General Psychology

Chapter 10, 12 and 13

1. Cognitive psychologists focus on studying how: we acquire and process infomution to pin knowledge.

2. A person who has trouble maintaining homeostasis is most likely to have a problem with the-hypothalamus.

3. The hypothalamus is most critical for maintaining homeostasis.

4. If you are a sports fan and your team wins a big game. the pleasure you feel is likely the result of dopamine

5. According to Maslow's hierarchy, a person who is SW) uncomfortable in her surroundings might have problems concentrating because her need for _ has not been met. love and belonging

6. The part of the nervous system that controls the involuntary components of emotional responses is the: autonomic nervous system

7. When you are startled by a noise in the middle of the night. your heart begins racing. This increase in bean rate is due to the work of your: sympathetic nervous system

8. According to Hans Selye. the order of the stages in the general adaptation syndrome is: alarm reaction. adaptation stage. exhaustion stage

9. The general adaptation syndrome. as first described by I fans Sely el connects stress and disease through a series of stages.

10. In addition to cortisol, the adrenal gland releases in response to acute stress: epinephrine