General Psych Final Review ~ 2015
Name:_________________________________
Directions: COMPLETE ALL 115 of these terms for credit toward your 4th Q grade
1. The definition of psychology is:
14. What is a problem associated with archival
research?
2. What type of psychologist would explain a
person's behavior based on what is happening in
the person’s brain?
15. The national census, conducted every 10 years,
is an example of which kind of research?
16. Define CASE STUDY:
3. What type of psychologist would be interested in
why someone does something in reaction to
others or the group?
4. What is primary difference between
psychologists and psychiatrists?
5. Define PHRENOLOGY:
17. Define CORRELATION:
18. Define NEGATIVE CORRELATION:
19. Define POSITIVE CORRELATION:
6. Why is the year 1879 so important in the field of
psychology?
7. Write a key word or words for each of the
perspectives:
a. Humanistic =
b. Biological (Neuroscience) =
c. Cognitive =
d. Social/Cultural=
e. Behavioral =
f. Psychoanalytic =
8. Which perspective rejected psychology's early
emphasis on the internal workings of the mind.
9. What is the key issue in psychology that
contrasts the heredity with the environment as
the major influence on behavior:
10. What is the difference between a theory & a
hypothesis?
11. Define OPERATIONALIZE:
20. In correlational research, the strength of the
relationship between two variables is indicated
by:
21. What is the major problem involved in
conducting a correlational study?
22. What does the term experimental manipulation
mean?
23. What is the main advantage of experimental
research?
24. The subjects in the control group experience all
the factors that the subjects in the experimental
group are experiencing except:
25. The dependent variable is defined as the factor
in a study that:
26. The independent variable in an experiment is
defined as the:
27. What was the dependent variable in the Latané
and Darley study of bystander helpfulness was:
28. Define CORRELATIONAL COEFFICIENT:
12. Define ARCHIVAL RESEARCH:
13. What are the advantages of using archives?
29. Define PLACEBO:
#1-29 can be found in Unit 1
#30-53 can be found in Unit 2
30. Which feature of the neuron makes it distinct as
compared to other cells in the body?
55. Define PERCEPTION:
31. Define DENTRITE:
56. Define STIMULUS:
32. Define MYELIN SHEATH:
57. Define ABSOLUTE THRESHOLD:
33. Give an analogy for the function of myelin:
58. Define DIFFERNCE THRESHOLD:
34. Damaged or insufficient myelin sheath would
cause the nerve impulse to travel…?
59. Define SENSORY ADAPTATION:
35. The speed of transmission in a neuron will occur
fastest if what is true about the myelin sheath
around the axon?
36. Define ACTION POTENTIAL:
37. Where are neurotransmitters stored?
38. Define SYNAPSE:
#54-68 can
be found in
Unit 5
39. Too much dopamine? Too little dopamine?
40. Too little SEROTONIN:
60. Define BLIND SPOT:
61. Define AFTERIMAGE:
62. List the receptor pairs in opponent-process
theory:
63. Define PHEROMONES:
64. The chemical that transmits pain messages to the
brain is known as…
41. Define EEG:
65. According to the gate-control theory of pain,
how can the gates that allow for the perception
of pain close?
42. Define MRI:
66. Olfactory cells are found in the:
43. Define CEREBRAL CORTEX:
67. Define PERCEPTUAL CONSTANCY.
44. OCCIPITAL LOBE:
68. Define SUBLIMINAL PERCEPTION:
45. TEMPORAL LOBE:
46. FRONTAL LOBE:
#69-86 can
be found in
Unit 2
47. PARIETAL LOBE:
48. DEFINE CEREBELLUM:
49. Define HYPOTHALAMUS:
69. Describe one’s body during REM sleep.
70. During a typical night of sleep, the length of
stage 4 sleep _______________, and the length
of REM sleep _______________.
71. When people are deprived of REM sleep, they
show which of the following behaviors when
they can rest without disturbance?
72. Define ALPHA WAVES:
50. Define ASSOCIATION AREAS:
51. What happened to railroad worker Phineas
Gage?
52. The language disorder in which speech sounds
fluent but makes no sense is:
53. DEFINE neuroplasticity
54. Define SENSATION:
73. Define DELTA WAVES:
74. In a typical night's sleep, the longest dream for
most sleepers is most likely to occur:
75. Sleepers are least responsive to outside
stimulation during which stage of sleep?
76. The theory that proposed that dreams represent
forbidden and unknown desires is the
____________________ theory.
94. In the Little Albert studies (Watson & Rayner,
1920), the conditioned response (CR) was
95. Define EXTINCTION:
77. Define MANIFEST CONTENT of dreams:
96. Define GENERALIZATION:
78. Define LATENT CONTENT of dream:
97. Define SPONTANEOUS RECOVERY:
79. Define ACTIVATION SYNTHESIS Theory of
Dreaming:
98. The law of effect states that…
80. Define DREAMS-FOR-SURVIVAL Theory of
Dreaming:
99. Who is the psychologist most closely associated
with research on operant conditioning?
81. Define UNCONSCIOUS WISH
FULFILLMENT Theory of Dreaming:
100.
Define THORNDIKE’S PUZZLE BOX:
101.
Define SKINNER BOX:
82. What is the primary characteristic of hypnosis?
102.
When the probability that a behavior
will occur again increases, ______ has occurred.
83. What is ongoing controversy regarding
hypnosis?
84. Addictive drugs differ from ordinary medication
because they:
85. What do caffeine and cocaine have in common?
86. What is the difference between classical and
operant conditioning?
#86-110 can
87. In Pavlov's classic studies on classical
be found in
conditioning, the neutral stimulus (NS) was
Unit 6
88. In Pavlov's classic studies on classical
conditioning, the unconditioned stimulus (UCS)
was
103.
A reinforcer is a stimulus that…
104.
Define POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT:
105.
When a person's behavior increases
because an unpleasant stimulus is removed from
her environment, then she has experienced a
_____.
106.
When the probability that a behavior
will occur again decreases, _____ has occurred.
107.
One advantage of using punishment to
change behavior is that punishment …
108.
What is a disadvantage of using
punishment to change behavior?
89. In Pavlov's classic studies on classical
conditioning, the unconditioned response
(UCR) was
109.
90. In Pavlov's classic studies on classical
conditioning, the conditioned stimulus (CS) was
91. In Pavlov's classic studies on classical
#111-115
conditioning, the conditioned response (CR)
was
can be
92. Watson and Rayner's (1920) research usingfound
Little Albert was important for showing that…
in
Unit 7
93. In the Little Albert studies (Watson & Rayner,
1920), the conditioned stimulus (CS) was
Define SHAPING:
110.
Define OBSERVATIONAL
LEARNING:
111.
DEFINE ENCODING:
112.
Define PROCEDURAL MEMORY:
113.
Define EPISODIC MEMORY:
114.
Describe the difference between
IMPLICIT & EXPLICIT MEMORY:
115.
Define FLASHBULB MEMORY: