Review
Psychology Unit Test
1. Define
a) psychology
b) humours
c) phrenology
d) clinical psychology
e) developmental psychology
f) memory
g) stimuli
h) digital natives
i) executive function
j) non-verbal thinking skills
k) projection
l) classical conditioning
m) operant conditioning
n) observational learning
o) cognition
2. Chart
Branch of Psychology Psychologist
Approach
3. Describe
The difference between sensation and perception:
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Three factors that influence perception:
123The three types of memory, described:
123The three levels of memory described:
123What the ancient Greeks believed about personality and temperament:
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The nature of John Locke’s contribution to understanding of the mind:
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Synesthesia
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Congenital Analgesia and the importance of pain:
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The nature and causes of “pain”:
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The findings on the acquisition of sight we learned from the case of Michael May:
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4. Find
The functions for the following parts of the brain:
left hemisphere
right hemisphere
frontal lobe
parietal lobe
occipital lobe
temporal lobes
corpus callosum
hypothalamus
cerebral cortex
amygdala
5. Draw
The three parts of a brain nerve cell (neuron). Note the function of each part!
6. Chart the learning experiments of each psychologist:
Psychologist
Type of learning
Or Theory
Subjects
Description of
experiment
Pavlov
Watson
Skinner
Bandura
Implications:
7. Explain
a) Why teens are “Crazy by Design”:
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b) Changes experienced by the adolescent brain, ages 11- 20:
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c) The negative impact of technology on teen brain development:
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d) Describe how classical learning works, using the example of Pavlov’s dog or
Watson’s “Baby Albert”.
Explain with a diagram of the terms (UCS, UCR, CS, CR), in the three steps.
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Step 1:
Step 2:
Step 3:
e) The meaning of dreams from the Freudian and cognitive psychology perspectives:
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8. Compare
Three types of Reasoning:
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