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| Who is the father of psychology |
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| Which School of psychology is associated with Maslow and Rogers |
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| What School of psychology is associated with Watson and Skinner |
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| The four goals of psychology are |
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| to explain, describe, predict and control behavior |
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| The three major issues in psy are |
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nature vs. nurture, stability vs change
rationality vs. irrationality |
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| Freud was the 1st modern psychologist to suggest |
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| every personality has a n unconscious part |
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| Milgram's study of obedience showed that Aamericans |
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| are obedient even when required to inflict pain on another person. |
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| objects that satisfy or reduce a basic need are called |
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| According to Freud, what are the three parts of the personality |
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| How do positive and negative reinforcement compare |
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| they both cause a behavior to continue |
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| The interaction between a neurotrasmitter and receptor site is like |
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| what part of the brain allows for higher intellectual functioning |
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| the amygdala and hippocampus comprise the |
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| This part of the brain divides the left and right hemispheres |
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| Which of the following is most closely related to blood sugar control |
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| The concept of imitation and social learning is associated with |
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| A psychologist studies the play behavior of third grade children by watching groups during recess at school. Which research strategy is being used? |
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| When an animal responds only to stimuli associated with reinforcement this is |
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| participants in an experiment who are exposed to the independent variable are called the _____--group |
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| The variable that the experimenter manipulates is called the |
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| In classical conditioning the unconditioned stimulis elicits (causes) |
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| The unconditioned response |
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| a persistent fear of a particular object or situation is called a |
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| switching from frantic action and deep despair is what mental illness |
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| A patients expression of anything that comes to mind during a therapy session is called |
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| schizophrenia tends to develop in |
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| adolesence and early adulthood |
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| This sleep disorder has a person falling directly into REM sleep |
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| this is when you can influence the course of your dreams |
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| people are highly suggestible in this state of altered consciousness |
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| Freud believed that dreams |
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| contain clues to unconscious thoughts and desires |
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| In what stage of dreaming do vivid dreams occur |
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| Smell receptors send messages to the brain using the ______________nerve |
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| light enters the eye through |
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| sweet, salty, bitter, sour |
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| wavelength is to loudness |
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| finding the cold water in a swimming pool warmer after you have been in it for a while is called |
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| in piaget's state of concrete operational intelligence the child understands |
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| during what stage do children acquire object perminance |
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| this theorist said that children who are securely attached develop an attitude of basic trust |
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| Erikson says the main psychological challanges in adolescence, youngadult hood and middle age are |
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| idenity formation, intimacy, generativity |
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| piaget says the ability to think logically about abstract propositions occurs in which state of development occurs in which stage |
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| The three parts of emotions are |
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1. physiological (physical) reactions
behavioral expressions
conscious feelings |
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| Which theory of emotion says we have a body response and emotional feeling at the same time |
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| Schachters two factor theory says |
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| physical arousal and cognitive label |
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| Motivation is best described as a state that |
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| energizes an organism to act |
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| What is a difference between a drive and a need |
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| needs are a physiological states and drives are psychological states |
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| What does William James say motivates people> |
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| the tendency to maintain a steady internal state - balance |
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