Psychology Midterm Review

How would Jay's parapsympathetic nervous system respond at the end of gym class?

• increasing the supply of oxygen to blood tissue

• suspending digestion

• reducing the heart rate

• increasing blood flow to muscles

Increases & decreases in your heart rate are determined by the

• somatic nervous system

• autonomic nervous system

• central nervous system

• brain & spinal cord

What is a physiological process?

• thinking

• reasoning

• breathing

• remembering

Prediction about behavior tested through research

• data

• hypothesis

• principle

• theory

Belief that perception is more than the sum of its parts

• cognitivism

• humanisim

• functionalism

• Gestalt

Which of the following was NOT a behaviorist?

• Ivan Pavlov

• BF Skinner

• Sigmund Freud

• John B. Watson

What type psychology did Abraham Maslow & Carl Rogers belong to?

• clinical

• developmental

• humanistic

• physiobiological

too little of this is associated with Alzheimer's

• acetylcholine

• GABA

• serotonin

• dopamine

autonomic nervous system regulates the action of the

• central nervous system

• involuntary muscles and organs

• somatic nervous system

• voluntary skeletal muscles

What do nervous system & endocrine system have in common?

• both use adrenaline to function

• neither includes any body organs

• both regulate skeletal growth

• both are communication systems