Psychology Final Review

Which of the below is an example of a hindsight bias? 

• You got a question wrong on a test and upon review you said, “I knew it! Aww man! I should have gone with my instinct!” 

• You get in a car accident and weeks later, you replay the accident in your head and keep second guessing whether you could have avoided it?

• You tell a doctor “Well I could have told you that!” 

• All of the above

What are the glial cells? 

• A nerve impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down the axon.

• A nerve cell: the basic building block of the nervous system

• Cells in the nervous system that support, nourish, and protect neurons; they also play a role in learning, thinking, and memory. 

• Neuron extensions that receive messages and conduct them toward the cell body.

What is plasticity?

• Neuron extensions that receive messages and conduct them toward the cell body. 

• The brain’s ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.

• A nerve cell: the basic building block of the nervous system

• In neural processing, a brief resting pause that occurs after a neuron has fired; subsequent action potentials cannot occur until the axon returns to its resting state

The frontal lobes are in control of ________

• higher cognitive thought processes.

• auditory functions

• visual functions

• controlling the basic emotions

The Limbic system controls 

 

• auditory process 

• the basic emotions

• the muscular system 

• all of the above 

The hippocampus is thought to be 

• the center of emotion, memory, and the autonomic nervous system. 

• the place where dreams are created 

• the location of the unconscious 

• all of the above 

The occipital lobe 

• contains most of the anatomical region of the visual cortex. 

• contains the auditory functions

• contains your sense of smell

• all of the above 

The temporal lobe 

 

• Contains the visual cortex 

• Contains auditory and receptive areas. 

• Contains the pain receptors 

• All of the above 

The medulla controls the  

• the nervous system 

• autonomic (involuntary) functions ranging from vomiting to sneezing. 

• visual cortex 

• all of the above 

What is psychology? 

• The scientific study of behavior 

• The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those affecting behavior in a given context

• The scientific study of how people interact in society

• None of the above