auditory information
- language (wernicke's area) and facial recognition
✔✔Occipital lobe - ✔✔processes visual information (color, motion)
✔✔Split brain - ✔✔- the brain reverses sensory info
- left eye=right brain, right eye=left brain
✔✔pituitary gland (hypothalamus) - ✔✔- testosterone (physical growth)
- oxytocin (childbirth)
- Endorphins (reward and pleasure)
✔✔Adrenal glands - ✔✔- epinephrine (fight or flight)
✔✔ Mind - ✔✔processing cognition
✔✔Behavior - ✔✔observed and measurable result of cognition
✔✔Clinical Psychology - ✔✔Diagnoses and treats Psychological problems (depression,
anxiety, phobias)
