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| The Law of effect formulated by Thorndike states that... |
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| ...results leading to satisfying results are likely to be repeated |
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| Psychologists who study____are concerned with the measurement of sensory thresholds. |
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| The DNA that contains the entire genetic code for a particular individual is in... |
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| A psychologist wants to determine whether the lighting levels affect test scores. DV is _____ and IV is ______ |
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| DV is the test score, IV is the brightness |
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| The theory of altruistic behavior that is evolutionarily adaptive is called... |
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| Chomsky contributed greatly to cognitive psychology through his accounts of... |
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| ...the process hat underlies language development |
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| How do you achieve extinction in an operant conditioning experiment? |
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| Eliminate the reinforcements |
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| Ken's blood time is A. She received heterozygous alleles for blood type from her parents |
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| Geneotype: Dominant Recessive |
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| This type of research is often done as a first step in a sequence of studies. |
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| Watson's experiments that involved "Little Albert" provided evidence of... |
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| A measurement is ____ if it properly measures what it intends to measure. |
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| A gene is said to be recessive when it produces its observable effects... |
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| ...only in the homozygous condition |
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| Which of the following is not one of the four factors that led to the field of modern cognitive psychology? |
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| Darwin's Origin of Species |
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| In a memory experiment where one group is given a memory aid and the other is not, both are asked to memorize words and recite them. What is the independent variable? |
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| Whether or not the subject was taught the memory aid. |
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| What is an inherited condition cause by a recessive gene? |
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| Which ancient Greek scholar is responsible for the notion of mind body dualism in which the mind communicates with the body but not vice versa? |
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| Sometimes researchers are force to create new ways to measure material which are referred to as... |
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| Genetic influence on a characteristic which comes from genes and environment is called... |
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| According to Galen, a choleric person has an overabundance of which bodily humor? |
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| The measure of central tendency obtained by using the score count in the middle of a distribution is.. |
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| Galton used to methods that would become very important to the studies of heritability: twin and... |
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| Which Greek scholar is responsible for hysteria? |
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| The statistical measure used to compare two means is the... |
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| Tyron's conclusion from his experiment with maze bright and maze dull rats was that intellegence... |
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| ...is largely genetically determined |
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| In his view of dualism, Descartes believed that any behavior common to both human humans and nonhuman animals... |
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| The psychological school of ____ reconstructed psychology's subject matter to observable actions of people and other animals |
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| Danish schizophrenia study found ____ parents of adopted children had high incidence of illness |
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| Dentist chair drill turned on no response applied to tooth pain experienced from then on flinches at drill... |
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| Classical conditioning: sound of drill is the conditioned stimulus |
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| Which of the following is not a measure of variability |
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| Which of the following statements regarding expression and emotion is Darwin most likely to have made? |
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| In all animal species, emotions evolve genetically. |
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| ____ is credited with founding the early movement in psychology known as functionalism? |
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| The most direct way to test a hypothesis about a cause-effect relationship is... |
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| Bonobos Vs. birds mating arrangements of bonobos were ____; those of sandpipers were_______ |
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| measures of the sensory ability that psychophysicists were interested in is called the.... |
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| Just Noticible Difference |
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| According to ethologists, species specific behaviors viewed as ___ activated by the sign stimuli are |
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| Measures of the central tendency and variability were both considered ____ stats |
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| Early movement in psychology embodied by "whole greater than the sum of the parts" is known as |
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| The reflex characterized by babies' curling toes when the bottom of the foot is stroked is known as the... |
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| Partially determined by an individual's environment.... |
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| The individual's phenotype [Aid: dark skin in the desert, light skin in Scandinavia] |
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| Galapagos study determined variation in body size is heritable according to environmental conditions. |
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| Environmental changes create favorable changes for certain genes |
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| "Arousal of emotion" is a summary of which theory? |
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| James' Peripheral Feedback Theory |
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| Which of the following is not a Gestalt grouping principle? |
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| Motion Parallax [On a road: how close signs whiz by; far BG scenery moves slower] |
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| Sleep pathology characterized by inability to breathe while sleeping is called... |
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| Miller determined size of short term memory, showed _____ |
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| Which structure is found in the middle ear? |
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| This brain structure is a relay station that receives signals from sensory organs, transmitting them to appropriate regions of the cortex |
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| The test where participants had pens in the mouths between their teeth... |
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| When a person in the Stage Four sleep, their EEG pattern will be full of ___ waves. |
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| Lateral geniculate nucleus of IGN is part of which brain structure? |
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| Motor structure located over the thalamus responsible for control of deliberate movements |
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