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| The goals of psychology are to explain, describe, predict, and control behavior. | show 🗑
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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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| It is best to pick one of the general approaches to psychology and organize your thinking and work around it exclusively. | show 🗑
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| There has been ethnic discrimination in psychology, but at least women have always been equally represented. | show 🗑
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| Modern scientific psychology began with Wilhelm Wundt's attempt to accurately measure the conscious elements of the mind. | show 🗑
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| A threshold is a point above which we are aware of a stimulus. | show 🗑
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| Illusions are interesting because they remind us that perception is an active process. | show 🗑
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| A perceptual set is a kind of stubbornness that makes subjects stick to the first answer they give even if they realize they were wrong. | show 🗑
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| One adjustment problem faced by humans is that the circadian rhythm of our biological clocks is set closer to 25 hours than to 24. | show 🗑
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| Researchers study sleep by measuring brain waves. | show 🗑
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| Research on sleep deprivation and performance proves that the "repair theory" of sleep is correct. | 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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| The key to Pavlov's experiment was finding a reward that would make the dog salivate. | 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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| Bluejays avoid eating monarch butterflies because of taste-aversion learning. | show 🗑
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| Automobile ads often include a gorgeous model in a low-cut evening gown because women typically make the decision about buying a car. | 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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| The goal of systematic desensitization is to uncondition conditioned stimuli and make them neutral again. | show 🗑
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| Classical conditioning concerns involuntary (reflex) behavior while operant conditioning concerns voluntary behavior. | show 🗑
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| The key to successful operant conditioning is making consequences contingent on behavior. | show 🗑
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| Positive reinforcement makes behavior more likely to occur again; negative reinforcement makes it less likely to occur again. | show 🗑
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| If you want effective learning, you must use primary reinforcers instead of secondary reinforcers. | 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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| A good example of observational learning was when Sultan piled up several boxes so he could reach the banana. | show 🗑
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