Psychology Midterm Exam Study Guide
The right side of the brain control movement on which side of the body? -
left side
What happens to individuals with abnormal amounts of dopamine? -
schizophrenia
Psychological tests that appear in popular magazines are accurate? -
false
Kate is four years old is impulsive and never plans ahead. It would be most appropriate to assume that?
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her frontal lobe is not yet fully developed
Suzy was always an extremely polite and considerate person. Since suffering from a stroke, she has
begun to curse whenever she is upset and uses derogatory terms to describe her coworkers. The stroke
has probably damaged her? -
frontal lobe
What is the difference between a counselor and a clinician ? -
counselor treats; clinician prescribes
What do Neurotransmitters do? -
muscle movement,moods, and anxiety
What is the synapse? -
space between one neuron and another
The neuron receives messages from other neurons through its? -
dendrites
The two brain hemispheres are connected by the? -
corpus collosum
Brain cells have the ability to regenerate. -
true
The primary job of most brain cells is what ? -
sends and receive messages
The key to the transmission of messages in the nervous system is a space called the? -
synaptic gap
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