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103 Cards in this Set
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Nature refers to
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heredity
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Nurture refers to
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environment
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Do genes play a role in intelligence? In a child's activity level? In how a child responds to a new stimuli in their surrounding?
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Yes
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If someone is a dizygotic twin, their genes are
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No more alike then those of two other siblings
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Monozygotic twins come from ____ sperm that fertilizes one egg then _____.
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One
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When you were a baby, and had a grasping and startle reflex, but no longer have it today. This would be due to th fact that your higher _____ has control over these reflexes and probably decides not to perform them.
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Brain
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Development within a species follows an orderly and specific
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Sequence
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Moms who work outside of the house have the same level of _____ as that of children whos moms stay home
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attatchment
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Dictorial parents tend to raise children who have ____ self esteem
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Poor
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If your parents are usually permissive, will you be indecisive, impulsive, irresponsible and not get along well with others?
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Yes
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Authoritative parents tend to be
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Responsive
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Do people who are child abusers come from a history of child abuse? Are they immature? Do they have alot of knowledge about children?
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No
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Seperation anxiety is caused by the level of _____ of the childs brain
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development
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When a yond child does no understand th principle of reversibility, he is not able to _____ change places with people
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mentally
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Seperation anxiety appears at the same time a child learns to grasp ________________
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object permanace
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The case of Genie deomnstrates that _____ is a maturational process.
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language
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The SAT is an example of an _______ test
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Aptitude test
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If you completed th Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory, you would be compared to others with various _____
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occupations
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__________ is th blocking of goals we are searching for
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Frusteration
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____ is the perception that one cant deal with the changes in ones world
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stress
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______ is a kind of stress associated with going for a job interview
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eustress
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______ is when you have lots of overdue assignments in school and because of that your teacher says you wont pass and then your parents will kick you out of the house
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distress
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Mike, a ______ personality who distracts hi co-workers and often gets angry is likely to develop heart problems
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Type A
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Type B personalities are more _____ then type A people
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flexible
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When we use defense mechanisms are we not fully aware that we are using them? are we tryin to reduce some threat to outselves? do we often begin to believe in the particular distortion that we are using?
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Yes
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Defense Mechanisms can become destructive when we use them ____
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too often
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Someon who thinks that he is funny, but isnt, probably has a distorted ______ concept.
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self
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Girls who become physically _____ early tend to have a low self-esteem, and girls who mature late tend to have ____ self-esteem
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Mature
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A rite of passage is a _____ that marks a persons adult status
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ceremony
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According to Erickson, th promary conflict each of us expierences during adolescence is identity vs. ______ confusion
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role
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Moratorium is a time for ______ major adult commitments
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delaying
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Formal operations, according to Piget, allows us to think about ____ in an abstract way
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Problems
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Mutual _____ is essential to a successful marriage
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respect
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Gerontology is the study of _____
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aging
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A ______ is a place for the terminally ill who can live the rest of their life outside their home.
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Hospice
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Personality is a behavior that remains ______ in a variety of situations
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consistent
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Psychoanalysis is the personality theory that states most of who we are is influenced by ______ forces
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hidden
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According to Freud, the core of our personality is formed during the _____, ______, and ______ stages.
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Oral
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A ______ reaction to Freud woul dbe th same hand that slaps ones father becomes paralyzed
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Hysterical
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If you personality is such that your _______ dominates, then youd probably be quiet and fearful
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super ego
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This realiztically moderates between desires and morals.
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Ego
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The ______ attempts to block all natural drives and instincts.
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super ego
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the ___ is concerned with primitive desires
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id
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the ______ causes guilt for doing bad and pride for doing good
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super ego
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the ______ allows the id to express itself safely
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ego
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During the _______ complex, we have hostility toward the ____ sex parent and ____ toward the ______ sex parent.
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Oedipal
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According to Jung, the collective unconscious includes inherited _____ that guide behavior
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beliefs
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Jung said we adopt _____ to pecome who we think we should become, to cover up real feelings, and to become more like th emythical figures in our unconscious
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Persona
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Neo-Freudians differ from _____ because they placed more emphasis on the influence of social forces
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Freudians
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Ericksons eight stages differ from Freuds because ______ placed more emphasis then ____ on social forces
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Erickson
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Erickson believed that failure to resolve a _____ during a particular stage might be corrected, and Freud was less optimistic.
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conflict
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Ericksons stages span a _______, and Freuds stages do not.
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life time
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Behaviorists view the unconsvious by not _______ the unconscious
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acknowolodging
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Skinner believed that students go to school everyday because tey get some sort of _____ for going to school.
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benefits
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Bandura believed that modeling demonstrates our ability to _____ and interpret, and not just respond as other behaviorists suggest.
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Think
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Modeling demonstrates that _____ can occur.
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learning
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Modeling can teach _____, but if can also help to reduce fears.
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fears
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Rogers believed a fully functioning individual unites her _____ self with her ideal self
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real
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A self-actualized person is one who strives to live up to his or her ______.
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Potentials
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regardless of age, do friendliness, comfort level, and the following of rules remain consistent in behavior or not?
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Consistent
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_______ have the greatest effect on our personality
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Friends
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______ states that the environment has the greatest influence on what most psychologists refer to as the personality
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Behaviorism
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_____ are designed to reveal patterns of answers for different groups of people
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Norms
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If a test is valid it will _____ what it is supposed to measure
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measure
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If you give a test to group A, and then give the same test to group A at a later date then you will be measuring if the test is ______
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reliable
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Personality inventories have potential problems because the tests may ____ people who do not really have a problem
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identify
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The Rorschach test has ____ validity and ____ reliability
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Poor
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When completing the Thematic Apperception Test, the test taker must make up _____ after viewing a series of pictures.
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stories
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The difference between the aptitude and achievement tests is that ________ are designed to predict performance in general and achievement tests measure what you have already learned.
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Aptitude tests
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If jJim feels hostile toward his best friend but takes it out on his dad by yelling, this is called ________
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displacement
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When Nicole feels hostility toward her dad, but in time buries these feelings and forgets abou them then this is ________
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repression
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Mike feels hostility toward his mom, but isnt comfortable with this, and so always tells his mom that he loves her. This is an example of __________
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reaction formation
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Amy, who often feels jealous when her boyfriend talks wiht other girls, so she accuses him of being jealous. This is an example of _________
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projection
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If a person suffers from discomfort most of the time, would this indicate that they might need psychological help?
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yes
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if a person acts in a bizzare manner this would indicate that they might need psychological help?
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yes
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If a person were highly inefficient, would this indicate that they might need psychological help?
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yes
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The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is a book that classifies ____ disorders and describes symptoms of them
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mental
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The main difference between a panic attack and a phobia is that panic attacks are more general and can happen anywhere, phobias are a response to something _________
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specific
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A _______ would be checking twenty times to see if you locked the door
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compulsion
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People who are hypochondriacs complain abou their health because they revieved _____ when they were sick when they were young, shown affection in the past, and spend more time ______ about their health then most people.
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Attention
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People with multiple personality disorders are aware of _______, while schizophrenics often are not
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reality
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Most people how have myltiple personality disorders were _____ as children
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abused
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When people exhibit ____ they talk very quickly, expierence a flight of ideas, and have delusions
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mania
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Someone with a bipolar disorder will have extreme ____ swings, sometimes have _______, and often have several fugue episodes.
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Mood
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Someon who suffers from psychosis will have inappropriate _____
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emotions
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A paranoid schizophrenic will have an excess of the brain chemical ______
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dopamine
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People with personality disorders usually have odd or unpleasant _____ patterns
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personality
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Kubler-Ross's five stages of grieving are: _____, _____, ______, ______, ______
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Denial
Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance |
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two positives alternatives
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approach approach
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two negative alternatives
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avoidance avoidance
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one alternative with both positive and negative points
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approach avoidance
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two alternatives both having positive and negative alternatives
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double approach avoidance
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According to Piaget object permanence is gained during thi stage
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sensori motor stage
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According to Piaget the child is obsessed with sensations and body movement
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sensori motor
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According to Piaget this is the highest level of cognitive development
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formal opperations stage
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_______ is a form of therapy that emphasizes bringing the unconscious feelings into consciousness
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psychoanalysis
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The ________ refers to an emergency where a number of people are observing and doing nothing
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bystander effect
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__________ are used unconsciously to reduce threatening thoughts, protect selves and egos
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defense mechanisms
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________ is not a key to a successful marriage
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strong independence
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____ therapy involves many people working together to solve a common problem
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group
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________ are psychologists that broke away from Freud to emphasize social forces
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Neo-Freudians
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Parents working outside of the house does not effect the attatchment level of a child
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True
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The ______ theory was designed to explain how other people explain the behaviors of others
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attribution
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