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CSS Psychology Foundations of Psychology Flashcards
51 question-and-answer cards covering Foundations of Psychology as it is examined in CSS Psychology. 24 of them are printed below, taken from across the deck — no signup, no paywall on the preview.
24 sample cards from the Foundations of Psychology deck
Sampled from the end of the deck, so these are different cards from the ones shown on the syllabus page.
What is the basic structural and functional unit of the nervous system?
The neuron (nerve cell).
What are the three main parts of a neuron?
The dendrites (receive signals), the cell body/soma (contains the nucleus), and the axon (transmits signals away).
What is the function of dendrites?
To receive incoming messages (signals) from other neurons and carry them toward the cell body.
What is the function of the axon?
To carry the nerve impulse away from the cell body toward other neurons, muscles, or glands.
What is the myelin sheath and its function?
A fatty insulating layer covering the axon that speeds up the transmission of the neural impulse.
Name the three functional types of neurons.
Sensory (afferent) neurons, motor (efferent) neurons, and interneurons (association neurons).
What is a synapse?
The tiny gap (junction) between two neurons across which a nerve impulse is transmitted via neurotransmitters.
What are neurotransmitters?
Chemical messengers released at the synapse that carry signals from one neuron to another across the synaptic gap.
What is the all-or-none principle (law) of neural firing?
A neuron either fires a full-strength action potential or does not fire at all; the strength of the stimulus does not change the size of the impulse.
What is an action potential?
A brief electrical impulse that travels down the axon when a neuron fires, caused by the movement of charged ions across the cell membrane.
What are the three major parts of the brain?
The hindbrain, the midbrain, and the forebrain.
What are the four lobes of the cerebral cortex and one function of each?
Frontal (reasoning/movement), parietal (touch/spatial sense), temporal (hearing), and occipital (vision).
What is the function of the cerebellum?
It coordinates voluntary movement, balance, posture, and muscle coordination.
What is the function of the hypothalamus?
It regulates basic drives such as hunger, thirst, body temperature, and sleep, and controls the endocrine system via the pituitary gland.
What is the role of the spinal cord?
It connects the brain to the rest of the body, carries sensory and motor signals, and controls reflex actions.
What are the two main divisions of the Peripheral Nervous System?
The somatic nervous system and the autonomic nervous system.
What does the somatic nervous system control?
It controls voluntary movements of skeletal muscles and transmits sensory information to the CNS.
What are the two branches of the autonomic nervous system and their roles?
The sympathetic branch (arouses the body for 'fight or flight') and the parasympathetic branch (calms the body and conserves energy).
What is the endocrine system?
A network of glands that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream to regulate body functions.
Why is the pituitary gland called the 'master gland'?
Because its hormones control and regulate the activity of many other endocrine glands in the body.
What hormone does the adrenal gland release during stress, and what is its effect?
Adrenaline (epinephrine), which prepares the body for emergency 'fight or flight' by raising heart rate and energy.
What is the function of the thyroid gland?
It secretes thyroxine, which regulates the body's metabolism, growth, and energy levels.
What is the experimental method, and what are its two key variables?
A research method that establishes cause-and-effect by manipulating an independent variable and measuring its effect on a dependent variable while controlling other factors.
Distinguish naturalistic observation from the survey method.
Naturalistic observation records behavior as it occurs in its natural setting without interference, whereas the survey method gathers self-reported data from many people using questionnaires or interviews.
What this deck covers
The Foundations of Psychology deck follows the CSS Psychology Foundations of Psychology syllabus — 3 chapters and 15 topics — so questions land on material that is genuinely examinable rather than trivia around it. That works out to roughly 17.0 cards per chapter.
Answers are written to be recallable, not just readable — averaging about 107 characters, which is long enough to carry the reasoning and short enough to say out loud.
A deck like this earns its keep on the second and third pass. Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then use the cards to find the specific facts that have not stuck.
Foundations of Psychology flashcards FAQ
How many Foundations of Psychology flashcards are in this CSS Psychology deck?
51 cards. This page previews 24 of them, sampled evenly across the deck so you can judge the difficulty before installing anything.
Are these CSS Psychology flashcards free?
Yes. The preview here is free to read with no signup, and the full 51-card deck is free inside the Examius app.
What do the Foundations of Psychology cards cover?
They follow the CSS Psychology Foundations of Psychology syllabus — 3 chapters and 15 topics — so the questions track what is actually examinable.
How should I use these flashcards?
Read the syllabus first so you know the shape of the subject, then drill the deck. Examius schedules each card with spaced repetition, so cards you keep missing come back sooner and ones you know drift further apart.