PSY 352 LATEST COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Amygdala - ✔✔Regulates emotions
✔✔Structure of the Cortex - ✔✔1. Frontal lobe
2. Occipital lobe (back of head)
3. Temporal lobe (sides of head)
4. parietal lobe
✔✔Left temporal lobe - ✔✔language area
-Wenicke's area
-Broca's area
✔✔Language - ✔✔1. Visual cortex
2. Angular gyrus
3. Wenicke's area
4. Broca's area
✔✔Angular gyrus - ✔✔transforms visual representations into an auditory code
✔✔Wernicke's area - ✔✔interprets auditory code
*think about what we're doing when we listen to Dr. B
, ✔✔Broca's area - ✔✔controls speech muscles via the motor cortex
*Dr. B uses this area a lot to talk
✔✔Aphasia - ✔✔An impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere
damage either to Broca's area (impaired speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impaired
understanding)
✔✔Psychological Models - ✔✔1. Psychodynamic (Freud)
2. Behavioral
3. Cognitive
4. Humanistic
5. Existential/spiritual
✔✔Psychosexual development theory - ✔✔Different stages where the libido (source of
sexual pleasure)
1. Oral
2. Anal (retentive/uptight, expulsive/messy)
3. Phallic (*Oedipus complex and Penal envy)
4. Latency (late childhood, less mental illness, libido is resting)
5. Genital (Adult)
*If you don't resolve the emotional issues at each stage, you get stuck there
✔✔Most important construct in Freudian theory - ✔✔The Unconscious Mind
(represented by an iceberg)
-conscious part is just the tip of the iceberg
-id
-ego
-superego
✔✔Id - ✔✔Pleasure principle. Primary process thinking, born with it
-baby of the psyche
✔✔Ego - ✔✔Reality principle. Secondary process thinking
-Most mature part of me, balances compromise between id and ego
✔✔Superego - ✔✔Moral imperatives, ideals
-Policeman of the psyche, strict mom
✔✔TED Talk
Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness - ✔✔Today, thanks to
better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were
just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental
Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Amygdala - ✔✔Regulates emotions
✔✔Structure of the Cortex - ✔✔1. Frontal lobe
2. Occipital lobe (back of head)
3. Temporal lobe (sides of head)
4. parietal lobe
✔✔Left temporal lobe - ✔✔language area
-Wenicke's area
-Broca's area
✔✔Language - ✔✔1. Visual cortex
2. Angular gyrus
3. Wenicke's area
4. Broca's area
✔✔Angular gyrus - ✔✔transforms visual representations into an auditory code
✔✔Wernicke's area - ✔✔interprets auditory code
*think about what we're doing when we listen to Dr. B
, ✔✔Broca's area - ✔✔controls speech muscles via the motor cortex
*Dr. B uses this area a lot to talk
✔✔Aphasia - ✔✔An impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere
damage either to Broca's area (impaired speaking) or to Wernicke's area (impaired
understanding)
✔✔Psychological Models - ✔✔1. Psychodynamic (Freud)
2. Behavioral
3. Cognitive
4. Humanistic
5. Existential/spiritual
✔✔Psychosexual development theory - ✔✔Different stages where the libido (source of
sexual pleasure)
1. Oral
2. Anal (retentive/uptight, expulsive/messy)
3. Phallic (*Oedipus complex and Penal envy)
4. Latency (late childhood, less mental illness, libido is resting)
5. Genital (Adult)
*If you don't resolve the emotional issues at each stage, you get stuck there
✔✔Most important construct in Freudian theory - ✔✔The Unconscious Mind
(represented by an iceberg)
-conscious part is just the tip of the iceberg
-id
-ego
-superego
✔✔Id - ✔✔Pleasure principle. Primary process thinking, born with it
-baby of the psyche
✔✔Ego - ✔✔Reality principle. Secondary process thinking
-Most mature part of me, balances compromise between id and ego
✔✔Superego - ✔✔Moral imperatives, ideals
-Policeman of the psyche, strict mom
✔✔TED Talk
Thomas Insel: Toward a new understanding of mental illness - ✔✔Today, thanks to
better early detection, there are 63% fewer deaths from heart disease than there were
just a few decades ago. Thomas Insel, the director of the National Institute of Mental
Health, wonders: Could we do the same for depression and schizophrenia? The first
