FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC

1101 EXAM 1

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-Guarantee passing score -43 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: The extensive network of specialized cells that carry information to and from all parts of the body

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Nervous system Question 2: Branch of neuroscience that focuses on the biological bases of psychological processes, behavior and learning

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Biological psychology/Behavioral neuroscience Question 3: Microscopic fluid-filled space between synaptic know of one cell and dendrites of next

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Synapse

Question 4: Variable that is affected by independent variable

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Dependent variable

Question 5: The tendency to believe after learning an outcome that you would have predicted

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Hindsight biased

Question 6: Ions moving from areas of high concentration to low concentration

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Diffusion Question 7: Science that deals with the structure and function of neurons, nerves and nervous tissue

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Neuroscience Question 8: Chemical found in synaptic vesicles; when released, has effect on next cell

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Neurotransmitter

Question 9: The state of the neuron when not firing an impulse

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Resting potential

Question 10: What was Wundt credited with?

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Finding the first psychology lab Developing the technique of introspection

Question 11: The science that focuses on observable behavior

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Behaviorism Question 12: Branches at the end of the axon; communicate with other nerve cells

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Axon terminals

Question 13: What are the major types of research design?

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Naturalistic Experimental Quasi-Experimental

Question 14: The study of cultural norms, values, and expectations

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Cultural psychology Question 15: Chemical substances that mimic/enhance the effects of a neurotransmitter on the receptor sites of the next cell

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Agonist Question 16: The theory of personality and the therapy based on it emphasizing the revealing of unconscious thoughts

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Freudian psychoanalysis

Question 17: Tubleike structure that carries neural message to other cells

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Axon

Question 18: "Certain forms of knowledge are Innate"

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Nativism

Question 19: What two pillars does psychology rest on?

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Philosophy and physiology Question 20: Focuses on the functions of the brain as well as the flow of conciousness

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Functionalism

Question 21: Bundles of axons coated in myelin that travel together through the body

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Nerves

Question 22: All or None

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Neurons fire at full strength or not at all Question 23: The basic cell that makes up the nervous system; receives/sends messages withing that system

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Neuron

Question 24: Variable experimenter manipulates

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Independent variable

Question 25: The science of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

Question 26: Focuses on contents of the mind

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Structuralism

Question 27: When neurotransmitter are taken back into synaptic vesicles

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Reuptake

Question 28: The tendency to be more confident than correct

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Overconfidence