PSY 102 – General Psychology | Verified
Questions with Detailed Answers[updated 2025]
1. Psychology
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
2. psychiatry
a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; who sometimes
provide medical (for example, drug) treatments
3. free will
The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices
4. Determinism
the philosophy that holds that every event, action, and decision results from
something independent of the human will
5. Nature
the influence of our inherited characteristics on our personality, physical
growth, intellectual growth, and social interactions
6. nurture
the influence of our environment
,7. CNS (central nervous system)
includes the brain and spinal cord
8. PNS (peripheral nervous system)
the sensory and motor neurons that connect the CNS to the rest of the body
9. Cerebellum function
process and store information, coordinates voluntary movements (posture,
balance, speech)
10.Cerebrum
Largest part of the brain; responsible for voluntary muscular activity, vision,
speech, taste, hearing, thought, and memory.
11.involentary
autonomic nervous system
12.Voluntary
somatic nervous system
, 13.The brain
The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous
system
14.electrical communication
travel up and down the spinal cord, sending signals which allow different
segments of the body to communicate with the brain.
15.cervical vertebrae
neck
16.Thoracic
chest
17.spinal nerves
carry impulses to and from the spinal cord
18.Receptor
A small area on the dendrite that receives the signal from the other neuron
19.afferent pathway
component of reflex arc that transmits information from receptor to
integrating center
Questions with Detailed Answers[updated 2025]
1. Psychology
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
2. psychiatry
a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; who sometimes
provide medical (for example, drug) treatments
3. free will
The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices
4. Determinism
the philosophy that holds that every event, action, and decision results from
something independent of the human will
5. Nature
the influence of our inherited characteristics on our personality, physical
growth, intellectual growth, and social interactions
6. nurture
the influence of our environment
,7. CNS (central nervous system)
includes the brain and spinal cord
8. PNS (peripheral nervous system)
the sensory and motor neurons that connect the CNS to the rest of the body
9. Cerebellum function
process and store information, coordinates voluntary movements (posture,
balance, speech)
10.Cerebrum
Largest part of the brain; responsible for voluntary muscular activity, vision,
speech, taste, hearing, thought, and memory.
11.involentary
autonomic nervous system
12.Voluntary
somatic nervous system
, 13.The brain
The mass of nerve tissue that is the main control center of the nervous
system
14.electrical communication
travel up and down the spinal cord, sending signals which allow different
segments of the body to communicate with the brain.
15.cervical vertebrae
neck
16.Thoracic
chest
17.spinal nerves
carry impulses to and from the spinal cord
18.Receptor
A small area on the dendrite that receives the signal from the other neuron
19.afferent pathway
component of reflex arc that transmits information from receptor to
integrating center
