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38 Cards in this Set
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During which of Freud's stages of psychosexual development do children become attracted to opposite sex?
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Phallic
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Tendency to experience unpleasant emotions easily?
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Neuroticism
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What is often considered the central concept of Freud's theory?
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Repression
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Psychological disorder involves depression that is so severe its victims suffer from delusions?
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Psychotic Depression
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Intense fear of being in a situation from which immediate escape is not possible?
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Agoraphobia
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Long standing inflexible maladaptive pattern of behaving and relating to others, which usually begins in early childhood or adolscence?
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Personality disorder
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Psych. disorder marked by a loss of contact with reality?
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Schizophrenia or Psychosis
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Alfred Kinsey is known for?
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Conducting the first important survey of human sexual behavior
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Individuals provided with more extrensic motivation than is nedded to complete a task resulting in a decline in intrinsic motivation?
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Drive Reduction
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Make a final decision without giving much thought to it?
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Identity foreclosure
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Maslow's theory considers?
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self-actualization and organization of human motivation
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Attribution that focuses on an individuals ability or personality characteristics?
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Personal
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Individuals with antisocial personality disorders are?
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People who often experience feeling of anger
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The smaller the value of "p". (probability)?
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The more significant the results
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To draw conclusions about a large population from info. about a small sample researchers use?
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Inferential Statistics
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What is standard deviation?
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A measurement of the variation that exists among scores in the normal distribution
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What is the distance between the highest and lowest data points in a set?
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Range
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A diagnosis of schizophrenia typically includes which of the following symptoms?
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Delusions
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A neuron is said to be polarized when?
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It is in a resting state
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A school psychologist informs 9th grade teacher that Jimmy "identifies" with his 12th grade brother. What does Jimmy intend to do?
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Accept his brothers values and imitate his behavior
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True about altruism?
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More likely to be inherited than agressive behavior
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Brain waves during REM sleep look like?
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Rapid low amplitude waves
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Checking coin return every time you pass a pay phone?
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Variable Ratio
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Damage to parietal lobes results in what?
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Reduced sensibility to touch
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What areas of research show girls develop earlier than boys?
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Adolescent physical growth spurt
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When a child thinks that all animals with four legs for ex. would be a dog is?
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Stimulus Generalization
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Bystander effect has been explained by?
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Diffusion of responsibility
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The psychological approach that emphasizes actions and options and considers the importance of objective measurement?
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Humanistic Psychology
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Most influential behaviorist?
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B.F. Skinner
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Who developed the theory of evolution?
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Charles Darwin
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Theory that explores abnormal behavior as learned reactions to environmental influences is?
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The stimulus-response theory
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Method of retrieving info. from memory in which an individual receives valuable hints about material?
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Cued Recall
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What controls long term hunger regulation?
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Leptin
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Young adulthood, the main conflict is?
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Intimacy vs. Isolation
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Hormone for short term hunger regulation?
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Insulin
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What defense mechanism involves diverting a behavior or thought from its regular target to a less threatening one?
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Displacement
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What psychological theory recognizes interpersonal communication between an individual parent, adult, and child states of mind?
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Transactional Analysis
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Who conceived the theory that personality consists of 3 parts, the ego, personal unconscious, collective unconscious?
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Carl Jung
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