Final gen psy 8

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Final Gen Psy Quiz

Test your knowledge in general psychology with our engaging quiz! This quiz covers various essential topics, including stress response, theories of development, neurotransmitters, neuropsychological disorders, and more.

  • 10 challenging questions
  • Multiple choice format
  • Great for students and psychology enthusiasts
10 Questions2 MinutesCreated by ExploringMind49
In the stress response, where is cortisol released from?
Pituitary gland
Adrenal glands
Pancrea
Hypothalamus
Hippocampus
Which of these theory of development includes an Anal Stage?
Freud's psychoanalytic theory
Chomsky's Language acquisition theory
Piaget's theory of cognitive development
Maslow's Humanistic theory
Bandura's Social Learning theory
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) mainly effects neurotransmission via receptors for which neurotransmitter substance?
Acetylcholine
Cortisol
Dopamine
Serotonin
Mushroom soup
Where is Wernicke's area?
Frontal lobe
Cerebellum
Above the kidneys
Temporal lobe
Occipital lobe
The Edwin Smith papyrus contains a description of which neuropsychological disorder?
Prosopagnosia
Dyscalculia
Dyslexia
Agnosia
Aphasia
Alexander and Hines (2002) showed that male monkeys prefer to play with toys associated with young boys, such as a ball or a police car. This suggests that some parts of gender roles may be
Learnt through observation
Learnt through operant conditioning
Conformity to stereotypes
Innate
Learnt through classical conditioning
Marr's computation approach to vision proposes a profession of processing form from a primal sketch to a 3-D representation, but which stage comes in between those two?
Figure-ground segmentation
Color processing
Categorization
2 1/2-D Sketch
Shade analysis
Who was the first person to call themselves ' psychologist'
Alan Turing
Sigmund Freud
Burrhus Skinner
Noam Chomsky
Wilhelm Wundt
Which kind of information can be used to define mental illness using DSM-5?
Physiological measures and blood sample analyses
Observed and reported symptoms and signs
Brain scans (particularly MRI)
Horoscopes
Genetic information
A resting potential exists when
A neuron's interior is in a steady state of negative charge
An axon depolarizes due to stimulation by neurotransmitter substances
A neurotransmitter is released into a synaptic cleft
A neuron is conducting impulses
The brain enters REM sleep
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