Exam 1 Review

Your brother has been taking prescription medicine and experiencing a number of unpleasant side effects including unusually rapid heartbeat and excessive perspiration. It is likely that the medicine is exaggerating activity in the:

• Reticular Formation

• Sympathetic nervous system

• Parasympathetic nervous system

• Amygdala

After 3 hours of playing a physically exhausting professional tennis match, China began to experience a sense of physical exhilaration and pleasure. It is likely that her feelings were most directly linked to the release of:

• Dopamine

• Acetylcholine

• Endorphins

• Insulin

The _____ receive messages from other neurons, while the ____ carry messages on to other neurons or to muscle or gland cells

• Cell Bodies: Dendrites

• Dendrites: Axons

• Axons: Dendrites

• Myelin Sheath: Cell Bodies

Random Sampling is to ____ as random assignment is to ____

• Correlational studies; case studies

• Surveys; Experiments

• Replication; Correlation

• Description; Prediction

Professor Carter observes and records the behavior of grocery shoppers as they select items to purchase. Which type of research is Professor Carter using?

• Survey research

• Case study

• Experimentation

• Naturalistic observation

A factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment is called a:

• Wording effect

• Correlation Coefficient

• Placebo Effect

• Confounding variable

Cortical areas that are NOT primarily concerned with sensory, motor, or language functions are

• A) Projection areas.

• B) Association areas.

• C) Located mostly in the parietal lobe.

• D) Located mostly in the temporal lobe.

Assessing how well one variable predicts another variable is to _________ as detecting cause-effect relationships between different variables is to _________.

• Naturalistic observation; case studies

• Descriptive methods; correlational methods

• A control group; an experimental group

• Correlational research; experimental research

The brain devotes more tissue within the ________ for body areas requiring the most precise movement control such as the fingers.

• Hippocampus

• Corpus callosum

• Occipital lobes

• Motor cortex

Which major force in psychology emphasized unconscious thought processes?

• Evolutionary psychology

• Freudian psychology (Psychodynamic)

• Behavior genetics

• Behaviorism