Intro To Psych

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How many chromosomes are in the human body

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46

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What happens in the visual processing of a colorblind person?

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The person has defective red cones which leads to inaccurate red-green processing

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Red & green

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Personality tests in which respondents are allowed to ascertain their own needs and characteristics onto some neutral object are called

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Projective tests

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Sexual orientation is measured along

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A continuum

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What is a popular cognitive approach to behavior modification which involves the patient simply trying to intervene in negative cognitive patterns?

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Thought stopping therapy

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The wrinkled area of the brain that forms the outermost layer is called:

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Cerebral cortex

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When people or organisms are forced to alter their perspectives or deportment in order to cope with a necessary shift, they can undergo negative reactions like experiencing anxiety or even becoming physically ill as part of this process. This process is called:

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Stress

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Which facet of memory most closely approximates conscious experience?

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Short term memory

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What is the nature of a Type II error?

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Concluding that no relationship exists between two variables of interest when actually one is present.

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If a person takes action based on an impulse related to survival, that person could said to be acting out of:

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Instinct

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If a horse is first taught to respond to a trainer by jumping over a fence, the horse can then be trained to jump the fence while carrying a rider. This type of step-wise training is an example of which process?

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Shaping

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Similarity, proximity, and familiarity are determinants of

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Friendship formation

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F

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What is the most commons form of psychological disorder?

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Psychotic

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an individual showing improvement due to the individual's belief in the therapy.

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The placebo effect

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Freud believed that the superego is the portion of the psyche which is

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Socialized

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Checking the soda machines coin return each time you pass by is a specific type of behavior that is reinforced by which type of schedule

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Variable ratio

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Ratio

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A diagnosis of schizophrenia typically includes which symptom

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Delusions

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When is a neuron considered polarized?

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When it's in its rested state

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When a research participant is asked in advance to give permission to take part in a study, that person has:

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Given informed consent

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What is the human sense of taste commonly called

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Gustation

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If a person sees individual frame shots of a hummingbird's wings moving, the brain will cause the person to perceive the still shots as comprising motion: this is due to the perceptual capacity of:

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Apparent motion

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Which social psychologist asserts that people come to gain self-knowledge by making inferences about observations of their own actions?

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Daryl bem

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Larry often goes running by himself; however, when he runs with a running group on Saturday mornings, his times are always faster than when he is alone. This effect could be an example of:

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Social facilitation

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Another name for a positive correlation that can exist between two variables is:

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A direct relationship

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Which type of psychological disorder can be traced back to a negative attributional style?

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Depression

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Jean Piaget viewed adaptation as consisting of two primary processes?

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Assimilation and accommodation

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To calculate the standard deviation of a set of scores, a researcher would subtract which value from each of the scores, and then take the average of these values?

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Mean

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Louis buys a car and thinks he is paying a certain price for it. However, when he goes to finalize the papers, 3 sets of additional fees have been added on. This phenomenon is an example of:

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The lowball approach

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According to Freud, the conscience resides in what

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The superego

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Louis buys a car and thinks he is paying a certain price for it. However, when he goes to finalize the papers, 3 sets of additional fees have been added on. This phenomenon is an example of:

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The lowball approach

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According to Freud, the conscience resides in what

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The superego

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The belief that ones culture is morally superior to others is called

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Ethnocentrism

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Louis buys a car and thinks he is paying a certain price for it. However, when he goes to finalize the papers, 3 sets of additional fees have been added on. This phenomenon is an example of:

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The lowball approach

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According to Freud, the conscience resides in what

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The superego

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The belief that ones culture is morally superior to others is called

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Ethnocentrism

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One major difference between operant and Pavlovian conditioning is that

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operant responses are voluntary, while Pavlovian responses are involuntary.

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Louis buys a car and thinks he is paying a certain price for it. However, when he goes to finalize the papers, 3 sets of additional fees have been added on. This phenomenon is an example of:

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The lowball approach

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According to Freud, the conscience resides in what

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The superego

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The belief that ones culture is morally superior to others is called

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Ethnocentrism

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One major difference between operant and Pavlovian conditioning is that

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operant responses are voluntary, while Pavlovian responses are involuntary.

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Developmental psychologists use the term instrumental aggression to refer to behavior in which the aggressor

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acts to achieve a goal

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Louis buys a car and thinks he is paying a certain price for it. However, when he goes to finalize the papers, 3 sets of additional fees have been added on. This phenomenon is an example of:

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The lowball approach

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According to Freud, the conscience resides in what

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The superego

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The belief that ones culture is morally superior to others is called

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Ethnocentrism

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One major difference between operant and Pavlovian conditioning is that

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operant responses are voluntary, while Pavlovian responses are involuntary.

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Developmental psychologists use the term instrumental aggression to refer to behavior in which the aggressor

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acts to achieve a goal

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Overwhelming and irrational fear associated with a particular thing or experience

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Phobia

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Process that causes people in a group or crowd to lose some of their inhibitions

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Deindividuation

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Louis buys a car and thinks he is paying a certain price for it. However, when he goes to finalize the papers, 3 sets of additional fees have been added on. This phenomenon is an example of:

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The lowball approach

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According to Freud, the conscience resides in what

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The superego

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The belief that ones culture is morally superior to others is called

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Ethnocentrism

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One major difference between operant and Pavlovian conditioning is that

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operant responses are voluntary, while Pavlovian responses are involuntary.

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Developmental psychologists use the term instrumental aggression to refer to behavior in which the aggressor

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acts to achieve a goal

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Overwhelming and irrational fear associated with a particular thing or experience

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Phobia

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Process that causes people in a group or crowd to lose some of their inhibitions

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Deindividuation

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Which type of therapy tries to correct irrational beliefs that lead to psychological distress

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Cognitive

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Louis buys a car and thinks he is paying a certain price for it. However, when he goes to finalize the papers, 3 sets of additional fees have been added on. This phenomenon is an example of:

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The lowball approach

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According to Freud, the conscience resides in what

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The superego

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The belief that ones culture is morally superior to others is called

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Ethnocentrism

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One major difference between operant and Pavlovian conditioning is that

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operant responses are voluntary, while Pavlovian responses are involuntary.

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Developmental psychologists use the term instrumental aggression to refer to behavior in which the aggressor

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acts to achieve a goal

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Overwhelming and irrational fear associated with a particular thing or experience

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Phobia

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Process that causes people in a group or crowd to lose some of their inhibitions

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Deindividuation

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Which type of therapy tries to correct irrational beliefs that lead to psychological distress

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Cognitive

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What part of the brain is primarily responsible for relaying incoming sensory information to the cerebral cortex

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Thalamus

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Louis buys a car and thinks he is paying a certain price for it. However, when he goes to finalize the papers, 3 sets of additional fees have been added on. This phenomenon is an example of:

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The lowball approach

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Which cortical area is most closely associated with vision?

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Occipital

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According to Freud, the conscience resides in what

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The superego

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The belief that ones culture is morally superior to others is called

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Ethnocentrism

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One major difference between operant and Pavlovian conditioning is that

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operant responses are voluntary, while Pavlovian responses are involuntary.

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Developmental psychologists use the term instrumental aggression to refer to behavior in which the aggressor

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acts to achieve a goal

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Overwhelming and irrational fear associated with a particular thing or experience

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Phobia

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Process that causes people in a group or crowd to lose some of their inhibitions

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Deindividuation

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Which type of therapy tries to correct irrational beliefs that lead to psychological distress

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Cognitive

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What part of the brain is primarily responsible for relaying incoming sensory information to the cerebral cortex

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Thalamus

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The behavioral research perspective is similar to the sociocultural research perspective because both focus on how behavior and mental processes are explained by

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The external environment