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Abraham Maslow wanted humanistic psychology to be a new way of perceiving and thinking about the individual's capacity, freedom, and potential for growth.   show
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There is no special program for overcoming procrastination: just get off your duff and get to work.   show
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The brain follows a number of perceptual rules to make sense out of the mass of visual stimuli it receives.   show
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If it were not for perceptual constancies, the world would seem ever-changing and chaotic.   show
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Illusions are interesting because they remind us that perception is an active process.   show
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Horses at the track, real motion; movie replay of the race, apparent motion.   show
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Human beings are always in one of two distinct states: awake and conscious or asleep and unconscious.   show
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Exposure to bright light is a fast way to reset our biological clocks.   show
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Researchers study sleep by measuring brain waves.   show
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As with everything else in his theories, Freud's explanation of dreams has a sexual twist.   show
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Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior as a result of experience.   show
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Ivan Pavlov's famous explanation of learning was so persuasive that no other theory has challenged it since.   show
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Once conditioning has taken place, generalization may cause similar stimuli to elicit the response, but discrimination should work to establish control by the specified stimuli.   show
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The information processing theory says classical conditioning happens when a new stimulus replaces an old one through association.   show
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If you are like most people, the sound of the dentist's drill has become an unconditioned stimulus.   show
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Classical conditioning concerns involuntary (reflex) behavior while operant conditioning concerns voluntary behavior.   show
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If you want effective learning, you must use primary reinforcers instead of secondary reinforcers.   show
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Observational learning theory showed that there is a difference between learning a behavior and performing that behavior.   show
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The difference between observational learning and operant conditioning is that the former does not depend on external reinforcement.   show
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