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| Contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of: | show 🗑
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| show | multiple levels of analysis.
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| Clinical psychologists are most likely to be involved in: | show 🗑
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| show | psychiatrist.
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| The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to: | show 🗑
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| show | critical thinking.
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| show | testable prediction that gives direction to research.
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| In which type of research is a representative random sample of people asked to answer question about their behaviors or attitudes? | show 🗑
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| psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzee societies in the jungle are using a research method know as: | show 🗑
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| Correlation refers to the extent to which two variables: | show 🗑
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| show | the perception of a relationship between two variables that does not exist.
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| show | the experiment.
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| In which type of research would an investigator manipulate one factor in oder to observe its effect on some behavior or mental process? | show 🗑
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| To minimize the extent to which outcome differences between experimental and control groups can be attributed to placebo effects, researchers make use of: | show 🗑
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| show | reduce the likelihood of any preexisting differences between groups of participants.
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| In a psychological experiment, the potentially causal factor that is manipulated by the investigator is called the _____ variable. | show 🗑
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| In a psychological experiment, the factor that may be influenced by the manipulated experimental treatment is called the _____ variable. | show 🗑
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| show | reviewing material.
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| show | neurons.
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| An axon is: | show 🗑
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| show | myelin sheath.
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| show | action potential.
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| Information is carried from the central nervous system to the body's tissues by: | show 🗑
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| Hormones are the chemical messengers of the: | show 🗑
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| If your ____ is destroyed, the left side of your brain could not be control the movements of your right hand. | show 🗑
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| Which brain structure receives information from all the senses except smell? | show 🗑
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| show | cerebellum.
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| The motor cortex is located in the _____ lobes. | show 🗑
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| show | association areas.
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| show | Broca's area.
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| After Paul's serious snow-skiing accident, doctors detected damage to his cerebral cortex in Wernicke's area. Because of the damage, Paul is most likely to experience difficulty in: | show 🗑
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| The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area is know as brain: | show 🗑
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| The corpus callosum is a wide band of axon fibers that: | show 🗑
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| A behavior geneticist would be most interested in studying hereditary influences on: | show 🗑
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| DNA is a complex: | show 🗑
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| show | gene.
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| The genome is the complete: | show 🗑
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| show | emotional excitability.
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| Evolutionary psychology studies the evolution of behavior and the mind using principles of: | show 🗑
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| show | natural selection.
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| show | norms.
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| Personal space refers to: | show 🗑
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| Individualism is to collectivism as ____ is to _____ . | show 🗑
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| show | a set of expected behaviors for males and females.
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| show | the sense of being male or female.
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| Social learning theorists emphasize that: | show 🗑
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| show | gener schema theory.
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| show | substance that can cross the placental barrier and harm an unborn child.
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| Maturation refers to: | show 🗑
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| Which psychologist was most influential in shaping our understanding of cognitive development? | show 🗑
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| Cognition refers to: | show 🗑
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| According to Piaget, schemas are: | show 🗑
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| Incorporating new information into existing theories is to ____ as modifying existing theories in light of new information is to _____. | show 🗑
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| show | sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, formal operational
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| show | schemas.
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| In a pleasant but unfamiliar setting, infants with a secure maternal attachment are most likely to: | show 🗑
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| show | the beginning of sexual maturity to independent adulthood.
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| One argument against the death penalty for 16- and 17-year-olds is that maturation of the ___ lags behind maturation of the ___. | show 🗑
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| The ability to think logically about hypothetical situations is indicative of the ____ stage of development. | show 🗑
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| Piaget is to cognitive development as Kohlberg is to ____ development. | show 🗑
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| Even though smoking marijuana would reduce the pain associated with her chronic medical condition, Juanita believes it would be morally wrong because it is prohibited by the laws of her state. Kohlberg would suggest that Juanita demonstrates a(n): | show 🗑
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| show | identity.
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| show | crystallized intelligence.
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