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What was the primary technique Wilhelm Wundt used to study consciousness ?
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He used introspection
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Structuralism focused on the basic elements of consciousness, whereas Gestalt Psychology focus on what?
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How hole patterns and forms are perceived.
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Which early School of Psychology had as its focus the study of how human and animals behave in their environment?
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Functionalism
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The major emphasis of psychoanalysis is what?
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The unconscious
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Among other things, cognitive psychologists are interested in what?
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Information processing
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Humanistic psychology emerged as a reaction against:
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Behaviorism and psycho- analysis
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Which of the following shows the goals of psychology in order as their ambitiousness?
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Description, explanation, prediction, control, and improving the quality of life
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If you have a hunch that vitamin C enhances IQ and you intend to research it, your prediction is called what?
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A hypothesis
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What type of correlation would we expect to find between time spent studying and grades in school?
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Positive correlation
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What is the key advantage of the experimental method?
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That it allows for direct cause - effect conclusions
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You understand the criminal mind, you might study one criminal, like the Unibomber, in great detail. Extensive interviews, questionnaires, and psychological tests might provide interesting information about the mental processing and such a person. Would this be a laboratory study and naturalistic observation study a case study or survey study?
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A case study
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Professor Merrill is conducting an experiment on the effectiveness of hypnosis as a treatment for smoking. Working with a large group of smokers, have are given hypnosis and half are not. Each person is interviewed one week later to determine if his or her smoking has decreased. In this example, the smokers who did not receive hypnosis were in the what group? Cool study group, control group, experimental group, or correlation group.
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Control group
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the other people complex occurs during which stage? Anal stage, phallic stage, genital stage, or oral stage.
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Phallic stage
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What is the correct order for Piaget's developmental stages?
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Sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational
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Daisy, a young adult, is most likely to be dealing with which of Erikson's stages? Identity vs role confusion, generativity vs. Stagnation, intimacy vs isolation, or integrity versus despair.
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Intimacy vs isolation
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The child who says Jimmy took is probably at what stage? Oral stage, two word stage, sensorimotor, or telegraphic?
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Two-word stage
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An infant who says ball to mean look at the ball is using? A holophase, telegraphic speech, overregularization, or overextension?
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holophase
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Kohlberg's conception of morality centers on the person's: conscience, super ego, stage of cognitive development, or moral reasoning?
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Moral reasoning
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A child who is able to recognize that the f mouth of water ports on a talk last into a shorter, why glass is still the same amount of water, is using the law of: conservation, centration, animism, or reversibility?
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Law of conservation
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According to Piaget, children first show object permanence during the: sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, formal operational stage, or concrete operational stage?
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The sensorimotor stage
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Which of the following is an example of a domestic spanking? People are just better educated and less well behaved and other animals, I like dogs better than cats, daddy that means sidewale tripped me, or listen mommy I can growl like a tiger- grrr?
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Daddy that mean sidewale tripped me
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Research that attempt to determine the age at which the average person developes in some specific area are called: time-based, normative, experimental, or longitudinal?
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Normative
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According to Erikson, infancy is to trust vs mistrust as late childjoof is to: intimacy vs isolation, identity vs role confusion, integrity versus despair, or generativity vs. Stagnation?
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Integrity versus despair according to Kubler - Ross, the first psychological stage of dying is depression, denial, acceptance, anger
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A three year old child who goes shopping with his mother and sister on buying his father a toy truck for his birthday. This is an example of developmental delay, selfishness, egocentrism, or animism ?
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It is an example of egocentrism
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According to kubler-ross, the first psychological stage of dying is: depression, denial, acceptance, or anger?
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Denial
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The central nervous system is composed of: the brain only, nurse controlling movement, brain and spinal cord, or afferent and efferent nerves?
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The brain and spinal cord
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The somatic and autonomic nervous system are part of which of the following system: peripheral, central, endocrine, or limbic system?
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They are part of the peripheral system
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In general, this is sympathetic division of an autonomic nervous system is most active during: relaxation, replenishing reserves of energy, fight or flight emergencies, or normal digestion?
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Fight or flight emergencies
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The junction where the axon of a spending uron communicates with receiving neurons is called the: receptor site, the synapse, the reuptake site, or axon terminal?
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synapse
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when the graded potential in a neuron builds up to a certain threshold the result is: breakdown of the cell nucleus, internal combustion, an action potential, or a relative refractory period?
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Action potential
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This area of the brain controls language in most people and is good with math, logic, analytical processing, and step by step function. It is the: left hemisphere, brain them, midbrain, or right hemisphere?
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Left hemisphere
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What system is made up of ductless gland located in many parts of the body that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream: Hormonal system, adrenal system, nervous system, or endocrine system?
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Endocrine system
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The master gland is the what gland: adrenal, pituita thyroid, or pancreas?
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pituitary gland
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What is the part of the brain that contain centers for emotional behavior and basic motivational urges, is it: reticular formation, hypothalamus, limbic system or old brain, or is it the hippocampus?
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Limbic system or old brain
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What part of the brain is surgically severed in the split brain operation is it: the corpus collosum, frontal lobe, pons and medulla, or hindbrain and midbrain?
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Corpus collosum
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Where is the main function of the brain that excites smooth, still movement and to regulate muscle tone and posture is it: hypothalamus, ponds, medulla, or the cerebellum?
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Cerebellum
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Freud argued that sex and aggression are the primary determinant of human behavior true or false
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True
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When we collect data and simply state what we see or hear then we are describing rather than explaining true or false
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True
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An infants babbling reflect only the sounds of the language he hears us around him true or false
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false
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William James believed that consciousness is best described as a string true or false
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True
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John Watson argued that consciousness is best described as consisting of images, sensations, and feelings true or false
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false
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The two stage of language development refers to the period in which children have a vocabulary of two words true or false
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false
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Children learn conservation during Piagets preoperational stage true or false
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False
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According to Freud, boys experience the Oedipus complex and girls experience the Electra complex during the genital stage true or false
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False
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Neurotransmitter substances are to be found in the synaptic vesicle true or false
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True
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The speech area is generally found on the right side of the brain true or false
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False
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Electrically charged particles that are present inside and outside the neuron are called pons true or false
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True
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One major difference between Erikson's theory and Freud's is at Erikson focused more on developing person's relationship to other people true or false
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True
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