PSY 1000 Exam 2 Questions and All
Correct Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Which neural center/brain part in the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage
including episodic memories? - Answer hippocampus
Released by the adrenal glands during stress, this hormone can among many things contribute
to heightened vigilance during danger, decrease working memory, and sometimes even cause
obesity. - Answer cortisol
Vygotsky method wherein children are pushed to go just beyond what they are competent and
capable of doing. - Answer scaffolding
The term "gender ________" refers to the feeling or sense of being either male or female (or
also somewhere on the gender continuum). - Answer identity
Someone with an external locus of control may also acquire or learn this belief that they are
powerless to do anything about a situation which may also lead to depression. - Answer
learned helplessness
The Hypothalamic- Pituitary-Adrenal System (HPA) oversees the sympathetic nervous system
and also - Answer activates the immune system.
activates the immune system. - Answer prototype
A long-term or continuous state of nervous arousal where an individual perceives that demands
are greater than the ability to meet them. - Answer chronic stress
The tendency to believe that the event you just experienced was predictable, even though it
wasn't. - Answer highsight bias
Motivation is defined by the study guide and class slides as - Answer a need or desire that
energizes behavior and directs it toward a goal.
According to the class slides on Thinking and Intelligence, this is a specific type of cognition that
requires one to go beyond information and/or to manipulate information to reach a goal. -
Answer thinking
, According to the class slides and discussion, the three basic components of emotion are: -
Answer a subjective or inner experience, a physiological component, and a behavioral
expression.
With respect to implicit memory, these two brain structures are primarily involved in the
storage of both procedural memories and conditioned responses - Answer cerebellum; basal
ganglia
Very often, the majority of student takeaways at the end of each class refer things learned or
just mentioned in the last few minutes of class. This represents well this concept of memory.
This is also represented when one remembers the last item of a list. - Answer recency effect
From the late teens into the mid-20s, individuals are in a transitional phase that developmental
psychologists call ____________ adulthood. - Answer emerging
The tendency for new and misleading information obtained after an incident to distort one's
memory of it is called - Answer misinformation effect
The part of your brain that can send both appetite-stimulating hormones and later after eating,
appetite- suppressing hormones. - Answer hypothalamus
According to slides on thinking and intelligence, when combined, two of Gardner's "multiple
intelligence" concepts--intra-personal and inter-personal--can form another kind of intelligence
in which one has the ability to understand your emotions and others, show empathy, and to
understand social relationships and cues. - Answer emotional intelligence
According to the book and slides, when this is activated in our minds, we automatically make
assumptions about the person, object, or situation. - Answer schema
_________ refers to the persistence of learning over time, through the storage and retrieval of
information and skills. - Answer Memory
Response to perceived threats or challenges resulting from stimuli or events that cause strain
best describes or defines - Answer stress.
Stimuli that cause physiological, psychological, and emotional reactions at any time. - Answer
stressors
Micro-expressions are very brief facial expressions usually lasting between 1/15 and 1/25 of a
second that often display a concealed emotion that can be the product of suppression or -
Answer repression
Correct Answers 2025-2026 Updated.
Which neural center/brain part in the limbic system helps process explicit memories for storage
including episodic memories? - Answer hippocampus
Released by the adrenal glands during stress, this hormone can among many things contribute
to heightened vigilance during danger, decrease working memory, and sometimes even cause
obesity. - Answer cortisol
Vygotsky method wherein children are pushed to go just beyond what they are competent and
capable of doing. - Answer scaffolding
The term "gender ________" refers to the feeling or sense of being either male or female (or
also somewhere on the gender continuum). - Answer identity
Someone with an external locus of control may also acquire or learn this belief that they are
powerless to do anything about a situation which may also lead to depression. - Answer
learned helplessness
The Hypothalamic- Pituitary-Adrenal System (HPA) oversees the sympathetic nervous system
and also - Answer activates the immune system.
activates the immune system. - Answer prototype
A long-term or continuous state of nervous arousal where an individual perceives that demands
are greater than the ability to meet them. - Answer chronic stress
The tendency to believe that the event you just experienced was predictable, even though it
wasn't. - Answer highsight bias
Motivation is defined by the study guide and class slides as - Answer a need or desire that
energizes behavior and directs it toward a goal.
According to the class slides on Thinking and Intelligence, this is a specific type of cognition that
requires one to go beyond information and/or to manipulate information to reach a goal. -
Answer thinking
, According to the class slides and discussion, the three basic components of emotion are: -
Answer a subjective or inner experience, a physiological component, and a behavioral
expression.
With respect to implicit memory, these two brain structures are primarily involved in the
storage of both procedural memories and conditioned responses - Answer cerebellum; basal
ganglia
Very often, the majority of student takeaways at the end of each class refer things learned or
just mentioned in the last few minutes of class. This represents well this concept of memory.
This is also represented when one remembers the last item of a list. - Answer recency effect
From the late teens into the mid-20s, individuals are in a transitional phase that developmental
psychologists call ____________ adulthood. - Answer emerging
The tendency for new and misleading information obtained after an incident to distort one's
memory of it is called - Answer misinformation effect
The part of your brain that can send both appetite-stimulating hormones and later after eating,
appetite- suppressing hormones. - Answer hypothalamus
According to slides on thinking and intelligence, when combined, two of Gardner's "multiple
intelligence" concepts--intra-personal and inter-personal--can form another kind of intelligence
in which one has the ability to understand your emotions and others, show empathy, and to
understand social relationships and cues. - Answer emotional intelligence
According to the book and slides, when this is activated in our minds, we automatically make
assumptions about the person, object, or situation. - Answer schema
_________ refers to the persistence of learning over time, through the storage and retrieval of
information and skills. - Answer Memory
Response to perceived threats or challenges resulting from stimuli or events that cause strain
best describes or defines - Answer stress.
Stimuli that cause physiological, psychological, and emotional reactions at any time. - Answer
stressors
Micro-expressions are very brief facial expressions usually lasting between 1/15 and 1/25 of a
second that often display a concealed emotion that can be the product of suppression or -
Answer repression
