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Exploring Psychology, Myers 8th ed Module 1

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show He established the first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig, Germany.  
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show The pioneering memory researcher and the first woman to be the president of the American Psychological Association.  
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Who is Margret Flo Washburn?   show
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What is behaviorism?   show
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What is humanistic psychology?   show
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What is cognitive neuroscience?   show
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What is psychology?   show
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show Working with Rayner, Watson championed psychology as the science of behavior. Together, they demonstrated conditioned responses on a baby who became famous as “Little Albert.”  
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Who is B. F. Skinner?   show
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What is levels of analysis?   show
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show an integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and social-cultural levels of analysis.  
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show Neuroscience  
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show Evolutionary  
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show Psychodynamic  
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Behavioral   show
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show How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information  
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show Social-cultural  
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What is behaviorism?   show
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What is humanistic psychology   show
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show the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including perception, thinking, memory, and language)  
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What is psychology?   show
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show the longstanding controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to the development of psychological traits and behaviors. Today’s science sees traits and behaviors arising from the interaction of nature and nurture.  
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What is levels of analysis?   show
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What is biophychosocial approach?   show
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show pure science that aims to increase the scientific knowledge base.  
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What is counseling psychology?   show
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show a branch of medicine dealing with psychological disorders; practiced by physicians who sometimes provide medical ( drug ) treatments as well as psychological therapy  
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What is SQ3R?   show
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show established the 1st psychology laboratory at the University if Leipzig, Germany  
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show famed personality theorist and therapist who's controversial ideas have influenced many peoples self understanding  
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show legendary teacher-writer who mentored Mary Whiton Calkins  
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show became a pioneering memory researcher and the first woman to be the president of the American Psychological Association  
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show The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D, synthesized animal behavior research in The Animal Mind  
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show Together the demonstrated conditioned responses on a baby who became famous as "Little Albert"  
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show a leading behaviorist who rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior  
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show Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894  
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show psychology  
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In what year appeared the first psychology lab?   show
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Who launched the first psychology lab?   show
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show 1920's, behaviorist  
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When did psychology become widely know as the "science of behavior and mental processes" and what brought about that change?   show
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show nature-nurture issue  
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What are the different perspectives that psychologists study?   show
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show biological, developmental, cognitive, personality, and social psychology  
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show practice as a helping profession; they study, assess, and treat (with psychotherapy) people with psychological disorders  
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What is the difference in a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist?   show
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show Wilhelm Wundt  
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show William James  
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In the early 20th century, (________) redefined psychology as "the science of observable behavior".   show
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show biology is to experience  
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show social-cultural  
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show clinical psychologist  
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What was the first psychology experiment?   show
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What was Wundt seeking to measure in his awareness experiment?   show
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What was Wilhelm Wundt and where was he from?   show
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show pioneered the study of learning, Russian physiologist  
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show developed an influential theory of personality, Austrian physician  
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Who was Jean Piaget, what did he do, and where was he from?   show
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show author of an important textbook, American philosopher  
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show she completed all the requirements to receive a Harvard Ph.D but was denied because she was a woman.  
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show Radcliffe College, the undergraduate sister school of Harvard for women  
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When did Mary Calkins become the president of the APA?   show
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What was early psychology's focus?   show
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show focusing on inner sensations, images, and feelings  
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Early psychology was considered "the science of ______"   show
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show John B. Watson and B.F Skinner  
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During the 20's to the 60's psychology became know as " the scientific study of _____ _____'?   show
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Who were Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow?   show
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show the cognitive revolution  
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Psychology today is know as "the science of ______ and _______ ______"   show
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The nature-nurture controversy began with who?   show
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What is the focus of the perspective neuroscience?   show
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What is the focus of the perspective of evolutionary?   show
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What is the focus of the perspective of behavior genetics?   show
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show how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts  
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show how we learn observable responses  
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show how we encode, precess, store, and retrieve information  
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What is the focus of the perspective of social-cultural?   show
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What does a biological psychologist do?   show
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show studies our changing abilities from womb to tomb  
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show experiment on how we perceive, think, and solve problems  
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What does a social psychologist do?   show
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show uses concepts and methods to help organizations and companies select and train employees, boost morale and productivity, design products, and implement systems  
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show helps people to cope with challenges and crisis and to improve their personal and social functioning  
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show assess and treat mental, emotional, and behavior disorders  
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What do psychiatrist do?   show
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What is the interdisciplinary study of psychohistory?   show
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What is the interdisciplinary study of psycholinguistics?   show
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