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Psychology

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The process by which activities are started directed and continued so that physical or psychological needs or wants are met   Motivation  
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Extrinsic is defined as a pursue for   External reward  
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Type of motivation in which a person performs an action because the act itself is rewarding or satisfying in some internal manner   Intrinsic Motivation  
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Which statement about motivation is true   Motivation energizes and directs behavior  
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The biologically determined and innate patterns of behavior that exist in both people and animals   Instincts  
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Psychological tension and physical arousal when there is need that motivates organism to act in order to fulfill need and reduce the tension   Drive  
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The tendency of the body to maintain a steady state   Homeostasis  
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Involve survival needs of the body such as hunger and thirst   Primary drives  
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What happens each tie a behavior results in drive reduction   Tension is reduced  
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The need for ____ involves a strong desire to succeed in attaining goals   Achievement  
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Need for achievement refer to as   nAch  
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In AT people are said to have an ___ level of tension   Optimal  
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The scientific study of how a person's behavior, thoughts, and feelings influence and are influenced by social groups   Social Psychology  
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Solomon Ashe (Main body of question)   Conformity  
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Occurs when people place more importance on maintaining group cohesiveness than on assessing the facts of the problem with which group is concerned   Groupthink  
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All of the following are causes for groupthink except   Openness to differing opinions  
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Changing one's behavior as a result of other people directing or asking for the change   Compliance  
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In what way is compliance different from conformity   Compliance is a response to a direct request, whereas conformity is a response to a indirect social pressure  
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Asking for a small commitment, and after gaining compliance, asking for a bigger commitment   Foot-in-the-door technique  
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Story (small commitment then bigger commitment)   Foot-in-the-door technique  
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Asking for a large commitment and then, after being refused, asking for a smaller commitment   Door-in-the-face technique  
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Story (large commitment then smaller commitment)   Door-in-the-face technique  
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Getting a commitment from a person and then raising the cost of that commitment (car sales person)   Low-ball technique  
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What's an important finding of Milgram's research   People will easily obey an authority figure and do harm to others  
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100 individuals replicate Milgram's study, how are those 100 people likely to respond   The majority would administer 450 volts as instructed  
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A tendency to respond positively or negatively toward a certain person, object, idea, or situation   Attitude  
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Which of the following is NOT one of the three major components of attitudes   Goals  
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Attitude formation is the result of a number of influences what they have in common is that they are all form of   Learning  
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The process in which one person tries to change the belief, opinion, position, or course of action of another person through argument, pleading, or explanation   Persuasion  
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What is the relationship between expertise and persuasion   Greater expertise leads to great persuasion  
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The unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave   Personality  
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Freud proposed that his patients disorders resulted most often from psychological conflicts related to   Sex  
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Believed ___ was important factor in human behavior and personality   unconscious mind  
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People have compared mind to an iceberg if that were the case, and you were on the ship what part of the mind would you see above the water   Ego=Iceberg  
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Harry Potter Question   Ego  
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The job of the ___ is ____, ____   Ego, ID, Superego  
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Moral of personality is   Superego  
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Skinner and Watson believed that personality is the result of   Classical and operate conditioning and observational learning  
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What theory of personality was a direct question against the psyche analytical perspective   Humanistic Perspective  
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What do Maslow and Rodgers theories have in common   They believed each human being is free to choose his or her own destiny  
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According to Rodgers anxiety and neurotic behaviors occur when   There is a mismatch in the real self and the ideal self  
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Rodgers emphasized accepting people for who they are not for what you would like them to be   Unconditioned Positive Regard  
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Rodgers believed people question themselves and experienced negative effects on self concepts when they receive   Conditioned Positive Regard  
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What do humanistic and psyche analytical theories have in common   They are both difficult to test  
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What is a criticism that one might make about the humanistic perspective   It paints picture of humanity ignoring negative aspects of human nature  
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A consistent, enduring way of feeling or behaving   Trait  
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Gordon Allport and Reymond Cattell were both prominent __ theorists   Trait  
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