Psychology Final Exam

What is Psychology?

• The study of the human mind and behavior
• The study of the brain
• The study of humans
• The study of the life

What Biological influences affect individual development?

• Genetics
• Personality
• Gender roles

Which part of the brain is responsible for memory and learning?

• Hippocampus
• Hypothalamus
• Cortex
• Amygdala

What is responsible for sending, receiving, and transmitting signals throughout the body?

• Neurons
• Soma
• Axon
• Myelin

The most important addition to psychology which allowed it to be considered a science.

• Religion

• Psychoanalysis

• Scientific Method

• Behaviorism

True or False: Phineas Gage suffered a serious brain injury when a rod went through his brain

• True

• False

The chemicals that bridge the synaptic gap are called what?

• Myelin sheath

• Axon

• Neurotransmitters

• reuptake

Herbie's mother sent him to the store and told him 12 items to get. He didn't write them down. Which part of the list is he likely to remember?

• Beginning

• Middle

• End

• None of it

You are looking at the family album and see a picture of your sixth birthday party and you experience a bunch of memories about that party and the people that attended. What type of memory is this?

• Procedural

• Episodic

An irrational fear of spiders that brings about panic attacks when the word is even mentioned

• Fugue

• Phobia

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder