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Basic psych
Basic psych Cpt 1,2,3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
06/06/2012

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The scientific study focused on strengths and virtues that will help individuals and groups function more effectively
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Positive Psychology
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Applies psychological principles to work related issues
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Industrial /Organizational psychology
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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes
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psychology
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considers the relative roles of genetics and enviroment
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Nature-nurture question
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perspective emphasing self-actualization and individual growth
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Humanistic psychology
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Helps individuals with life crises and everyday problems
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counseling psychology
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studies human cognitive and behavior changes across the life spans
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Developmental psychology
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Early perspective attempting to measure the basic components of consciousness
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structuralism
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studies the social influences on individual thoughts and behavior
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social psychology
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treats individuals with psychology and emotional problems
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clinical psychology
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perspective focusing on observable behavior and not on mental processes
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behaviorism
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studies the organizations of thoughts and memories as well as problem solving
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cognitive psychology
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early perspective focusing on the functions of thoughts and behaviors
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functionalism
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educated guess or predicition about the relationship between 2 events
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hypothesis
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the probability that findings are not due to chance
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statistical significance
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a procedure that is in some respects like the experimental condition, but actually consititutes a control condition
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placebo
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the group to whom the researcher hopes to apply findings
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population
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the variable the experimenter measures
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dependent variable
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examines the casual relationship between 2 events, and involves random assignment to conditions the experiementer control of the independent variable
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experiment
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means of statically equating groups
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Random Assignment
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The group of participants in a particular study?
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Sample
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the variable that the experimenter controls or manipulates
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independent variable
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Examines the degree to which 2 events are related, but does not reveal cause and effect
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correlation study
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the specific way a variable is represented in a particular study
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operational defination
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in depth study of one individual
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case study
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Bundle of nerve fibers that connect the two halves of the brain
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Corpus Callosum
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Hypothalamus
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Regulates appetitive behaviors
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Researcher best known for the 'split brain' research
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Sperry
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The building block of the nervous system
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Neuron
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Area on the left side of the brain governing the comprehension of of spoken and written language
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Wernicke's area
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Area on the left side of the brain, governing the formation of words
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Broca's area
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. Relays sensory information to higher centers of the brain
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Thalamus
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Regulates fear, rage, and aggression
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Amygdala
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All of which we're aware at a given time
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Conscious
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Area on the left side of the brain governing the comprehension of of spoken and written language
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Wernicke's area
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Area on the left side of the brain, governing the formation of words
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Broca's area
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. Relays sensory information to higher centers of the brain
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Thalamus
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Regulates fear, rage, and aggression
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Amygdala
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All of which we're aware at a given time
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Conscious
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The junction or gap between two neurons, across which messages are carried
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Synapse
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The conveyers of neural messages between one neuron and the next
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Neurotransmitter
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Studies the relationship between the brain and thought Processes, drawing on a number of disciplines
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Cognitive neuroscience
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Mental material that is not conscious, but is easily accessible
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Subconscious
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Brain and spinal cord
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Central nervous system
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In Freud's view, the recalled content of the dream.
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Manifest content
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Mental that is inaccessible, at least for a long period time
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Unconscious
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That part of the nervous system except the central nervous system
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Peripheral nervous system
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. in Freud's view, the underlying meaning of a dream that is symbolized by what is recalled from the dream.
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Latent content
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The limitation of human attention that allows focus on only a limited part of experience at any one time.
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Selective attention
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A stage of sleep in which dreams generally occur and during which skeletal muscles are immobile.
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REM sleep
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Medualla
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Governs breathing, heart rate, coughing to restore breathing
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Controls skeletal or voluntary muscles
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Somatic nervous system
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Controls involuntary organs
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Autonomic nervous system
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. One theory of dreams that suggests they are an attempt to make sense of random neural firings.
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Activation synthesis
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Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to muscles in your hands by the ______nervous system
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peripheral
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caleb has just played a long, bruising football gamebut feels a little fatigue or discomfort. His lack of pain is most likely caused by the release of __________
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endophins
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Although phrenology incorrectly suggest that bumps on the skull revealed a person's character traits phrenology did succeed in focusing attention on
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the localization of function
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the part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs is called
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autonomic nervous system
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A synapse is an
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junction between a sending neuron and a recieveing neuron
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which brain structure recieves information from all the senses except smell
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Thalmus
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which region of your brainstem plays a role in arousing you to a state of alertness when someone nearby mentions your name
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reticular information
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in addition to coordinating voluntary movement, the _________enables nonverbal learning and memory
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cerebellum
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In addition to coordinating voluntary movement, the _________enables nonverbal learning and memory
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cerebellum
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a brain tumor caused extensive damage to Mr. Thomas's hypothalamus. It is most likely he may suffer the loss of ?
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sexual motivation
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neurosurgeons have severed the corpus callosum in human patients in order to reduce
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epileptic seizures
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concsiousness is
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awareness of our selves and our enviroment
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while reading a novel, caleb isn't easily distracted by the sounds of the tv or even by his brothers loud arguments. this best describes
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selective attention
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Rem sleep is called paradocical sleep because
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our nervous system is highly active why our voluntary muscles hardly move
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40 year old lance insists he never dreams, research suggest that he probably
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he would report a vivid drem id he were awaken during REM sleep
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Which of the following is bad advice for a person trying to overcome insomina
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drink a glass of wine 15 minutes before bedtime
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As EMily recalls her dream she was dancing with a tall, dark handsome gentleman when suddenly the music changed to rock music. According to freud Emily's account represents the _____content of her dream
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manifest
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which theory suggest that dreams are mental reponses to random burst of neural stimulation
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neural activation theory
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which theory emphasizes that dreams play a role in consolidating the day's experiences in our memories
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information processing theory
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in one study both hypnotized and unhypnottized subjects were told to throw acid in the researchers face in this experiment hypnotized people
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behave in the same fashion as unhyponized subjects
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which of the following represent the very first of three steps basic to all sensory systems
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recieving sensory stimulation
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sensation is to ______as perception is to __________
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detection, interpretation
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during a hearing test many sounds were presented at such a low level of intensity that that Mr. Ed could hardly detect them. these sounds below his?
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absolute threshold
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the process by which our sensory systems transform stimulus energies into neural impulses is called
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transduction
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which theory emphasizes that personal expectations and motivations influence the level of absolute thresholds
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a signal detection theory
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lonely anxious people at speed dating events respond with a ____threshold, and thus tend to be _____in reaching out to potiental dates
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low unselective
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experiments evaluating the impact of subliminal self-help recordings for improving memory indicate that they
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did not help more than a placebo
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visual perception of objects often change when the objects are viewed in different surroundings. This best illustrates
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context effects
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which brain structure recieves information from all the senses ecept smell
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thalmus
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which region of your brainstem plays a role in arousing you to a state of alertness when someone nearby mentions your name
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reticular formation
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in addition to coordinating voluntary movement to _____enables nonverbal memory and learning
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cerebellum
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which receptor cells most directly enable us to distinguish different wavelengths of light
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cones
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Statical reasonong can help us generalize correctly from
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sample to population
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centeral tendencyis to variations as mean is to
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standard deviation
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which measure of centeral tendency is used to calculate the average of school grades
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mean
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to Assess the influence of self esteem on interpersonal attraction, researches either insult or compliment students
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interpersonal attraction
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experimental study effects of anxiety on self esteen anxiety would be the ________variable
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independent
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emperial approach
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operational defination
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replication
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psychologist study animals because?
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similar process often underlie animal and human
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Psychologist personal values and goals can?
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bias their observation and interpretation
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by testing their predictions with the observational method of science psychologist are using
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emperical approach
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statement describing the exact procedures for measuring an anticipated experimental outcome is known as ?
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operation defination
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which techniques involve repeating the essence of eariler research study with different [articipants and in diffierent circumstances
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replication
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researcher would be most likelu to discover a positive correltion between

Example
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intellegience and academic success
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suppose people who watch violent tv are also particullary likely to behave aggressively. the relationship would not indicate that watching violence influence aggressive behavior
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association does not prove causation
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researcher use experiements rather than other reseearch methods in order to isolate
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cause from effect
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accurately isolate cause and effect, experimenters should use
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random assignment
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placebo
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hindsight bias
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exaggerated their tendency to have foreseen an outcome
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Rhonda insists that Dr. P theory of aggression be checked against observable evidence. She is demonstrating the scientific attitude of
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Skepticism
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Prof. D. suggest that because people are especially attracted to those who are good looking. Handsome menwill be more successful that average looking men getting a job professors predicition regarding employment is success example of
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hypothesis
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psychologist who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzee societies in the jungle are usu=ing research methods known as ?
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naturalistic observation
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to discover the extent in which economics status can be used to predict perferance researchers are most likely to use
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correlation measures
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