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Where was psychology born, and in what year?
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Germany, 1879
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What school of thought dealt with mental testing, stream of conciousness, adaption to environment, and was learned from Darwin?
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Functionalism
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Who developed unconcious motivation?
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Freud
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What school of thought was optimistic, and looked at the individuality of people and ideas?
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Humanistic
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What branch of psychology tried to solve practical problems after WW1?
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Applied Psychology
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What does cognitive psychology deal with?
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thought and strategies
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Adaptive value of species...
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Evolutionary
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What is psychometrics?
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psychological testing
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What field deals with job perfomance and job satisfaction?
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industrial/organizational
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What does Empiricism mean?
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knowledge aquired to through observation
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What is theory?
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ideas and hypothesis, instead of observation
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What do researchers do in order to avoid being too subjective?
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follow scientific method
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When you change your answer on a multiple choice test your usually changing a wrong answer to a right answer!
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TRUE
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Before answering a multiple choice question....
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read all possible answers
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Being able to apply/working toward goal reasoning is....
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critical thinking
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What school of thought believes psychology is imperical?
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Behaviorists
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What are the goals of research science?
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measurement and description, understanding and prediction, application and control
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What is a hypothesis?
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a prediction about human behavior
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What type of method would you use if your trying to get attitudes of people?
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survey or questioniere
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What is the difference between experiment and control group?
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exp- gets manipulated by the experiment
cont- isolate effect of independent variable on dependent variable- no manipulation |
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What is the extraneous variable?
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extraneous variable influences dependent variable; at the same time independent variable influences the dependent variable also.
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What is meant in positive relationship/correlation between two variables?
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two variables going the same direction
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What is naturalistic observation?
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the outside view of actual observation, not involved, but participatory
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Quasi?
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Can't manipulate factors in actual experiment
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What is a placebo?
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fake treatment thats ineffective, but subject still thinks it has response.
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What is experimenter bias?
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researchers expectations or preferences about the outcome of a study influence the results obtained.
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What section of the journal article does statistical analysis occur?
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Results
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in an experiment if physical exercise effects a persons mood what is the dependent variable?
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the persons mood
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What is social desirable responding?
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the tendency to give socially approved answers to questions about oneself
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What changes occur in neuro impulse charge?
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becomes less negative or even positive
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What part of the brain controls reflexes like sneezing, coughing, salivating?
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Hind brain
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What controls breathing and circulation?
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Medula
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What part of frontal lobe affects production of speech?
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Broca's area
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Where does the production of language take place?
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left hemisphere
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Where does the development of sex character in puberty take place?
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banantrophins
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research in environment/ nature vs. nurture
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in rats, the brains were heavier and more enriched
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What was found in animal research?
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its extreme
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How do neurons communicate?
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one neuron to another neuron
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What is info carried in?
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neurotransmitters
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What are the effects of electric stimulationon, when rewarding the brain, what neurotransmitter was released?
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dopamine
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what are responsible for hereditary transmission?
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genes
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what is a genotype?
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genetic material is the same (ex. identical twins)
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Schizophrenia is inherited by what?
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predispostition (environment interacts with heredity)
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What is fitness?
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Reproductive success; # of descendants or success in relation to rest of population
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What conclusions were made about studies on hemispheres of the brain?
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they are overgeneralized
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