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| What is psychology? | show 🗑
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| show | To describe, predict, and explain behavior
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| show | Emphasizes the mental processes involved in Knowing: how we direct our attention, how we perceive, how we remember, and how we think and solve problems
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| show | A focus on the body, especially the brain and nervous system
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| show | Emphasizes the scientific study of observable behavioral responses and their environmental determinants
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| show | Emphasizes unconscious thought, the conflict between biological instincts and society's demands, and early family experiences.
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| The theoretical approach that focuses on overt behavior is _________ | show 🗑
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| show | Explain behavior
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| Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and John Watson are key figures in the _______ approach. | show 🗑
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| show | Describe
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| show | A method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested.
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| What is a hypothesis? | show 🗑
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| Advantages of surveys | show 🗑
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| Disadvantages of surveys | show 🗑
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| Advantages of correlational studies | show 🗑
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| show | Two different events might not be related, wrong information, etc.
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| Advantages of Experiments | show 🗑
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| Disadvantages of experiments | show 🗑
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| Advantages of observations | show 🗑
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| show | The person you are observing might know that you are observing them and might act different because of it
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| show | The manipulated experimental factor in an experiment
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| show | A factor that can change in an experiment in response to changes in the independent variable
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| Experimental groups | show 🗑
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| Control groups | show 🗑
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| show | The subset of the population chosen by the investigator for study
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| Placebo | show 🗑
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| show | A sample that gives every member of the population an equal chance of being selected
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| What research method can show a cause and effect relationship? | show 🗑
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| show | Independent variable
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| Dishonesty on the part of the subject is a possible disadvantage of the ________method | show 🗑
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| show | Positive correlation
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| show | Biological
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| She must have had a very difficult childhood, with a remote and distant father and a domineering mother. | show 🗑
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| show | Behavioral
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| Aren't you being a little anal? | show 🗑
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| My girlfriend dumped me: I will probably never find anyone else. | show 🗑
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| Give her a dollar for every A on her report card and she will shape up. | show 🗑
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| show | Biological
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| I am worthless; I can't even find a decent job; I don't know if I even want to keep trying. | show 🗑
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| show | Psychodynamic
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| show | Cognitive
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| show | Biological
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| If you would spank him once in a while, he would soon learn what his limits are | show 🗑
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| She chose that lifestyle | show 🗑
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| show | Includes a nucleus, cell body, axon, dendrites, and uses a nerve impulse
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| show | The nucleus/cell body sends a nerve impluse down the axon and eventually makes a chemical transmission
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| Occipital Lobe | show 🗑
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| show | The portion of the cerebral cortex just above the ears that is involved in hearing, language processing, and memory
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| show | The part of the cerebral cortex just behind the forehead that is involved in the control of voluntary muscles, intelligence, and personality
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| show | Area of the cerebral cortex at the top of the head that is involved in registering spatial location, attention, and motor control
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| show | Controls right side movements, speech, and grammar
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| show | Controls left side movements and emotions
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| Corpus callosum | show 🗑
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| show | The lowest portion of the brain, consisting of the medulla, cerebellum, and pons
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| Midbrain | show 🗑
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| show | The highest level of the brain. Key structures in the forebrain are the limbic system, thalamus, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, and cerebral cortex
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| What did psychologists learn from the case study of Phineas Gage? | show 🗑
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| The lobe of the brain that governs movement of the voluntary muscles is the _____ | show 🗑
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| Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that send messages across the ___________ to the next neuron | show 🗑
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| The language centers are primarily in the ______ lobe of the brain | show 🗑
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| show | Occipital
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| show | Development refers to the pattern of continuity and change in human capabilities that occurs throughout the course of life. Researches who study development are intrigued by its universal characteristics and by its individual variations
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| What are some of the physical changes that occur in adolescence? | show 🗑
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| What are some of the cognitive changes that occur in late adulthood? | show 🗑
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| What is the highest level of cognitive development, according to Piaget? | show 🗑
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| What stage of social emotional development did Eriksen say that adolescents experience? | show 🗑
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| show | Sensorimotor
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| Girls enter into puberty about _________ before boys | show 🗑
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| A concept or framework for organizing information is a ____________ according to Piaget | show 🗑
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| ______ is a landmark achievement of the sensorimotor stage of development. | show 🗑
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| show | Middle adulthood
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| show | Infancy
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| show | How do we take a new phenomina and put that into an already existing schema
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| Accommidation | show 🗑
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| show | Infants construct an understanding of the world by coordinating sensory experiences with motor actions
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| show | Thought becomes more symbolic than in the sensorimotor stage but the child cannot yet perform operations
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| Concrete operational stage | show 🗑
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| show | Thinking becomes more abstract, idealistic, and logical
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| show | Ages 0-1 1/2
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| Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt | show 🗑
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| Initiative vs. Guilt | show 🗑
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| Industry vs. Inferiority | show 🗑
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| Identity vs. Identity confusion | show 🗑
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| show | Ages 20-39
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| show | Ages 40-59
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| show | Ages 60-death
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