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Low levels of this neurotransmitter are often seen in patients with depression

Serotonin

Cells that change one form of energy into neural impulses are known as

Receptor cells

What is a double-blind procedure?

Neither the experimenter nor the participant know who has received the placebo and who has received the independent variable

In order for an experiment’s results to be accepted the results must be…

Replicable

Excitatory neurotransmitter involved in learning and memory; Oversupply can lead to migraines or seizures

Glutamate

What is brain/neural plasticity?

When a brain part takes on a new function (usually due to brain damage in another area)

What is a projective test?

Personality tests that provide ambiguous stimuli to trigger projection of one’s inner thoughts and feelings; Thematic Apperception/Rorschach

A sound wave’s height indicates its…

Volume

A sound wave’s frequency indicates its…

Pitch

A light wave’s length indicates its…

Color

A wave lengths amplitude (height) indicates its…

Brightness

What is transduction?

The process where receptor cells turn one form of energy into a neural impulse

If the results of an experiment are statistically significant it means that…

The results were not due to change (p = .05 and below)

Who proposed the social-cognitive theory of personality?

Albert Bandura

What is reciprocal determinism?

Interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment (Part of Bandura’s theory on personality)

Expectancy that one’s efforts will be successful

Self-Efficacy

Who proposed the theory of personal control (internal v. external locus of control)?

Julian Rotter

What is an external locus of control?

Perception that chance or outside forces determine a person’s fate

The most widely used objective personality test (originally intended for psychiatric diagnosis)

Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2)

What stage of moral reasoning: Understand that people have different opinions about morality; Right or wrong depends on the situation

Postconventional

Stage where morality is about understanding what is expected of you

Conventional moral reasoning

Alert, waking brain waves

Beta waves

Slow, relaxed brain waves

Alpha waves

Large, slow waves that appear in deep sleep (stages 3 and 4)

Delta waves

What Axis of the DSM asks if there are psychosocial or environmental problems?

IV

What does Axis V of the DSM do/ask?

Assigns a global assessment (number from 0-100 that relates to person’s functioning)

Define nervous system

The body’s electrochemical communication system

How does myelination affect a neural impulse?

Allows action potential to skip the sections that are myelinated (jumps from Node of Ranvier to Node of Ranvier)

What is the major psychosocial struggle of old age?

Integrity v. Despair (When reflecting on his/her life, the older adult may feel a sense of satisfaction or failure)

Kubler-Ross’ stages of grief

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance