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| used to study people's inner sensations and mental images |
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| Used introspection as the basic research tool in order to study people's inner sensations and mental images |
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| william james was a prominant |
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| a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function-how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish |
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| Who was a student under William James and was the first woman to become the president of the American Psychological Association? |
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| potential for healthy growth |
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| Humanistic psychologists focused attention on the importance of people's |
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| behavior and mental processes |
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| Contemporary psychology is best defined as the science of |
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| Suggested that the mind at birth is a blank sheet upon which experience writes |
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| The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as |
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| Industrial/Organizational psychologist |
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| Dr. Lipka focuses on ways to improve employee job satisfaction and productivity. Dr. Lipka is most likely a(n) |
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| explores the links between brain and mind |
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| Developmental Psychologists |
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| Study our changing abilities from womb to tomb |
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| Experiment with how we perceive, think, and solve problems |
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| Personality Psychologists |
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| investigate our persistent traits |
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| explore how we view and affect one another |
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| Several weeks after a political election, voters often exaggerate their ability to have predicted the election outcome. This best illustrates |
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| Our tendency to believe we know more than we do illustrates |
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| Curiosity, Humility, Skepticism |
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| key attitudes of scientific inquiry |
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| A type of research is a representative, random sample of people asked to answer questions about their behaviors or attitudes |
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| the participants are representative of the population they are interested in studying |
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| In a survey, psychologists select a random sample of research participants in order to ensure that |
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| Psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzee societies in the jungle are using a research method known as |
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| What is a statistical measure of both the directiona dn the strength of a relationship between two variables? |
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| To represent graphically the correlaction between two variables, researchers often construct a |
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| the perseption of a relationship between two variables that does not exist |
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| Illusory correlation refers to |
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| What method is most helpful for revealing cause-effect relationships? |
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| An inert substance that may be administered instead of a drug to see if it produces any of the same effects as the drug is called a |
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| In a psychological experiment, the experimental factor that is manipulated by the investigator is called the |
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| The most frequently occuring score in a distribution of scores is the |
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| arithmetic average of all the scores |
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| The mean of a distribution of scores is the |
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| middle score in a distribution of scores |
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| The median of a distribution of scores is the |
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| The person most likely to suggest that the shape of a person's skull indicates the extent to which that individual is argumentative and aggressive would be a |
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| For you to experience the pain of a sprained ankle, _____ must first relay incoming pain messages from your ankle to your spinal cord. |
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| Neurons that function within the brain and spinal cord |
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| Some neurons enable you to grasp objects by relaying outgoing messages to the muscles in your arms and hands. These neurons are called |
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| braching extensions of neurons |
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| the extension of a neuron that carries messages away from the cell body |
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| dendrites to the cell body to the axon |
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| In transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal travels from the ______ of a single neuron. |
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| The speed at which a neural impulse travels is increased when the axon is encased by |
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| A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron is called the |
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| The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neutral impulse is called the |
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| more neurons to fire, and to fire more often |
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| A slap on the back is more painful than a pat on the back because a slap triggers |
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| a junction between a sending neuron and a receiving neuron |
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| The chemical messengers released into the spatial junctions between neurons are called |
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| reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron |
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| Jose has just played a long, bruising football game but feels little fatigue or discomfort. His lack of pain is most likely caused by the release of |
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| A drug that mimics the effects of a particular neurotransmitter or blocks its reuptake is called a(n) |
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| The two major divisions of the nervous system are the _____ and the _____ nervous systems. |
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| the brain and the spinal cord |
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| The central nervous system consists of |
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| Messages are transmitted from your spinal cord to muscles in your hands by the _______ nervous system |
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| The part of the peripheral nervous system that controls the glands and the muscles of the internal organs is called the |
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| sympathetic nervous system |
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| Which division of the autonomic nervous system arouses the body and mobilizes its energy in stressful situations? |
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| Denied a Ph.D. degree from Harvard because of sexual orientation? |
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Psychological
Social-cultural |
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| Psychology's three main levels of analysis |
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| Dr. Frye conducts research investigations on memory, with the intent of contributing to what is known about human memory processes. Dr. Frye conducts |
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| Naturalistic observations are conducted in order to |
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| negative .95; closests to 1 |
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Which of the following correlation coefficients indicates the strongest relationship between variables?
positive .05
negative .25
positive .75
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