COUN 506 EXAM 1 STUDY GUIDE 2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ asylums. Answer: began as peaceful places... turned negative
◉ physical explanations of behavior. Answer: opioids and other
medications alter mood
◉ phineas gage. Answer: railroad worker who survived a severe
brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior;
case played a role in the development of the understanding of the
localization of brain function
◉ charles whitman. Answer: Killed 13 people. His autopsy showed a
brain tumour.
◉ neuroimaging. Answer: mri, fmri, pet, tpe
◉ post stroke shows.... Answer: depression or mania depending on
the hemisphere
◉ gene x environment. Answer: brain structure and function
, ◉ diathesis. Answer: risk factor (not sufficient on its own to cause
disorder)
◉ stress. Answer: response to the here and now (not sufficient on its
own to cause disorder)
◉ freud. Answer: role of the unconscious, "talking cure", repressed
desires
◉ behavioral perspective. Answer: observable behavior, anxiety
disorders
classical fear conditioning
◉ classical fear conditioning. Answer: The learning process by
which an organism passively associates two stimuli - a neutral
stimulus and one that evokes a reflexive response
◉ classical fear conditioning in anxiety disorders. Answer: stimulus
generalization, enhanced conditionability
◉ 2 stage learning. Answer: classical conditioning and instrumental
conditioning (avoid contact with anxiety inducing thing)
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
◉ asylums. Answer: began as peaceful places... turned negative
◉ physical explanations of behavior. Answer: opioids and other
medications alter mood
◉ phineas gage. Answer: railroad worker who survived a severe
brain injury that dramatically changed his personality and behavior;
case played a role in the development of the understanding of the
localization of brain function
◉ charles whitman. Answer: Killed 13 people. His autopsy showed a
brain tumour.
◉ neuroimaging. Answer: mri, fmri, pet, tpe
◉ post stroke shows.... Answer: depression or mania depending on
the hemisphere
◉ gene x environment. Answer: brain structure and function
, ◉ diathesis. Answer: risk factor (not sufficient on its own to cause
disorder)
◉ stress. Answer: response to the here and now (not sufficient on its
own to cause disorder)
◉ freud. Answer: role of the unconscious, "talking cure", repressed
desires
◉ behavioral perspective. Answer: observable behavior, anxiety
disorders
classical fear conditioning
◉ classical fear conditioning. Answer: The learning process by
which an organism passively associates two stimuli - a neutral
stimulus and one that evokes a reflexive response
◉ classical fear conditioning in anxiety disorders. Answer: stimulus
generalization, enhanced conditionability
◉ 2 stage learning. Answer: classical conditioning and instrumental
conditioning (avoid contact with anxiety inducing thing)
