Psychology 1000 exam test
questions and answers graded A+
Psychodynamic - ANS✅✅how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
Behaviorist - ANS✅✅how we learn from observable responses
Ivan Pavlov and John Watson - ANS✅✅(Little Albert) classical conditioning; stimulus-response
B.F. Skinner - ANS✅✅operant conditioning
Cognitive - ANS✅✅study of brain activity linked with cognition, including perception, thinking,
memory and language
Humanistic - ANS✅✅significant perspective that emphasizes growth potential of healthy people
Naturalistic Observation - ANS✅✅observing and recording behavior in natural habitat, not
manipulating anything
Case study - ANS✅✅one person is studied in depth in hope of revealing universal principle
Experimental group - ANS✅✅group exposed to treatment
Control group - ANS✅✅group not exposed to treatment
Independent variable - ANS✅✅the experimental factor that is manipulated (variable's effect being
studied)
Dependent variable - ANS✅✅outcome factor; variable changed in response to manipulation of
independent variable
Limbic system controls... - ANS✅✅emotions, instincts, memories
, Cerebellum controls... - ANS✅✅balance and coordination
Thalamus is... - ANS✅✅relay station for information
Hypothalamus 4 F's - ANS✅✅feeding, fight or flight and sexual motivation
Cell body - ANS✅✅receives messages from dendrites and controls nucleus
Dendrite - ANS✅✅branch-like fibers that receive messages from other neurons
Axon - ANS✅✅sends messages away to next nerve cell
Synapse - ANS✅✅space between axon and dendrites
Endorphins - ANS✅✅elevate mood, erases pain
Dopamine - ANS✅✅movement
Reuptake - ANS✅✅when excess neurotransmitters are reabsorbed by synapse
Frontal lobe - ANS✅✅executive functioning, emotions, conciousness
Parietal lobe - ANS✅✅spatial processing, somatosensory, strip-part of parietal lobe, sensation of
touch
Occipital lobe - ANS✅✅vision
Temporal lobe - ANS✅✅hearing (midbrain), sensory processing (thalamus), four F's
(hypothalamus), learning and memory (hippocampus) emotion and memory (amygdala), motor
control (basal ganglia), hearing
questions and answers graded A+
Psychodynamic - ANS✅✅how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
Behaviorist - ANS✅✅how we learn from observable responses
Ivan Pavlov and John Watson - ANS✅✅(Little Albert) classical conditioning; stimulus-response
B.F. Skinner - ANS✅✅operant conditioning
Cognitive - ANS✅✅study of brain activity linked with cognition, including perception, thinking,
memory and language
Humanistic - ANS✅✅significant perspective that emphasizes growth potential of healthy people
Naturalistic Observation - ANS✅✅observing and recording behavior in natural habitat, not
manipulating anything
Case study - ANS✅✅one person is studied in depth in hope of revealing universal principle
Experimental group - ANS✅✅group exposed to treatment
Control group - ANS✅✅group not exposed to treatment
Independent variable - ANS✅✅the experimental factor that is manipulated (variable's effect being
studied)
Dependent variable - ANS✅✅outcome factor; variable changed in response to manipulation of
independent variable
Limbic system controls... - ANS✅✅emotions, instincts, memories
, Cerebellum controls... - ANS✅✅balance and coordination
Thalamus is... - ANS✅✅relay station for information
Hypothalamus 4 F's - ANS✅✅feeding, fight or flight and sexual motivation
Cell body - ANS✅✅receives messages from dendrites and controls nucleus
Dendrite - ANS✅✅branch-like fibers that receive messages from other neurons
Axon - ANS✅✅sends messages away to next nerve cell
Synapse - ANS✅✅space between axon and dendrites
Endorphins - ANS✅✅elevate mood, erases pain
Dopamine - ANS✅✅movement
Reuptake - ANS✅✅when excess neurotransmitters are reabsorbed by synapse
Frontal lobe - ANS✅✅executive functioning, emotions, conciousness
Parietal lobe - ANS✅✅spatial processing, somatosensory, strip-part of parietal lobe, sensation of
touch
Occipital lobe - ANS✅✅vision
Temporal lobe - ANS✅✅hearing (midbrain), sensory processing (thalamus), four F's
(hypothalamus), learning and memory (hippocampus) emotion and memory (amygdala), motor
control (basal ganglia), hearing
