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Psychology is formally defined as? |
Ths scientific study of behavior and mental processes. |
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What best represents psychology's basic goal |
Describe, explain, predict, and influence behavior. |
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What had the greatest impact on the emergence of psychology as a seperate scientific discipline? |
Physiology |
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What do most historians consider to mark the formal beginning of psychology as a seperate scientific discipline |
The establishment of the first psychology research laboratory by Wilhelm wundt in 1879. |
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The early psychological school called structuralism emphasized the study of |
The element components of sensation, feeling, and conscious experience. |
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____ is to structuralism as ____ is to functionalism |
Edward titchener; william james |
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Cognitive and behavioral perspective share. |
An empirical franework |
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Dr. Bargin is a psychologist who helps people develop choices and self direction in striving to reach their fullest potential. Wha perspective of psychology? |
Humanistic |
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My goal is to siscover hoelw behavior is acquired in response to environmental influences who? |
John B watson |
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Akey figures in the development of behaviorism include |
Watson, pavlov, and skinner |
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The ____ perspective emphasizes studying the physical bases of human and animal behavior, including the nervous system and genetics |
Biological |
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Introspection is most closely associated with what psychological perspective. |
Structuralism |
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If you want to understand how people think, understand, and know about the world, then you should research from the _____ |
Cognitive perspective |
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Behaviorism was characterized by |
The rejection of conciousness as a topic in psychology and a focus upon observable behavior. |
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Two key figures in the development of humanistic psychology include |
Araham maslow and carl rogers |
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The ____ perspective of psychology emphasizes the importancr of unconscious influences and early lif experiences in explaning the underlying dynamics of behavior |
Humanistic |
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Empirical evidence refers to evidence that is the result of |
Observation, measurement, and experimentation. |
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A representative sample is a |
Group of subejcts that closely parallels the larger group to be studied on all relevant characteristics, such as age, sex, and race. |
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A correlation coefficient is |
A numericak indicator of the degree of genetic relatedness among members of the same family. |
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Positive correlation |
A link between 2 variables one affects the other |
