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PSYCHOLOGY 100 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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PSYCHOLOGY 100 MIDTERM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

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Chemicals manufactured by the brain
Neurotransmitters that regulate pain receptors


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Endorphins




The process by which a form of physical energy is converted into a coded neural
signal that can be processed by the nervous system


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Transduction

,The tendency to persist in solving problems with solutions that have worked in the
past


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Mental set




The occurrence of a learned response to a specific stimulus but not to other similar
stimuli


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Stimulus Discrimination




A tentative statement about the relationship between 2 or more variables, a testable
prediction or question.


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Hypothesis




Subdivision of peripheral system that regulates involuntary functions


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, Autonomic nervous system




Serious and consistent sleep disturbances that interfere with daytime functioning and
cause subjective distress


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Sleep disorders




Analytic, creative , and practical


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Main theory of intelligence- Robert Sternberg 3 forms of intelligenc




Stage of memory where info is stored for up to about 20 seconds


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Short term




A clue, prompt, or hint that helps trigger a recall of a given piece of information
stored in long term memory


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, Retrieval Cue




A condition in which increasing amounts of a physically addictive drug are needed to
produce the original, desired effect


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Tolerance




A drug that alters consciousness, perception, mood , and behavior


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Psychoactive drug




First major school of thought in psychology.
Structuralism held that even our most complex conscious experiences could be
broken down into elemental structures, or component parts , of sensatons and
feelings.


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Structuralism- Edward B. Tichener




Twins are often used in studies of the relative contributions that heredity and
environment make to personality and other characteristics

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