Psychology test quiz and answers
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Define science of Psychology - ANS✅✅Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental
process
Empiricism - ANS✅✅Belief that knowledge comes exclusively through the senses or through
experience
Pseudoscience - ANS✅✅A fake or false science that makes claims based on little or no scientific
evidence.
Case Study - ANS✅✅An in-depth examination of one individual, or a small number of individuals
The Survey - ANS✅✅An investigation of many cases in less depth by asking people to report
opinions and behaviours
Naturalistic observation - ANS✅✅recording behaviour in its natural environments, and describing
it in detail
Experimentation - ANS✅✅Purpose is to explore cause and effect by manipulating one or more
factors, while holding other factors constant
independent variable - ANS✅✅The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose
effect is being studied (i.e if you are testing if breastfeeding kids has a difference or not in their
intelligence later in life, the independent variable is breast milk and formula)
Dependent Variable - ANS✅✅The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to
manipulations of the independent variable.
Difference between Descriptive and correlational research methods - ANS✅✅Descriptive research
method is to observe and record behaviour. Correlational research method is to detect naturally
occurring relationships . Nothing is manipulated in these two research methods.
, Biological Psychology - ANS✅✅The basic assumption that everything psychological is biological
Phrenology - ANS✅✅A popular but wronged theory in the 1800's that claimed that bumps on the
skull could reveal mental abilities and character traits.
Sensory Neurons - ANS✅✅Carry messages from the body's tissues and sensory organs inward to
the brain and spinal cord for processing
Motor Neurons - ANS✅✅Carry Messages from the brain and out to the bodes tissues
How Neuron's Communicate - ANS✅✅When a neural impluse reaches the terminal of a an axon, it
triggers release of neurotransmitters into the synaptic gap.
Acetylcholine (ACH) - ANS✅✅A neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory and also
triggers muscle contraction
Dopamine - ANS✅✅a Neurotransmitter that influences movement, learning, attention, and
emotion.
Serotonin - ANS✅✅a Neurotransmitter that Affects Mood, hunger, sleep and arousal
Norepinephrine - ANS✅✅a Neurotransmitter that helps control alertness and arousal
GABA - ANS✅✅A major inhibitory neurotransmitter
Glutamate - ANS✅✅A Major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory
The two types of Major nervous systems - ANS✅✅Peripheral nervous system and the Central
Nervous system
Somatic Nervous system - ANS✅✅enables voluntary control of skeletal muscles
Automatic Nervous System - ANS✅✅controls our glands and the muscles of our internal organs
graded A+
Define science of Psychology - ANS✅✅Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and mental
process
Empiricism - ANS✅✅Belief that knowledge comes exclusively through the senses or through
experience
Pseudoscience - ANS✅✅A fake or false science that makes claims based on little or no scientific
evidence.
Case Study - ANS✅✅An in-depth examination of one individual, or a small number of individuals
The Survey - ANS✅✅An investigation of many cases in less depth by asking people to report
opinions and behaviours
Naturalistic observation - ANS✅✅recording behaviour in its natural environments, and describing
it in detail
Experimentation - ANS✅✅Purpose is to explore cause and effect by manipulating one or more
factors, while holding other factors constant
independent variable - ANS✅✅The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose
effect is being studied (i.e if you are testing if breastfeeding kids has a difference or not in their
intelligence later in life, the independent variable is breast milk and formula)
Dependent Variable - ANS✅✅The outcome factor; the variable that may change in response to
manipulations of the independent variable.
Difference between Descriptive and correlational research methods - ANS✅✅Descriptive research
method is to observe and record behaviour. Correlational research method is to detect naturally
occurring relationships . Nothing is manipulated in these two research methods.
, Biological Psychology - ANS✅✅The basic assumption that everything psychological is biological
Phrenology - ANS✅✅A popular but wronged theory in the 1800's that claimed that bumps on the
skull could reveal mental abilities and character traits.
Sensory Neurons - ANS✅✅Carry messages from the body's tissues and sensory organs inward to
the brain and spinal cord for processing
Motor Neurons - ANS✅✅Carry Messages from the brain and out to the bodes tissues
How Neuron's Communicate - ANS✅✅When a neural impluse reaches the terminal of a an axon, it
triggers release of neurotransmitters into the synaptic gap.
Acetylcholine (ACH) - ANS✅✅A neurotransmitter that enables learning and memory and also
triggers muscle contraction
Dopamine - ANS✅✅a Neurotransmitter that influences movement, learning, attention, and
emotion.
Serotonin - ANS✅✅a Neurotransmitter that Affects Mood, hunger, sleep and arousal
Norepinephrine - ANS✅✅a Neurotransmitter that helps control alertness and arousal
GABA - ANS✅✅A major inhibitory neurotransmitter
Glutamate - ANS✅✅A Major excitatory neurotransmitter involved in memory
The two types of Major nervous systems - ANS✅✅Peripheral nervous system and the Central
Nervous system
Somatic Nervous system - ANS✅✅enables voluntary control of skeletal muscles
Automatic Nervous System - ANS✅✅controls our glands and the muscles of our internal organs
