Leo study guide UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
1. 5 pillars of psychology: biopsychology/neuroscience, sensation, consciousness
biological
2. 5 pillars of psychology: perception, thinking, intelligence, memory
Cognitive
3. 5 pillars of psychology: learning, lifespan development
developmental
4. 5 pillars of psychology: social, personality, emotion, motivation
social and personality
5. 5 pillars of psychology: abnormal, therapies, stress, lifestyle, and health
mental and physical health
6. Reliability consistency of scores across replication of a measurement proce-
dure
7. Validity degree to which a test actually measures what it is intended to
measure
8. Descriptive Research describe behaviors or characteristics that are observed and mea-
sured about the subject
uses: Case study
Naturalistic observation
Surveys and questionnaires
9. Correlational Research measuring the degree of association/relationship between two or
more variables
10. Experimental Research tests a hypothesis to determine cause and effect relationships
, TWO IMPORTANT ASPECTS
1.Random assignment of participants
2.Manipulation of the independent variable
11. Neuron diagram
12. Psychoactive drugs •chemicals that change brain function
13. Antagonists •Drugs that block the actions of neurotransmitters by occupying
the receptor sites
14. Agonists •drugs that enhance or mimic the effects of a neurotransmitter's
action
15. Reuptake Inhibitors •Block the neurotransmitters from reentering the neuron
16. Amygdala involved in our experience of emotion and tying emotional mean-
ing to our memories
17. Hippocampus associated with learning and memory
18. Hypothalamus regulates sexual motivation and behavior and homeostatic
processes; serves as an interface between the nervous system and
the endocrine system
19. Four lobes of the forebrain frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal
1. 5 pillars of psychology: biopsychology/neuroscience, sensation, consciousness
biological
2. 5 pillars of psychology: perception, thinking, intelligence, memory
Cognitive
3. 5 pillars of psychology: learning, lifespan development
developmental
4. 5 pillars of psychology: social, personality, emotion, motivation
social and personality
5. 5 pillars of psychology: abnormal, therapies, stress, lifestyle, and health
mental and physical health
6. Reliability consistency of scores across replication of a measurement proce-
dure
7. Validity degree to which a test actually measures what it is intended to
measure
8. Descriptive Research describe behaviors or characteristics that are observed and mea-
sured about the subject
uses: Case study
Naturalistic observation
Surveys and questionnaires
9. Correlational Research measuring the degree of association/relationship between two or
more variables
10. Experimental Research tests a hypothesis to determine cause and effect relationships
, TWO IMPORTANT ASPECTS
1.Random assignment of participants
2.Manipulation of the independent variable
11. Neuron diagram
12. Psychoactive drugs •chemicals that change brain function
13. Antagonists •Drugs that block the actions of neurotransmitters by occupying
the receptor sites
14. Agonists •drugs that enhance or mimic the effects of a neurotransmitter's
action
15. Reuptake Inhibitors •Block the neurotransmitters from reentering the neuron
16. Amygdala involved in our experience of emotion and tying emotional mean-
ing to our memories
17. Hippocampus associated with learning and memory
18. Hypothalamus regulates sexual motivation and behavior and homeostatic
processes; serves as an interface between the nervous system and
the endocrine system
19. Four lobes of the forebrain frontal, parietal, occipital, temporal
