The Human Body and Mind: Quiz
1. The ________________ are located at the top of the brain and contain the somatosensory cortex, which receives information about pressure, pain, touch, and temperature from all over the body. Parietal lobes
2. A __________________________ neither increases nor decreases the probability of a behavior. Neutral consequence
3. _____________________won a Nobel Prize for his work with salivating dogs and his theory of classical conditioning. Ivan Pavlov
4. ________________was an early twentieth century neurologist who argued that the unconscious part of the mind contains passions, guilty secrets, and conflicts that makes themselves known in dreams Freud
5. All self-help resources are based on empirical data (observation, experimentation, and measurement). false
6. As a whole, people act differently when they are part of a group. true
7. The autonomic nervous system _______________. both a and c
8. Because language is too complex to be learned bit by bit, linguist, Noam Chomsky, argued that the human brain must contain a(n) _________________. language acquisition devise
9. The Cerebrum is divided into two separate halves, which are called the _______________________. Cerebral hemispheres
10. Critical thinking is necessary in psychology to distinguish between pseudoscience and psychobabble. false
11. Culture can shape your perception. true
12. A descriptive study that looks for a consistent relationship between two phenomena is a(n)_____________________. correlational study
13. An early psychological approach that emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements coined by E.B. Titchener in the late 1800s was known as________________. structuralism
14. The first self-improvement program began in the: 19th century
15. The founder of scientific psychology: Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
16. From birth, boys and girls instinctively know how to act. false
17. Genetics can play a major role in mental disorders. true
18. The
2. A __________________________ neither increases nor decreases the probability of a behavior. Neutral consequence
3. _____________________won a Nobel Prize for his work with salivating dogs and his theory of classical conditioning. Ivan Pavlov
4. ________________was an early twentieth century neurologist who argued that the unconscious part of the mind contains passions, guilty secrets, and conflicts that makes themselves known in dreams Freud
5. All self-help resources are based on empirical data (observation, experimentation, and measurement). false
6. As a whole, people act differently when they are part of a group. true
7. The autonomic nervous system _______________. both a and c
8. Because language is too complex to be learned bit by bit, linguist, Noam Chomsky, argued that the human brain must contain a(n) _________________. language acquisition devise
9. The Cerebrum is divided into two separate halves, which are called the _______________________. Cerebral hemispheres
10. Critical thinking is necessary in psychology to distinguish between pseudoscience and psychobabble. false
11. Culture can shape your perception. true
12. A descriptive study that looks for a consistent relationship between two phenomena is a(n)_____________________. correlational study
13. An early psychological approach that emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements coined by E.B. Titchener in the late 1800s was known as________________. structuralism
14. The first self-improvement program began in the: 19th century
15. The founder of scientific psychology: Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920)
16. From birth, boys and girls instinctively know how to act. false
17. Genetics can play a major role in mental disorders. true
18. The