Referred pain, such as the pain that people sometimes feel in their left arms and shoulders when they are having a heart attach, is due to the way in which nerves come together in the spinal cord. The brain sometimes loses track of where the pain is coming from.
2.
In reference to question number 2. This theory explains the confusion of neural signals
Gate theory It seems that some non-pain stimulation can sometimes interfere with the experience of pain. This is the explanation behind such phenomena as the benefits of rubbing a painful area, the use of hot or cold compresses, acupuncture, and acupressure. There are people who have had damage to some part of these tracts, often after a stroke, who feel tingling or a burning pain that is aggravated by touch. Other people have damage higher in the brain that lets them feel pain like everyone else, but eliminates the connections to the emotional centers. They feel pain, but they don’t suffer emotionally.
A Quiz of General Psychology :)
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5.
The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Behavior is anything an organism does and mental processes are the internal, subjective experience we infer from behavior.
A.
Contemporary Psychology(correct answer)
B.
Cognitive Neuroscience
C.
Cognitive Focus
D.
Behaviorism(your answer)
3.
Special sensory neurons in the skin and other tissues of the body. It translates certain stimuli into action potentials that are then transmitted to more central parts of the nervous system
There are four kinds of nociceptors: Thermal nociceptors are sensitive to high or low temperatures. Mechanical nociceptors respond to strong pressure to the skin that comes with cuts and blows. These receptors respond quickly, and often trigger protective reflexes! Chemical nociceptors respond to a variety of chemicals released with tissue damage, as well as to external chemicals such as capsaicin (the chemical that makes hot peppers "hot") and spider venom. Polymodal nociceptors can be excited by strong pressure, by heat or cold, and by chemical stimulation as well. Silent (or sleeping) nociceptors stay quiet - hence the name - but become more sensitive to stimulation when they are surrounded by inflammation.
8.
In reference to number 7, after some modifications, the Papez Circuit is now known as the
In 1949, Paul McLean completed and corrected Papez’s ideas, and called the larger complex the limbic system, which is what we call it today. It included the hypothalamus, the hippocampus, and the amygdala, and is tightly connected with the cingulate gyrus, the ventral tegmental area of the brain stem, the septum, and the prefrontal gyrus
6.
He noted in 1937 that the physiological side of emotion is not just a matter of the hypothalamus, but a complex network of neural pathways
In 1937, James Papez noted that the physiological side of emotion is not just a matter of the hypothalamus, but is a complex network of neural pathways -- the Papez circuit.
7.
If you are doing this activity, then you are probably in an altered state of consciousness
Drugs, trauma, and fatigue can also cause altered states of consciousness. A high level of consciousness is requires for focusing tasks; a low level of consciousness is used for daydreaming. When you are asleep, you are in a subconscious level of awareness.
9. A condition wherein a person is about 35% over the ideal body weight
Possible correct answers:
Obesity
4.
This theory of emotion proposes that emotions happenas a resultof these, rather than being the cause of them
The sequence thus is as follows:
Event ==> arousal ==> interpretation ==> emotion
Example
I see a bear. My muscles tense, my heart races. I feel afraid.
11.
True or False: According to Atkinson and Shiffren, when your mind is processing information for your memory, sensory input travels from the working store, to the sensory store, to the long-term store
Personal space differs in size depending on the situation. Below are the four main personal space zones and their distances. Intimate zone- 0-0.5m - used for a close relationship. Personal zone- 0.5m-1.5m - maintained by close friends and enables conversation to take place. Social zone- 1.5-4m - this is for formal situations such as to do with business. Public- over 4m - General distance between strangers.
14. Most Psychologists agree that hypnosis involves
for many psychologists, hypersuggestibility is a synonym for "hypnosis." About the only thing everybody agrees about hypnosis is that people are very open to suggestion during this state.
13.
If you were looking for an employee who could find minute differences between small objects, ideally he would have
A difference threshold is the smallest difference in stimulation needed for someone to notice a difference between two stimuli fifty percent of the time. A lower difference threshold means that it takes less of a change from one to the other for him to catch the difference.
12.
The traditional approach, divides the memory into three parts, the first part of the memory is the very short term memory, better known as
The first part is called the sensory register (or "very short-term memory"). It is an experience that lasts for a very short time because it takes a second or two for the sensory neurons and the neurons that come right after them to recover from stimulation. If you look at a window, then shut your eyes tight, you will still see the window for a moment, and then see a reversed image of the window (where white becomes black, red becomes green, blue becomes yellow, and so on). Then it all fades back to black.
Possible correct answers:
James-Lange Theory
10. A cognitive Psychologist is most likely to be interested in
Memory and perception are typical concerns of cognitive psychologists. Cognition is "thinking" or "human information processing" and involves all sorts of mental activities which can be studied directly or simulated on computers, such as memory, problem solving, perception, and language comprehension
16.
Some psychologists, echoing Watson, point out that consciousness is subjective and "if you can measure it..."
A.
"I'll be a monkey's uncle...no offense to Darwin"
B.
"that will only be the beginning of a long, uncertain validation process"
C.
"you just have neural activity, not consciousness"
D.
"then, and only then, will you have a science"(your answer)
E.
"you are in fact studying behavior"(correct answer)
Behavior is activity. As an outside observer you measure consciousness only indirectly, by measuring some sort of activity (speech, brain activity, reaction time...) performed by another person. So (the argument runs) you cannot measure consciousness directly, and if you can measure something, it is behavior. You can study brain activity, or verbal self-reports of consciousness, or reaction times, but all those things are behaviors.
