Psyc-200 Exam 2 Review

Basic units of the nervous system?

• Nerves

• Neurons

• Glial cells

• Dendrite

Sensory and motor neurons make up the Central Nervous System

• True

• False

What is the correct order/direction of travel within the neuron?

• Terminal Buttons, Axon, Cell Body/Soma, Dendrites

• Dendrites, Axon, Cell Body/Soma, Terminal Buttons

• Dendrites, Cell Body/Soma, Axon, Terminal Buttons

• None of the Above

Which of these is NOT a reason we need sleep?

• Healing

• Memory consolidation /Learning

• Maintaining Circadian Rhythm

• Reducing sleep disorders

Narcolepsy?

• Periods in sleep where the person stops breathing

• Walking/moving about in sleep when the body should be in a paralytic state

• Excessive sleepiness during daytime including random short periods of unconsciousness

• General lack of sleep that impacts cognitive function and mood.

Subliminal messaging has little to no effect on behavior

• True

• False

What is learning?

• Relatively enduring change in behavior as a response to experience

• Inherited intelligence

• Short-term behavioral adaptations

• What I'm doing right now

Natural/instinctual response to stimuli

• Reinforcement

• Conditioned response

• Unconditioned response

• Conditioning

Positive Reinforcement

• Introducing an unpleasant stimulus to reduce behavior

• Introducing a pleasant stimulus to increase behavior

• Removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase behavior

• Removing a pleasant stimulus to reduce behavior

Which of these does not increase the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated after modeled?

• The model is respected/an authority

• The model receives positive feedback for their behavior

• Model receives negative feedback for their behavior

• Model is attractive