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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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| 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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| considers the relative roles of genetics and enviroment |
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| perspective emphasing self-actualization and individual growth |
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| Helps individuals with life crises and everyday problems |
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| studies human cognitive and behavior changes across the life spans |
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| Early perspective attempting to measure the basic components of consciousness |
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| studies the social influences on individual thoughts and behavior |
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| treats individuals with psychology and emotional problems |
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| perspective focusing on observable behavior and not on mental processes |
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| studies the organizations of thoughts and memories as well as problem solving |
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| early perspective focusing on the functions of thoughts and behaviors |
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| educated guess or predicition about the relationship between 2 events |
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| the probability that findings are not due to chance |
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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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| the group to whom the researcher hopes to apply findings |
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| the variable the experimenter measures |
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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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| means of statically equating groups |
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| The group of participants in a particular study? |
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| the variable that the experimenter controls or manipulates |
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| Examines the degree to which 2 events are related, but does not reveal cause and effect |
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| the specific way a variable is represented in a particular study |
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| in depth study of one individual |
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| Bundle of nerve fibers that connect the two halves of the brain |
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| Regulates appetitive behaviors |
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| Researcher best known for the 'split brain' research |
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| The building block of the nervous system |
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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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| Area on the left side of the brain, governing the formation of words |
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| . Relays sensory information to higher centers of the brain |
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| Regulates fear, rage, and aggression |
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| All of which we're aware at a given time |
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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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| Area on the left side of the brain, governing the formation of words |
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| . Relays sensory information to higher centers of the brain |
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| Regulates fear, rage, and aggression |
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| All of which we're aware at a given time |
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| The junction or gap between two neurons, across which messages are carried |
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| The conveyers of neural messages between one neuron and the next |
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| Studies the relationship between the brain and thought Processes, drawing on a number of disciplines |
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| Mental material that is not conscious, but is easily accessible |
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| In Freud's view, the recalled content of the dream. |
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| Mental that is inaccessible, at least for a long period time |
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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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| The limitation of human attention that allows focus on only a limited part of experience at any one time. |
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| A stage of sleep in which dreams generally occur and during which skeletal muscles are immobile. |
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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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| Controls involuntary organs |
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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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| Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to muscles in your hands by the ______nervous system |
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| in addition to coordinating voluntary movement, the _________enables nonverbal learning and memory |
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| In addition to coordinating voluntary movement, the _________enables nonverbal learning and memory |
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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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| neurosurgeons have severed the corpus callosum in human patients in order to reduce |
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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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| 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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| which theory suggest that dreams are mental reponses to random burst of neural stimulation |
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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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| the process by which our sensory systems transform stimulus energies into neural impulses is called |
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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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| 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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| which brain structure recieves information from all the senses ecept smell |
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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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| in addition to coordinating voluntary movement to _____enables nonverbal memory and learning |
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| which receptor cells most directly enable us to distinguish different wavelengths of light |
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| Statical reasonong can help us generalize correctly from |
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| centeral tendencyis to variations as mean is to |
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| which measure of centeral tendency is used to calculate the average of school grades |
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| to Assess the influence of self esteem on interpersonal attraction, researches either insult or compliment students |
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| experimental study effects of anxiety on self esteen anxiety would be the ________variable |
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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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| statement describing the exact procedures for measuring an anticipated experimental outcome is known as ? |
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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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researcher would be most likelu to discover a positive correltion between
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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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| accurately isolate cause and effect, experimenters should use |
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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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| 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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| psychologist who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzee societies in the jungle are usu=ing research methods known as ? |
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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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