6/17/25, 12:55 PM Psych 100 PSU (2025) comprehensive questions and verified answers ( detailed & elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST!! Flas…
Psych 100 PSU (2025-2026 ) comprehensive questions and
verified answers ( detailed & elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM
2025 TEST BANK EXAM
psychology the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
representative sample randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population of
subjects
scientific method a system for reducing bias and error in the measurement of data
Unconscious: mind into which we push, or repress, all
of our threatening urges and desires, stressed the
Sigmund Freud importance of early childhood experiences, patients
with
"nervous disorders"- no physical cause, psychoanalysis:
theory and therapy based on Freud's work, believed
people were highly influenced by unconscious processes
and childhood experiences, we unconsciously repress
urges that are threatening to us
structuralism study of the structure of the mind, Gestalt is a reaction to
structuralism
father of psychology, mind consists of basic elements analyzed
Wilheim Wundt via objective
introspection, brought objectivity and measurement to
psychology, non-physical elements (experience,
thoughts, emotions- attempted to study
systematically)
the release of the neural impulse consisting of a
action potential reversal of the electrical charge within the axon, when
the action potential gets to the end of an axon the
message gets transmitted to another cell
afferent neurons ...
chemical substances that mimic or enhance the effects
agonist
of a neurotransmitter on the receptor sites of the next
cell, increasing or decreasing the activity of that cell
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,6/17/25, 12:55 PM Psych 100 PSU (2025) comprehensive questions and verified answers ( detailed & elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST!! Flas…
brain structure located near the hippocampus,
amygdala responsible for fear responses and memory of fear,
influences our motivation, emotional control, fear
response, and
interpretations of nonverbal emotional expressions
chemical substances that block or reduce a cell's
antagonist
response to the action of other chemicals or
neurotransmitters
automatically regulates glands, internal organs, and
autonomic nervous system blood vessels, pupil dilation, digestion, and blood
pressure, division of the PNS consisting of nerves that
control all of the involuntary muscles, organs, and
glands
LEFT frontal lobe; neurologist, first to identify and understand the
Broca's area function of this
area, speech production (have a smooth, fluent
conversation), damage: slur speech, say the wrong
words
central nervous system part of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord
cerebellum controls and coordinates involuntary, rapid, fine motor
movement
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cingulate cortex ...
communication between cells ...
corpus callosum thin band of neurons that connects the right and lest cerebral
hemispheres
outer covering of the brain- responsible for higher
cortex
thought processes and interpretation of sensory
input
efferent neurons responsible for communicating from the CNS to different muscles
in the body
separate, and insulate the neurons from each other, make up 90%
glial cells of the brain,
generate myelin, support neurons, deliver nutrients and
neurons, coat axons, clean up waste and dead
neurons, introduce generations of new neurons
(prenatal)
(seahorse) plays a role in our learning, memory, and
hippocampus
ability to compare sensory information to
expectations
controls hunger, thirst, sleep, sexual behavior, sleeping
hypothalamus
and waking, emotions, and pituitary gland
interneurons found in the center of the spinal cords, connect the afferent and
efferent neurons
group of several brain structures located under the
limbic system
cortex: involved in learning, emotion, memory and
motivation
lobes of the brain ...
bottom of the brain going into the spinal column, life-
medulla
sustaining functions like breathing, swallowing, and
heart rate
methods for studying the ...
brain
fatty substances produced by certain glial cells that
myelin
coat the axons of neurons to insulate, protect, and
spread p the neural impulse
an extensive network of specialized cells tat carries
nervous system
information to and from all parts of the body
neural impulse ...
neuron (structure) ...
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Psych 100 PSU (2025-2026 ) comprehensive questions and
verified answers ( detailed & elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM
2025 TEST BANK EXAM
psychology the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
representative sample randomly selected sample of subjects from a larger population of
subjects
scientific method a system for reducing bias and error in the measurement of data
Unconscious: mind into which we push, or repress, all
of our threatening urges and desires, stressed the
Sigmund Freud importance of early childhood experiences, patients
with
"nervous disorders"- no physical cause, psychoanalysis:
theory and therapy based on Freud's work, believed
people were highly influenced by unconscious processes
and childhood experiences, we unconsciously repress
urges that are threatening to us
structuralism study of the structure of the mind, Gestalt is a reaction to
structuralism
father of psychology, mind consists of basic elements analyzed
Wilheim Wundt via objective
introspection, brought objectivity and measurement to
psychology, non-physical elements (experience,
thoughts, emotions- attempted to study
systematically)
the release of the neural impulse consisting of a
action potential reversal of the electrical charge within the axon, when
the action potential gets to the end of an axon the
message gets transmitted to another cell
afferent neurons ...
chemical substances that mimic or enhance the effects
agonist
of a neurotransmitter on the receptor sites of the next
cell, increasing or decreasing the activity of that cell
… 1/22
,6/17/25, 12:55 PM Psych 100 PSU (2025) comprehensive questions and verified answers ( detailed & elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST!! Flas…
brain structure located near the hippocampus,
amygdala responsible for fear responses and memory of fear,
influences our motivation, emotional control, fear
response, and
interpretations of nonverbal emotional expressions
chemical substances that block or reduce a cell's
antagonist
response to the action of other chemicals or
neurotransmitters
automatically regulates glands, internal organs, and
autonomic nervous system blood vessels, pupil dilation, digestion, and blood
pressure, division of the PNS consisting of nerves that
control all of the involuntary muscles, organs, and
glands
LEFT frontal lobe; neurologist, first to identify and understand the
Broca's area function of this
area, speech production (have a smooth, fluent
conversation), damage: slur speech, say the wrong
words
central nervous system part of the nervous system consisting of the brain and spinal cord
cerebellum controls and coordinates involuntary, rapid, fine motor
movement
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, 6/17/25, 12:55 PM Psych 100 PSU (2025) comprehensive questions and verified answers ( detailed & elaborated) ACTUAL EXAM 2025 TEST!! Flas…
cingulate cortex ...
communication between cells ...
corpus callosum thin band of neurons that connects the right and lest cerebral
hemispheres
outer covering of the brain- responsible for higher
cortex
thought processes and interpretation of sensory
input
efferent neurons responsible for communicating from the CNS to different muscles
in the body
separate, and insulate the neurons from each other, make up 90%
glial cells of the brain,
generate myelin, support neurons, deliver nutrients and
neurons, coat axons, clean up waste and dead
neurons, introduce generations of new neurons
(prenatal)
(seahorse) plays a role in our learning, memory, and
hippocampus
ability to compare sensory information to
expectations
controls hunger, thirst, sleep, sexual behavior, sleeping
hypothalamus
and waking, emotions, and pituitary gland
interneurons found in the center of the spinal cords, connect the afferent and
efferent neurons
group of several brain structures located under the
limbic system
cortex: involved in learning, emotion, memory and
motivation
lobes of the brain ...
bottom of the brain going into the spinal column, life-
medulla
sustaining functions like breathing, swallowing, and
heart rate
methods for studying the ...
brain
fatty substances produced by certain glial cells that
myelin
coat the axons of neurons to insulate, protect, and
spread p the neural impulse
an extensive network of specialized cells tat carries
nervous system
information to and from all parts of the body
neural impulse ...
neuron (structure) ...
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