Psychology 304 Midterm 1 (UO Winter) Exam Questions With Correct Answers

Psychology 304 Midterm 1 (UO Winter)
Exam Questions With Correct Answers

Biopsychology - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-the scientific study of biology /
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physiology of behavior. applying biological approach to the study of
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psychology.


issues in biopsych - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1. prevalence of neurological
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|disorders
2. prevalence of psychiatric disorders
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3. artificial intelligence
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4. evolution
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5. conciousness
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somatic effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-changes in hormone levels ->
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put male in presence of female
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behavioral intentions - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-put male in presence of
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female -> changes in hormone levels
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,Aristotle - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-thought that thought happened in the
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heart
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Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-thought that thought happened in
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the brain
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Rene Decartes - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- mechanical explanation of
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behavior
- dualism, material and nervous system plus non-material world
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Luigi Galvani - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- discovered frogs leg would
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twitch with electric current
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- first evidence nervous system is electric
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Helmholtz - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-measured rate of nerve conduction,
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slower than electrical wire
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Johannes Muller - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- doctrine of specific nerve
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energies |




- brain is functionally divided
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Fritsch and Hitzig - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- electric current to dog's
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brain

, - discovered motor cortex
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Camillo Golgi - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- anatomical staining technique
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- that revealed fine structure of neurons
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- proposed Reticular Theory (neurons are fused together)
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Santiago Ramon y Cajal - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- performed
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anatomical study of brains | | |




- Neuron Doctrine
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- argued separate cells
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Francis Crick - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-- the astonishing hypothesis
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- mental activity attributed to nerve cells, glial cells, and atoms, ions,
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and molecules
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how many neurons in brain? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1 billion
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how many glial cells in brain? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1 billion
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how many synapses in brain? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-1 quadrillion
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glial cell - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-support cell, regulates blood flow
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