AP Psychology Exam Review Flashcards
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Blair’s heart started to pound and her palms began to sweat. These physiological reactions were activated by her…. Nervous system
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Sympathetic
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The idea that an emotion arousing stimulus is simultaneously routed to the cortex and to the sympathetic nervous system is central to the…
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Cannon Bard theory
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Following a catastrophic earthquake, residents of one community came together and provided each other with emotional support this illustrates…
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The tend and befriend response
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When your pulse turns back to normal after high arousal it is due to your ….. Nervous system
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Parasympathetic
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The two factor theory of emotion was proposed by…
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Stanley Schachter and Jerome Singer
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Patient thinks he is afraid of elevators but his breathing is actually due to lack of oxygen in smaller spaces demostraights…
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Two factor theory
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In a complete sexual response cycle…
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The plateau phase immediately precedes orgasm
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A drive
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An aroused, motivated state that is often triggered by a physiological need
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The specific body weight maintained automatically by most adults over long periods of time is known as the…
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Set point
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Extreme laughing after being extremely scared
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Spillover effect
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During a state of emotional arousal, the adrenal glands release…. Into the bloodstream
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Norepinephrine
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Which theory would be most helpful for explaining why people are motivated to watch horror movies
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Arousal theory
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What are the three phases of the general adaptation syndrome
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Alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion
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What are the basic components of emotion
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Expressive behaviors, physiological arousal, and conscious experience
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Refractory period
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Time span after orgasm during which a male can’t get hard
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The theory that says noticing what changes in you body makes you conclude that you feel a certain way
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Two factor theory
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Motivation
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A need or desire that energizes and directs behavior toward a goal
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The body’s tendency to maintain a constant internal state is known as…
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Homeostasis
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Hunger controls are located within the brain’s…
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Hypothalamus
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The arousal theory of motivation would be most useful for explaining an infant’s urge to…
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Explore
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A hoe one the increases heart rate, blood pressure, and blood sugar levels in times of emergency is…
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Epinephrine
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People’s dislike of novel foods best illustrates…
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Neophobia
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What happened when a guy swallowed a ballon and blew it up in his stomach
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He found that hunger pangs accompany feelings of hunger
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What does our experience of emotion depend on
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How we interpret the body’s arousal
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Stress
The process by which we perceive and respond to environmental threats and challenges
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Which theory states that emotion results from the cognitive labeling of our physiological arousal
Two factor
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The polygraph measures the changes in.... That accompany emotions
Heart rate
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People are more vulnerable to obesity if they experience...
Sleep deprivation
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The first phase of general adaptation syndrome
Alarm reaction
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Which theory most clearly emphasizes the importance of homeostasis in motivation
Drive reduction theory
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Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system...
Slows heart rate and accelerates digestion
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An unlearned behavior
An instinct
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Which theory suggests that the experience of emotion results from an awareness of our own physiological responses to an emotion arousing event?
James Lange Theory
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Which division of the nervous system arouses the body and mobilizes its energy in emotionally stressful situations?
Sympathetic
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What is the most basic level in the hierarchy of needs
Food and drink
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Systematically trying ever key to the lock on the door is using an...
Algorithm
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The tendency to remember something depending on what state you were in when you learned it and the state you are in now
State dependent memory
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Sounds and words that are not immediately attended to cab still be recalled a couple of seconds later due to our..... Memory
Echoic
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To prevent coding failure you should...
Engage in effortful processing
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Hermann Ebbingghaus' use of nonsense syllables to study memory led to the discovery that...
The amount remembered depends on the time spent learning
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People who are depressed are more likely to recall their parents as rejecting and punitive illustrates..
Mood congruent memory
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A type of motivated forgetting where unpleasant memories are blocked for development
Repression
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Where are flashbulb memories stored
Long term memory
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Remembering images
Iconic memory
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An assumption that someone belongs to a particular group based on the way they act illustrates...
The representativeness heuristic
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Déjà vu
Eerie sense of having previously experienced a situation or event
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Ebbinghaus discovered that the rate at which we forget newly learned information is initially....
Rapid and subsequently slows down
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Our tendency to judge the likelihood of an event on the basis of how readily we can remember instances of its occurrence is called the...
Availability heuristic
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Exceptionally clear memories of emotionally significant events...
Flash bulb memories
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Long term potentiation
An increase in a neuron's firing potential
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Which type of memory has unlimited capacity
Long term memory
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What items are you most likely to forget in a list
The ones in the middle
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Metal set
Tendency to approach a problem in a way that has been successful in the past
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Confirmation bias
A tendency to search for information that supports ones preconceptions
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The tendency to recall the first and last items in a list is called the...
Serial position effect
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The process of getting information into memory is called...
Encoding
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Semantic encoding refers to the processing of....
Meanings
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Encoding that occurs with no effort or a minimal level of conscious attention is known as...
Automatic processing
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Chunking
The organization of information into meaningful units
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The disruptive effect of prior learning on recall of new information is called...
Proactive interference
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Example of testing effect
Repeated quizzing of information increases the chances it will be recalled
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Memory
The persistence of learning through the storage and retrieval of information
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The magical number of 7 plus or minus 2 refers to the storage capacity of...
Short term memory
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Explicit memories...
Include memories for general knowledge
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The inability to remember how Lincoln's head appears on a penny is most likely due to failure in...
Iconic memory
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Aaron remembers his old gf's number but it's hard for him to learn the new one's. This difficulty illustrates...
Proactive interference
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Heuristics
Simple thinking strategies for solving problems quickly and efficiently
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Vivid detailed memory remembered after something triggers it illustrates...
Source amnesia
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Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fall asleep is most likely due to...
Encoding failure
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Learning something but then forgetting it signifies damage to...
Hippocampus
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Recalling last items in a list accurately
Recency effect
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Hearing the word rabbit may lead people to spell the word hair as hare. This best illustrates the outcome of a process known as...
Priming
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After learning a new locker combination, Martin has trouble remembering his old combination this illustrates....
Retroactive interference
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The inability to remember things before a brain injury
Retrograde amnesia
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A teacher watches boys more closely than girls because she thinks boys are naughtier illustrates..
Confirmation bias
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The misinformation effect refers to the...
Incorporation of misleading information into one's memory of an event
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I before E except after C...
A heuristic
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Visually associating five items from the grocery store with mental images of a bun, a shoe, a tree, a door, and a high five illustrates...
The peg word system
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Not thinking outside the box when solving problems
Fixation
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Algorithm
Methodical step by step procedure to solve problems
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When someone says Ivy League colleges, Trisha automatically thinks of Harvard, in. This case Harvard is a...
A prototype
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People learn better in small increments spaced out rather than cramming this illustrates....
The spacing effect
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A teacher promises kids gold stars for good grades, her behavior undermines...
Intrinsic motivation
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Psychologist most closely associated with operant conditioning
BF Skinner
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Researchers condition a flatworm to contract its body to a light by repeated pairing the light with electric shock. The stage in which the flatworm's contraction response to light is established and gradually strengthened is called...
Acquisition
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A parking ticket is considered...
Positive punishment
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An event that increases the frequency of an event that follows
Reinforcer
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In Pavlov's experiment,mine dog's salivation triggered by the taste of food was...
Unconditioned response
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What is an example of an unconditioned response
Jerking your hand off a hot stove
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Giving up all efforts to physically survive
Learned helplessness
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A variable interval schedule of reinforcement is one in which a response is reinforced only after a...
Unpredictable time period has elapsed
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Skinner box
Chamber containing a bar or key that an animal can manipulate to obtain a reward
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Little bro wears close same as big bro this demonstrates
Modeling
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Monkeys find a way to get bananas out of their reach what kind of learning is this
Insight learning
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The dogs salivation trigger by a tone was...
Conditioned response
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Spontaneous recovery
Reappearance of a conditioned response
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Learning a sound to be associated with food
Classical conditioning
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Dogs strapped into a harness and given repeated shocks developed...
Learned helplessness
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Rats run through a maze with no problems if there is food at the end this illustrates....
Latent learning
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The researcher most closely associated with classical conditioning
Ivan Pavlov
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Learning involves...
A relatively permanent change in behavior due to experience
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Children often learn to associate pushing a level with the delivery of a candy bar. This is called...
Operant conditioning
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Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate to one tone but not to another this illustrates...
Discrimination
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Reward after every ten times... Reinforcement schedule
Fixed ratio
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Law of effect
Tendency to repeat behaviors that are rewarded
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Closing your bedroom door so that you won't hear the TV that is interfering with your studying is an example of...
Negative reinforcement
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Marcy grows for herself while Jen grows for money
Marcy: .... Motivation
Jen: .... Motivation
M: intrinsic
J: extrinsic
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Mental maps of our worlds around us
Cognitive maps
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Revoking a drivers license is...
Negative punishment
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Infants developed a fear of books after the books are associated with a loud noise. The loud noise is
Unconditioned stimulus
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What was the unconditioned stimulus in Pavolv's dog experiment
Food
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Using steps to train
Successive approximations
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One chimp sees another open a box so another one does it with great speed this illustrates...
Observational learning
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Little Albert developed fear of rats when paired with loud noise. Loud noise is...
Unconditioned stimulus
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Little Albert was also afraid of other white fuzzy things....
Generalization
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Classical conditioning is constrained by what?
Biological predispositions
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Who introduced behaviorism
John B Watson
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Infants afraid of roses after roses presented with shock. Roses are
Conditioned stimulus
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Monica's psychologist re,I don't her of her own father so she has the same emotions when she sees him this illustrates...
Generalization
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BF Skinner's work elaborated what EL Thorndike had called...
The law of effect
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After Pavlov had conditioned a dog to salivate to a tone, he repeatedly sounded the tone without presenting food. As a result..... Occurred
Extinction
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With the approach of night, our body temperatures begin to drop. This illustrates...
Circadian rhythm
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Decrease in sleep makes one more susceptible to what
Viral infections
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What theory suggests that dreams are mental responses to random bursts of neural stimulation
Activation synthesis theory
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Although repeated use of the amphetamines has caused Aaron legal problems, which threatens his job, he continues to use the drugs. This illustrates...
Addiction
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Why is REM sleep also called paradoxical sleep
Our nervous system is highly active, while our voluntary muscles hardly move
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Genital arousal is most likely to be associated with...
REM sleep
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Morphine and heroin
Opiates
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Dissociation
A state of divided consciousness
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Consciousness
Our awareness of ourselves and our environment
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How I'd the hypothalamus involved in sleep
In response to decreasing light it causes the pineal gland to increase the production of melatonin
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Our inability to fall asleep as early as we had planned is most likely a reflection of...
Circadian rhythm
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The human sleep cycle repeats itself about every...
90 minutes
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Unresolved feelings that appear in dreams
Latent content
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Sleep apnea is a disorder involving...
The cessation of breathing during sleep
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Compulsive craving for and use of a drug is an indication of...
Addiction
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The rhythmic bursts of brain activity that occur during NREM-2 sleep
Sleep spindles
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When can we remember dreams the best
After 5 minutes of REM sleep
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Stopping breathing while sleeping
Sleep apnea
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The longer you sleep the more what sleep takes place?
REM
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What is the latent content of a dream
The underlying but censored meaning
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The need to take larger and larger doses of a drug in order to experience its effects
Tolerance
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Fast jerky movements of the eyes are especially likely to be associated with...
REM sleep
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Circadian rhythm
A pattern of biological functioning that occurs on a roughly 24 hour cycle
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How did the definition of psychology change when behaviorism began to dominate the field
Psychology centered on direct observations of our actions
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Screaming in the night but not remembering it
Night terrors
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REM rebound involves the...
Tendency for REM sleep to increase following REM sleep deprivation
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In what stage of sleep does one breath quickly and have moving eyes
REM sleep
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Obesity can make you develop what sleep disorder
Sleep apnea
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In paradoxical sleep your body is likely to do what
Have very relaxed muscles
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Difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep
Insomnia
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The sensation of falling occurs in which stage of sleep
NREM-3 sleep
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Chronic sleep debt is most likely to promote
Obesity
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The discomfort and distress that follow the discontinued use of certain drugs is called...
Withdrawal
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What is a typical night's sleep
As sleep progresses, NREM-3 sleep diminishes while REM sleep increases
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What is nicotine
A stimulant
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Chemical substances that alter perceptions and moods
Psychoactive drugs
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The large slow brainwaves associated with deep sleep
Delta waves
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Alcohol and opiates
Depressants
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Nembutal, Seconal, and Amytal drugs prescribed to reduce insomnia
Barbiturates
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Dreams often involve sudden emotional reactions and surprising changes in scene. This best serves to support the theory that dreams...
Are triggered by random bursts of neural activity
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Research indicates that memories retrieved during hypnosis are...
Often a combination of fact and fiction
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Adolescents are most likely to start smoking in order to..,
Gain social acceptance
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Drug intolerance refers to the...
Reduced effect of a drug resulting from regular usage
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Manifest content
The remembered storyline of a dream
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Shane, a straight A student, remembers dreaming that he failed an important chemistry test. According to Freud, Shane's account represents the .... Content of his dream
Manifest
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Is retinal disparity a monocular or binocular cue of distance
Binocular
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Oh experiences, assumptions, and expectations may give us a perceptual set that influences what we perceive. This is an example of...
Top down processing
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Which theory emphasizes that personal expectations and motivations influence the level of absolute thresholds
Place theory
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Your mental tendency to fill in the last word of a common phrase illustrates...
Closure
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Although Manuel was sitting right next to his parents, he smelled a skunk minutes before they did. Apparently Manuel has a lower... For skunk odor than his parents have
Olfactory saturation level
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Perceptual set
Mental predisposition that influences what we perceive
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The green colored ham and eggs had such a strange appearance that they tasted terrible to Sam. This illustrates the importance of..
Sensory interaction
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Current research suggest what about the trichromatic and opponent process theories
Both are valid in explaining color and vision
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Young Helmholtz theory
The retina contains three kinds of color receptors
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Transduction
The process by which your ears convert the sound waves from the siren into neural impulses
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The quick succession of briefly flashed images in a motion picture produces...
Stroboscopic movement
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Blind spot
The area of the retina where the optic nerve leaves the eye
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Depth perception that uses information transmitted to only one eye depends on...
Monocular cues
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As the brain receives information about the lines, angles, and edges of objects in the environment, higher-level cells process and interpret the information to consciously recognize objects. This process best illustrates
Perception
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If we see two of the same object but one of them appears to be dimmer, we will interpret the dimmer objects as father away. What is this monocular cue for depth called?
Light and shadow
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Weber's law
The principle that two stimuli must differ by a constant proportion for their difference to be perceived
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Objects are brought into focus on the retina by changes in the curvature and thickness of the...
Lens
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Color constancy refers to the fact that
Objects are perceived to be the same color even if the light they reflect changes
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Experiencing a green afterimage of a red object is most easily explained by the...
Opponent process theory
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Who emphasized that the whole may exceed the sum of its parts
Gestalt psychologists
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As you look at an apple, it's reflected light travels to the eye. The rods and cones absorb the light and help transmit the information to the brain. The illustrates...
Sensation
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After listening to your high volume car stereo for 15 minutes you fail to realize how loudly the music is blasting. This best illustrates...
Sensory adaptation
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Transduction
The process by which our sensory systems convert stimulus energies into neural messages
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The convergence of parallel lines provides the distance cue known as...
Linear perspective
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Change blindness
The failure to notice a change
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Which theory best explains how we perceive low pitched sounds
Frequency theory
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Proximity
The perceptual tendency to group together stimuli that are near each other
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With her eyes closed, Sierra can accurately touch her mouth, nose, and chin with her index finger. This represents the importance of...
Kinesthesis
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Photographs of people were rated more positively if the photos immediately followed a briefly flashed image of kittens. This best illustrates the impact of...
Priming
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After losing his left hand in an accident, Jack continued to experience pain in his nonexistent hand. His experience illustrates...
Phantom limb sensations
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Feature detectors
Nerve cells in the brain's visual cortex that fire in response to specific edges lines and angles
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Trying to see a hidden representational image in a piece of abstract art by looking carefully at each element in the picture and trying to form an image employs which kind of perceptual
Bottom up processing
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The cocktail party effect
The ability to pay attention to only one voice at a time
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What is the afterimage of red
Green
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Olfactory receptor cells are essential for our sense of...
Smell
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Damage to the hammer, anvil, and stirrup is most likely to cause
Conduction hearing loss
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The fact that people who are colorblind to red and green may still see yellow is most easily explained by the...
Opponent process theory
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The pitch of a sound is determined by
The frequency of the sound wave
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When two adjacent lights blink on and off in quick succession, we perceive a single light moving back and forth between the. This is called...
The phi phenomenon
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Which receptor cells most directly enable us to distinguish different wavelengths of light?
Cones
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The minimum amount of stimulation a person needs to detect a stimulus 50 percent of the time is called the...
Absolute threshold
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Pedestrians are more likely to cross a street unsafely if they are talking on a cell phone. This illustrates...
Selective attention
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One of the ways we perceive images is by organizing stimuli into an object seen against its surroundings. What is this perceptual tendency called?
Figure ground
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Diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is know as...
Sensory adaptation
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Light wave amplitude determines the...
Intensity of colors
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In one experiment, most of the participants who viewed a video tape of men tossing a basketball remained unaware of an umbrella toting woman sauntering across the screen. This illustrates...
Inattentional blindness
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The classic gate control theory suggests that pain is experienced when small nerve fibers activate and open a neural gate in the...
Spinal cord
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Experiments with the visual close suggest that
The ability to perceive depth is at least partly innate
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Dilation and constriction of the pupil are controlled by the...
Iris
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Reuptake
Reabsorption of excess neurotransmitter molecules by a sending neuron
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Migraine headaches are most closely linked with an...
Oversupply of glutamate
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The slowdown of neural communication in multiple sclerosis involves a degeneration of the...
Myelin sheath
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The longest part of a neuron is likely to be the....
Synapse
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What is the function of the dendrites
Receive incoming signals from other neurons
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Threshold
The minimum level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
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Plasticity
The capacity of one brain area to take over the functions of another damaged brain area
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Heritability
Trait differences among individuals are attributed to genetic variations
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Alzheimer's disease is most closely linked to the deterioration of neuron that produces...
Acetylcholine
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Which of the following techniques would surgeons use in mapping the areas of the brain responsible for specific activities such as movement or speech
Positron emission tomography (PET)
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The auditory hallucinations experienced by people with schizophrenia are most closely linked with the activation of areas in which brain area
Temporal lobes
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Your life would be most immediately threatened if you suffered destruction of the...
Medulla
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What are the molecules that are similar enough to a neurotransmitter to bind to its receptor sites on a dendrite and mimic that neurotransmitter's effects called?
Agonists
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Severing a cat's reticular formation from higher brain regions causes the cat to...
Lapse into a coma
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Neurotransmitters
The spatial junctions where impulses are chemically transmitted from one neuron to another
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Action potential
A brief electrical charge that travels down the axon of a neuron
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The tremors of Parkinson's disease result from the death of nerve cells that produce the neurotransmitter
Dopamine
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The secretions of the pituitary gland are most directly regulated by the...
Hypothalamus
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Refractory period
Positively charged ions are pumped back outside a neural membrane
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Lack of pain is most likely linked to the release of...
Dopamine
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A person with schizophrenia may have an overactive dopamine system. Drugs used to treat this disorder prevent the action of dopamine by keeping it from blinding to its receptors. These drugs are...
Antagonists
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Pituitary gland
The master gland of the endocrine system
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Which region of the brain will a fMRI show as active when a person is looking at a photo
Occipital lobes
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An under supply of serotonin is most closely linked to...
Depression
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Sleep researchers who are interested in brain wave activity are likely to use which kind of brain scan..
EEG
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Which type of neuron carries messages to the brain
Sensory
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Which of the following is the component of the limbic system that plays an essential role in the processing of new memories
Hippocampus
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Psychologist Michael Gazzaniga asked split-brain patients to stare at a dog as he flashed HE+ART on a screen. HE appeared in the left visual field, Art on the right. When asked, patients said the saw...
ART
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Which lobe did Phineas Gage damage
Frontal
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The concentration of glucose in active regions of the brain underlines the usefulness of a...
PET scan
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When the release of ACh is blocked, the result is...
Muscular paralysis
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Thalamus
Relays information from the eyes to the visual cortex
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In transmitting sensory information to the brain, an electrical signal travels from the ... Of a single neuron
Axon to the cell body to the dendrites
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Increasing excitatory signals above the threshold for neural activation will not affect the intensity of an action potential. This indicates that a neuron's reaction is..
An all or none response
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Schizophrenia is most closely linked with excess receptor activity for the neurotransmitter
Dopamine
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The threadlike structures that contain genes are called...
Chromosomes
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To demonstrate that brain stimulation can make a rat violently aggressive, a neuroscientist should electrically stimulate the rats's...
Amygdala
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Information travels from the spinal cord to the brain via
Interneurons
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Which brain area is primarily involved with controlling speech
Broca's area
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If college graduates typically earn more money than high school graduates, this would indicate that level of education and income are...
Positively correlated
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A researcher interested in proving a cause and effect relationship between two variables should choose which research method
Experiment
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Random selected students from a school, are considered to be a...
Population
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To reduce bias in a sample, what can one do
Random assignment
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Illusory correlation
A perceived but nonexistent correlation
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What is the mean of people that will score between 85 and 115
68%
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A researcher who deceives participants about the goals of the research needs to fully inform them of the true nature of the study later according to which ethical principle
Debriefing
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Correlational research is most useful for purposes of..
Prediction
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How do you know which is a stronger correlation coefficient
Farthest away from zero
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A study where both participants and conductors are blind
The double blind study
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The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to..
Exaggerate their ability to have foreseen the outcome of past events
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Which research method is typically used to examine one participant in depth, usually because the individual's situation I'd rate or unusual
Case study
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In an experiment designed to study the effectiveness of a new drug, research participants who receive a placebo are participating in the ... Condition
Control
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Why is replication important to science
Repeated research with similar results increases confidence in the reliability of the original finding
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A researcher who publishes the results of a case study might me worried about violating which ethical principle of human experimentation
Confidentiality
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The process of replication is most likely to be facilitated by..
Operational definitions
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Mean
The arithmetic average of a distribution of scores
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Psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzee societies in the jungle are using a research, methods known as...
Naturalistic observation
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A researcher interested in investigating that attitudes or opinions of a large sample of people I'd most likely to use which research method
Survey
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If I conduct an expeiement without someone's permission which ethical principle have I violated
Informed consent
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Range
The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution
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Empirical approach
Basing decisions or conclusions on observable evidence
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Operational definition
A specification of the procedures used to measure a variable
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The specialist most likely to have a medical degree is a..
Psychiatrist
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Who was the first woman to receive a PHD in psychology
Margaret Washburn
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Psychologist who treats adults who suffer from severe depression
Clinical
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Industrial organizational psychology
Tests to accurately identify the most qualified job applicants
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Depression is an illness that may be related to chemical imbalances in the brain, illogical thinking, and impaired social skills. What approach?
Biopsychosocial approach
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The believe the severe depression results primarily from an imbalanced diet and abnormal brain chemistry. Which perspective is this..
Biological
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Humanistic psychologists focused on the importance of..
Healthy growth potential
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Contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of...
Behavioral and mental processes
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Who was the first female president of the American Psychological Association?
Mary Calkins
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A clinical psychologist who explains behavior in terms of unconscious drives and conflicts is employing a .... Perspective
Psychodynamic
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Which perspective most clearly focuses on how we learn observable responses
Behavioral
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Which perspective is most concerned with how individuals interpret their experiences
Cognitive
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A concern with the reasoning processes that contribute to effective problem solving is most characteristic of the.... Perspective
Cognitive
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Husband's angry outbursts against woman result from his unconscious hatred of his own mother. What perspective is this?
Psychodynamic
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Who would have been most likely to ignore mental processes and to define psychology as "the scientific study of observable behavior"
John B. Watson
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Psychologists who conduct basic research on how children's moral thinking changes as they grow older
Developmental
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Abnormal blood chemistry can contribute to psychological disorder this is what perspective
Biological
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Who would be most likely to emphasize the role of the unconscious in affecting behavior
Sigmund Freud
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Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory work involved experimental studies of...
Reactions to sensory stimulation
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Kid is an excellent student because mom gave him encouragement what kind of perspective is this
Behavioral
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The low incidences of alcoholism amoung citizens of a small african country can be attributed to a strong fundamentalist religious influences in that region. What kind of perspective is this
Socio-cultural
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Functionalism was developed by who?
William James
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In the early 1960's the cognitive revolutionary in psychology involved a renewal of interest in the scientific study of...
Mental processes
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The self reflective observation of one's own sensations and feelings is called..
Introspection
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The first psychological laboratory was established by
Wilhem Wundt
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Who authored the first psychological textbook in 1890
William James
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The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as
Natural selection
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Efforts to discover whether the intelligence of children is more heavily influenced by their biology or by their home environments are most directly relevant to the debate regarding..
Nature v nurture
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Which philosopher is most well known for theorizing that the mind at birth is tabula rasa or a blank slate
John Locke
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The belief that people are genetically predisposed to dislike bitter foods because it has enhanced human survival which perspective
Evolutionary
