Intro to Psychology CLEP Test – Study Guide and Exam Preparation
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Wilhelm Wundt - ANS ✔✔Set up the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany.
Structuralists - ANS ✔✔People that believe that consciousness is made up of basic elements
that are combined in different ways to produce different perceptions.
Functionalists - ANS ✔✔People who focus on how mental experiences are adaptive.
Psychodynamic Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that believes thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
stem from the interaction of innate drives, and society's restrictions on the expression of those
drives. (specifically, sexual and aggressive drives)
Behavioral Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that focuses on how people react to changes in
environmental stimuli.
Biological Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that focuses on how the physiological process might
produce a psychological phenomena.
Cognitive Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that explains behavior in terms of thoughts and
feelings.
Humanistic Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that states a human's behaviors are determined by
a genetic code. They believe that people are "basically good".
Independent Variable - ANS ✔✔The variable in an experiment that causes a change in another
variable.
, Dependent Variable - ANS ✔✔The variable in an experiment that is the result of another
variable.
Correlational Coefficient - ANS ✔✔A _________ is a similarity between two things that
describes the strength of the relationship.
Sensory Neurons - ANS ✔✔Takes information from the body and transmits it to the brain.
Motor Neurons - ANS ✔✔Sends information from the brain to the body.
Serotonin - ANS ✔✔Controls arousal and sleep. Low levels of ______ usually indicate
depression.
Agonists - ANS ✔✔Drugs that mimic a particular nerotransmitter or block it's signal.
Peripheral Nervous System - ANS ✔✔Includes the sensory and motor neurons that connect the
brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.
Somatic Nervous System - ANS ✔✔Carries information from your muscles and tissues to the
central nervous system. Controls sensations of pressure, pain, and temperature.
Autonomic Nervous System - ANS ✔✔Regulates the body's internal environment. Controls
glands, organs, etc.
Sympathetic - ANS ✔✔Part of the Autonomic Nervous System. Prepares your body for action by
quickening your heartbeat.
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Wilhelm Wundt - ANS ✔✔Set up the first psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany.
Structuralists - ANS ✔✔People that believe that consciousness is made up of basic elements
that are combined in different ways to produce different perceptions.
Functionalists - ANS ✔✔People who focus on how mental experiences are adaptive.
Psychodynamic Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that believes thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
stem from the interaction of innate drives, and society's restrictions on the expression of those
drives. (specifically, sexual and aggressive drives)
Behavioral Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that focuses on how people react to changes in
environmental stimuli.
Biological Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that focuses on how the physiological process might
produce a psychological phenomena.
Cognitive Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that explains behavior in terms of thoughts and
feelings.
Humanistic Approach - ANS ✔✔An approach that states a human's behaviors are determined by
a genetic code. They believe that people are "basically good".
Independent Variable - ANS ✔✔The variable in an experiment that causes a change in another
variable.
, Dependent Variable - ANS ✔✔The variable in an experiment that is the result of another
variable.
Correlational Coefficient - ANS ✔✔A _________ is a similarity between two things that
describes the strength of the relationship.
Sensory Neurons - ANS ✔✔Takes information from the body and transmits it to the brain.
Motor Neurons - ANS ✔✔Sends information from the brain to the body.
Serotonin - ANS ✔✔Controls arousal and sleep. Low levels of ______ usually indicate
depression.
Agonists - ANS ✔✔Drugs that mimic a particular nerotransmitter or block it's signal.
Peripheral Nervous System - ANS ✔✔Includes the sensory and motor neurons that connect the
brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.
Somatic Nervous System - ANS ✔✔Carries information from your muscles and tissues to the
central nervous system. Controls sensations of pressure, pain, and temperature.
Autonomic Nervous System - ANS ✔✔Regulates the body's internal environment. Controls
glands, organs, etc.
Sympathetic - ANS ✔✔Part of the Autonomic Nervous System. Prepares your body for action by
quickening your heartbeat.
