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| What is psychology? | show 🗑
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| What are the goals of psychology? | show 🗑
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| Cognitive approach | show 🗑
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| show | A focus on the body, especially the brain and nervous system
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| show | Emphasizes the scientific study of observable behavioral responses and their environmental determinants
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| Psychodynamic approach | show 🗑
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| show | Behavioral approach
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| Determining what social factors lead to depression in adolescence is an example of which goal of psychology? | show 🗑
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| Ivan Pavlov, B.F. Skinner, and John Watson are key figures in the _______ approach. | show 🗑
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| Trying to get your roommate to be neater is an example of which goal of psychology? | show 🗑
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| What is the scientific method? | show 🗑
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| What is a hypothesis? | show 🗑
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| Advantages of surveys | show 🗑
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| Disadvantages of surveys | show 🗑
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| show | Shows how different factors vary or are similar, good for lots of data and to show different patterns of different factors
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| Disadvantages of correlational studies | show 🗑
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| Advantages of Experiments | show 🗑
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| show | May not be the same conclusion as you thought, experiment might go wrong somehow, etc.
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| show | Shows how people act in real life, get the straight truth about something
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| Disadvantages of observations | show 🗑
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| Independent variables | show 🗑
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| Dependent variables | show 🗑
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| show | A group in the research study whose experience is manipulated
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| Control groups | show 🗑
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| Sample | show 🗑
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| show | A substance having no pharmacological effect but given merely to satisfy a patient who supposes it to be a medicine.
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| Random assignment/random sample | show 🗑
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| show | Experiments
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| The variable that is controlled by the experimenter is the ________ | show 🗑
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| show | Survey
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| If, when variable A increases, variable B also increases, we say that there is a __________ correlation | show 🗑
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| show | Biological
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| She must have had a very difficult childhood, with a remote and distant father and a domineering mother. | show 🗑
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| Don't pay any attention to his temper tantrums and they will stop. | show 🗑
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| show | Psychodynamic
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| My girlfriend dumped me: I will probably never find anyone else. | show 🗑
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| Give her a dollar for every A on her report card and she will shape up. | show 🗑
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| He is just a teenager with raging hormones. | show 🗑
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| show | Cognitive
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| show | Psychodynamic
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| I guess I just don't deserve to have any success in life | show 🗑
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| I exercise and I don't eat much; it's a glandular problem | show 🗑
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| show | Behavioral
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| show | Cognitive
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| What is the structure of a nerve cell? | show 🗑
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| show | The nucleus/cell body sends a nerve impluse down the axon and eventually makes a chemical transmission
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| Occipital Lobe | show 🗑
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| Temporal Lobe | show 🗑
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| show | The part of the cerebral cortex just behind the forehead that is involved in the control of voluntary muscles, intelligence, and personality
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| show | Area of the cerebral cortex at the top of the head that is involved in registering spatial location, attention, and motor control
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| Left side of the brain | show 🗑
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| Right side of the brain | show 🗑
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| Corpus callosum | show 🗑
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| show | The lowest portion of the brain, consisting of the medulla, cerebellum, and pons
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| show | Located between the hindbrain and the forebrain, a region in which many nerve-fiber systems ascend and descend to connect the higher and lower portions of the brain
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| show | The highest level of the brain. Key structures in the forebrain are the limbic system, thalamus, basal ganglia, hypothalamus, and cerebral cortex
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| What did psychologists learn from the case study of Phineas Gage? | show 🗑
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| The lobe of the brain that governs movement of the voluntary muscles is the _____ | show 🗑
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| Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that send messages across the ___________ to the next neuron | show 🗑
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| The language centers are primarily in the ______ lobe of the brain | show 🗑
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| show | Occipital
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| What is developmental psychology? | show 🗑
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| show | Height, weight, acne, facial hair, etc.
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| What are some of the cognitive changes that occur in late adulthood? | show 🗑
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| show | Formal Operational
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| What stage of social emotional development did Eriksen say that adolescents experience? | show 🗑
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| An infant's tendency to put objects into his/her mouth is part of the _______ stage of cofnitive development, according to Piaget? | show 🗑
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| show | 2 years
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| A concept or framework for organizing information is a ____________ according to Piaget | show 🗑
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| ______ is a landmark achievement of the sensorimotor stage of development. | show 🗑
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| show | Middle adulthood
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| Trust vs. mistrust is usually encountered by people in the ___________ stage of development | show 🗑
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| show | How do we take a new phenomina and put that into an already existing schema
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| Accommidation | show 🗑
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| Sensorimotor stage | show 🗑
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| show | Thought becomes more symbolic than in the sensorimotor stage but the child cannot yet perform operations
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| Concrete operational stage | show 🗑
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| show | Thinking becomes more abstract, idealistic, and logical
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| show | Ages 0-1 1/2
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| Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt | show 🗑
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| show | Ages 3-5
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| Industry vs. Inferiority | show 🗑
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| show | Ages 10-20
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| Intimacy vs. Isolation | show 🗑
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| show | Ages 40-59
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| show | Ages 60-death
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