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98 Cards in this Set
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Operational definition |
A carefully worded statement describing the exact procedures for measuring an anticipated outcome |
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Ethics of placing the well-being of humans above that of animals |
A central issue that emerges in debates over experimenting on animals |
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Positive correlation |
Direct relationship in which two factors increase or decrease together |
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Behavioral |
Akira believes that her son has become a good student |
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Critical thinking |
A questioning attitude regarding psychologists assumptions and hidden values best illustrates |
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Hidesight bias |
A researcher gives half the members of a group a true psychological finding and the other half the opposite result. |
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Observable behavior |
Beginning in the 1920s |
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Learning and adaption |
By suggesting that nurture works on what nature provides |
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Humanistic psychology |
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow |
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Common underlying principles |
Depression and suicide |
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Industrial-organizational |
Dr. Lipka focuses on ways |
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Personality psychology |
Dr. Roberts studies |
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Developmental |
Dr. Santaniello conducts |
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An unscientific method |
Early behaviorists |
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Selective attention |
A bank teller was so distracted by the sight od a bank robbers weapon |
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Neurotransmitters and depression |
A biological psychologist would be most interested in |
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Sexual motivation |
A brain tumor caused |
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Erotic wishes |
According to Freud, the dreams of adults |
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Plasticity |
After Clark's left hand was amputated |
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Parasympathetic nervous system |
After discovering that the shadows outside his window |
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Circadian Rhythm |
Alexis most enjoys talking and socializing with friends late in the evening |
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Hypnagogic sensations |
A minute or two after falling asleep |
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Extension of a neuron that carries messages away from the cell body |
An axon |
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Dopamine |
Animal research has revealed a general reward system |
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Depression |
Undersupply of serotonin |
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Verbally report that she saw a boy |
A picture of a dog is briefly flashed in the left visual field of a splitbrain patient |
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More neurons to fire, and to fire more often |
A slap on the back vs a pat on the back |
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Temporal |
Auditory stimulation is processed in the ______ lobes |
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Insecure attachment |
Aaron cried when his mother left him |
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Stress hormones |
Abuse victims are at considerable risk for depression |
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Preconventional |
According to kohlberg, morality |
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Adjusting current schemas to make sense of new experiences |
According to Piaget, accommodation |
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Sensorimotor |
According to Piaget, a person develops |
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Stable over time |
A childs temperment is likely to be |
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Career choices; clothing preferences |
Adolescents are most likely to be influenced by their parents |
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Individualism |
Adolescents search for identitiy |
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An epigentic effect |
Alchohol may cause fetal damage |
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Emerging adulthood |
A period from about age 18 to the mid-twenties |
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An automatic response to sensory stimulation |
A reflex |
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All of these things |
As men advance through middle adulthood |
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Basic trust |
At 15 months, Justin |
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Rite of passage |
An elborate ceremony used to celebrate a persons |
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Social script |
A culturally modeled guide |
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Decreased; decreased |
Adult men who suffer castration typically |
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Less physically attractive |
After viewing X-rated films |
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Physical or verbal behavior intended to hurt someone |
Aggression |
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Condoms provide complete protection against certain infections such as herpes |
A highschool teacher is giving a lecture |
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An X; either an X or a Y |
A mothers contribution to an offsprings two sex chromo |
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More;less |
A power hungry female politician |
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Decreases; decreases |
As estrogen and testosterone levels |
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Gender roles |
At the beginning of the twentieth century |
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Role |
Behaviors, attitudes, and traits |
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Gender schemas |
Children tend to organize their worlds into male and female |
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Small |
Compared with boys, girls are |
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Less; more |
Compared with the average woman |
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More; less |
During late and middle adulthood |
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Green light are turned off by red |
According to the opponent process theory |
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Cataract |
A clouding of the eyes |
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Electrical signals |
A cochlear implant |
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Sensory adaption |
After gazing at an angry face, you immediately |
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Embodied cognition |
After holding a warm drink rather than a cold one |
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Increase; endorphins |
After recieving a placebo said to reduce the pain of her sprained ankle |
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Perceptual adaption |
Although he was wearing a pair of glasses |
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Context effects |
Although Sue Yen sees her chemisty |
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During; no longer hypnotized |
A posthypnotic suggestion |
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Top-down processing |
A softball may appear smaller to batters |
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Size constancy |
As the retinal image of a horse galloping toward you |
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Fragrant odors |
Due to the brians circuitry, memories |
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Smaller |
Because she mistakenly thought she was much closer |
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Perceptual set |
After learning that her new college roommate had experienced |
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External influences |
According to B. F. Skinner, human |
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Discrimination |
A child who is punished for swearing |
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Conditioned stimulus |
A dog salivates to the sound of a tone |
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Spontantous recovery |
After a scary biking accident, Alex |
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Generalization |
After learning to fear a white rat |
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Operant conditioning |
A learned association between behaviors |
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Classical conditioning |
A learned association between to stimuli |
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Classical; operant conditioning |
An involuntary response is to |
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An organisms expectations that a US will follow a CS |
A psychologist who emphasizes cognitive |
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Continuous reinforcement followed by partial renforcement |
A response is learned most rapidly |
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Chamber containing a bar or key |
A skinner box |
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Shaping |
Because mr. Baron rewards students only for very good answers |
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Netural stimulus |
Before Pavlov conditioned a dog to salivate |
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Cognitive processes |
Behavorism was the view |
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Explicit |
A conscious memory |
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Source amnesia |
After attending group therapy |
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The misinformation effect |
After falling in love with Jill, Derrick |
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Recency |
After hearing a list of items |
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State-dependant memory |
After his last drinking spreee |
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Reconsolidation |
After research participants have retrieved |
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At the beginning |
A full week after Usha heard her mother |
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Memory consolidation |
A good nights sleep |
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Infantile amnesia |
A lack of conscious memories |
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Memory aid |
A mnemonic |
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Sensory |
An iconic memory |
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Amnesia |
An inability to retrieve info learned in the past |
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The testing effect |
Answering questions about what she had read |
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Encoding meaning |
Children can better remember an ancient latin verse |
