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the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake
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basic science
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Eric Erickson's theory of psychosocial development claims that if a young child is praised for her new abilities she will learn..
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autonomy
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in___ studies psychologists study the same group of participants at regular intervals over a period of years
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longitudinal
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the civil rights act of 1964 prohibits discrimination in all areas of employment on the basis of gender, race, color, religion, and national origin |
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cognitive theory states that biological needs drive an organism to act in certain ways |
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the interest is an example of a projective personality test
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false
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a pessimist tends to see the dark side of a situation
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the concept of unconscious determinants of behavior is associated with..
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sigmund freud
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a test that is administered twice to the same person with very different results can not be called..
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reliable
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mentally rearranging the elements of a problem in order to find a new solution is called ...
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recombination
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the interest is an example of a projective personality test
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false
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a pessimist tends to see the dark side of a situation
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the concept of unconscious determinants of behavior is associated with..
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sigmund freud
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a test that is administered twice to the same person with very different results can not be called..
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reliable
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mentally rearranging the elements of a problem in order to find a new solution is called ...
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recombination
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when researchers unwittingly bring about the situation they expected to find, they have created a ...
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self fulfilling prophecy
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the variable that the experimenter changes to observe its effects is the...
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independent variable
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measures how much a person has learned in a given subject or area
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achievement test
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a study of dying and death
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thenatology
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integrates sensory information
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midbrain
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directed thinking is the inability to imagine new functions for familiar objects
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false
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an infant who has developed object permanence knows that an object exists even if it can't be seen
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true
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although case studies do not provide results that lead to theories, they may help generate hypothesis
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true
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when participants illnesss change because they believe a treatment will have an effect, they are exhibiting ..
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the placebo effect
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according to jean piaget, which term refers to a childs attempt to understand something new by finding in to an existing schema
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assimilation
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which of the following is not a type of thinking..
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heuristic
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depressed teenagers generally appear to be..
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angry
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which of the following events does not occur at approximate the same time as the others
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menopause
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metacognition occurs when you think about..
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thinking
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changing and reorganizing the information stored in memory to create new or transform information is called
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thinking
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robert sternberg proposed a diarchic theory of intelligence
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false
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jay w atkinson developed the expectancy value theory to explain goal directed behavior
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true
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the ACT is an example of an aplitude test
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the cannon-bard theory proposed that the brain arouses the body and triggers emotions simultaneously
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howard gardener proposes a theory of mental intelligences
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a hypothesis
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all of the above
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imprinting is
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sudden and can take place in less than a day
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the 1st modern psychologist
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Wilhem Wundt
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the most commonly uses measure of central tendency is the
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mean
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the personality theorist who developed the concept of archetypes in the collective unconscious was..
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carl jung
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dr jones is a psychologist who explains motivation in terms of underlying physiological states. to which theory does dr jones subscribe?
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drive-reduction theory
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the basic belief of ___ is that human behavior develops in response to rewards and punishment received
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behaviorism
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in freuds theory of personality the ___ is the part of personality in touch with reality
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ego
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the hierarchy of needs was developed by
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abraham maslow
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a specific plan for knowig the world
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schema
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desires to belong and give and receive love
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physiological needs
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when an organism responds to a new stimulus that is similar to the original condition
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projective test
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a force-choice test designed to study personality characteristics
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objective test
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an event that, after training, leads to a learned response
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conditioned stimulus
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some suffering from tension headaches might achieve relief through..
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bio-feedback
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a pacifist who has been drafted is against killing yet believes in obeying the law. he or she is probably experiencing..
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cognitive dissonance
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light enters the eye through the..
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pupil
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the most effective approach to getting a message to an audience is
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personal contact
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to play basketball, several response chains are organized into
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response patterns
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the fact that some people are persuaded by a message only after some time has passed is called
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sleep effect
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over justification effect is the excess extrinsic motivation that causes intrinisic motivation to decline
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true
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a social trap occurs when individualsin a group to decide to be altruistic |
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a correlation shows the reinforcement between two thing |
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transforming information so that the brain con process it is called metacognition
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carries impulses from the retina to the brain
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optic nerve
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transmission of characteristics from parents to offspring
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hereditary
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the tendency to marry someone who is from ones own social group is referred to as
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endogamy
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which of the following does not result in forgetting..
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contabulation
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the 3 types of memory are
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sensory, short term long term
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sensations or perceptions with out any external cause are
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hallucinations
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dreams help people unlearn unneeded memories
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francis crick
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experience of conflicting thoughts, attitudes, beliefs, or feelings
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cognitive dissonance
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a type of biological therapy
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drug therapy
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Stanford-Bennett creators of the IQ test
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true
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an insight is a unit of meaning
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false
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**???*** once experienced an image of one self, developed through interaction heritability
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false
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the idea that a persons language influences his/her thoughts is called linguistic relativity
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true
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the pessimistic person is less vulnerable to stress
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false
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when different parts of a test produce similar scores, once compared is known as norms
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false
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some inputs may fade away or encode over time
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false
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a person can overcome rigidity by thinking about and analyzing situations from many perspectives
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true
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an optimist tends to put the best face on any set of events
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true
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group purposes directed toward getting a job done
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task functions
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