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Professor Lucas' Cumulative Final - David Myers Psychology 9th Edition

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View that psych 1) should be an objective science that 2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes.   show
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Type of psych that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth.   show
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Interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition.   show
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Cognitive Neuroscience includes these 4 things: P, T, M, & L.   show
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Science of mental processes and behavior.   show
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Longstanding controversy over the contributions that _______ and experience make to the development of psychological traits and ________.   show
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Differing complementary views for analyzing any given phenomenon.   show
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What are the 3 levels of analysis?   show
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show Biopsychosocial Approach  
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show Basic Research  
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show Applied Research  
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show Clinical Psychology  
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show Psychiatry  
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show Hindsight Bias  
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show Critical Thinking  
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Explanation using integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.   show
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show Hypothesis  
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show Operational Definition  
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show Operational Definition  
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show Replication  
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All the cases in a group being studied, from which samples may be drawn.   show
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show Random Sample  
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show Naturalistic Observation  
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Measure of the extent two factors vary together, and thus how well each factor predicts the other.   show
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show Illusory Coefficient  
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show Experiment  
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Experimental results caused by expectations alone; caused by the administration of an inert substance, where recipient assumes is an active agent.   show
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show Experimental Group  
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Group not exposed to treatment.   show
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show Independent Variable  
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show Dependent Variable  
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Most frequently occurring score in a distribution.   show
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show Standard Deviation  
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show Normal Curve  
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Enduring behaviors/ideas/attitudes/traditions shared by a large group of people generation to generation.   show
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show Biological Psych  
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Nerve cell; basic building block of the nervous system.   show
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show Sensory Neurons  
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____ _____ carry outgoing info from brain and spinal cord to muscles and glands.   show
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______ are within the brain and spinal cord that communicate internally and intervene between sensory inputs and motor outputs.   show
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show Dendrite  
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show Axon  
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show Myelin Sheath  
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show Action Potential  
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Level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse.   show
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Between the axon tip of the sending neuron and the dendrite/cell body receiving neuron.   show
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Chemical messengers that travel synaptic gap between neurons. Determine whether a neuron will generate a neural impulse.   show
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show Re-uptake  
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Central Nervous System is made up of:   show
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show Peripheral Nervous System  
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Bundled axons connecting CNS w/ muscles/glands/sense organs.   show
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Division of peripheral nervous system controlling body's skeletal muscles.   show
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Division of peripheral nervous system controlling glands & muscles of internal organs. Sympathetic division; arouses, Parasympathetic division; calms.   show
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show Sympathetic Nervous System  
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Calms   show
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show Endocrine System  
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Pair of endocrine glands just above the kidneys - help arouse body in times of stress.   show
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show Pituitary Gland  
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show Brainstem  
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show Medulla  
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show Reticular formation  
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show Thalamus  
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show Cerebellum  
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Neural system between cerebral hemispheres - emotions and drives.   show
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Linked to emotion.   show
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Below thalamus - directs maintenance activities (eating/drinking/temperature), linked to emotion + reward.   show
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show Cerebral Cortex  
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Involved with speaking, muscle movement, making plans/judgements - just behind forehead.   show
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Receives sensory input for touch + body position - top of the head towards rear.   show
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show Occipital Lobes  
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show Temporal Lobes  
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Controls voluntary movements - rear of frontal lobes.   show
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show Sensory Cortex  
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Involved in higher mental functions (learning/remembering/speaking/thinking), not primary motor sensory functions.   show
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show Corpus Callosum  
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show Consciousness  
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Interdisciplinary study of brain activity linked with cognition.   show
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show Inattentional Blindness  
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show Behavior Genetics  
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All nongenetic influences.   show
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Made of DNA and containing genes.   show
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Biochemical units of heredity making up chromosomes.   show
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Instructions for making an organism - including all genetic material in that organism's chromosomes.   show
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show Evolutionary Psychology.  
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Prescribe proper behavior - understood rule for accepted/expected behavior.   show
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show Individualism  
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show Collectivism  
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Promotes growth of male sex organs.   show
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show Role  
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show Gender Typing  
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show Social Learning Theory  
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Fertilized egg (_____), develops into an _____.   show
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Decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.   show
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show Cognition  
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Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas.   show
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Adapting one's current understandings to incorporate new info.   show
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show Sensorimotor Stage  
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show Object Permanence  
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show Preoperational Stage  
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show Egocentrism  
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People's ideas about their own + others' mental states - about their feelings/perceptions/thoughts - and the behaviors these might predict.   show
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Stage when children gain the mental operations that enable them to think logically about concrete events. (7-11yrs)   show
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Stage when people begin thinking logically about abstract concepts. (12+yrs)   show
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Optimal period shortly after birth when organism's exposure to certain stimuli or experiences produces proper development.   show
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show Basic Trust  
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Non-reproductive sexual characteristics (female breasts/hips, male voice)   show
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One's sense of self.   show
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show Longitudinal Study  
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show Crystallized Intelligence  
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Ability to reason speedily + abstractly; decreases w/ age.   show
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show Perception  
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show Bottom-Up Processing  
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show Top-Down Processing  
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Often unconscious activation of certain associations, thus predisposing one's perceptions/memory/response.   show
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show Weber's LAw  
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Diminished sensitivity as a consequence of constant stimulation.   show
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Light enters through this adjustable opening in the eye.   show
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show Iris  
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Changes shape to focus images on the retina.   show
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show Retina  
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Retinal receptors detecting black/grey/white, necessary for peripheral + twilight vision.   show
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show Cones  
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Nerve carrying neural impulses from eye to brain.   show
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Where optic nerve leaves eye, ____ ____ forms. = no receptor cells there.   show
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show Fovea  
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show Opponent-Process Theory  
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Tube in inner ear where sound waves trigger nerve impulses.   show
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Hearing theory that links pitch we here with the place where cochlea's membrane is stimulated.   show
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show Frequency Theory  
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show Vestibular Sense  
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show Phi Phenomenon  
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Branch of psych exploring how people interact with machines.   show
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Relatively permanent change in an organism's behavior due to experience.   show
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show Classical Conditioning  
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show Associative Learning  
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show Unconditioned Response (UR):Salivating when food is in mouth.  
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Stimulus naturally + automatically triggering a response.   show
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Learned response to previously neutral (but now conditioned) stimulus (CS).   show
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Originally irrelevant stimulus, after association w/ an (US) triggers (CR).   show
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show Acquisition  
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show Generalization  
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show Operant Conditioning  
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Behavior operating on environment, producing consequences.   show
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Thorndike's principle for behaviors followed by favorable consequences to become more likely, & vice-verse.   show
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show Primary Reinforcer  
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show Fixed-Ratio Schedule  
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show Variable-Ratio Schedule  
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show Fixed-Interval Schedule  
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Reinforces response at unpredictable time intervals.   show
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Learning that occurs but not apparent until there's an incentive for it to be demonstrated.   show
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show Intrinsic Motivation  
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Desire to perform behavior to receive promised rewards/avoid threatened punishment.   show
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show Modeling  
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Tendency for distributed study or practice to yield better long-term retention that is achieved through massed study or practice.   show
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Memory retention independent of conscious recollection.   show
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Memory of facts/experiences that one consciously knows.   show
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show Hippocampus  
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1) Retrieve info prev. learned 2) Identify info previously learned   show
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Tendency to recall experiences consistent w/ one's current good/bad mood.   show
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show Proactive Interference  
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show Retroactive Interference  
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A mental image/best example of a category.   show
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show Heuristic  
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Inability to see a problem from new perspective by employing different mental set.   show
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show Phoneme  
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Smallest unit carrying meaning in language. (Exp. Prefix)   show
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Rule set we derive meaning from words/sentences/morphemes.   show
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show Semantics  
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Rules for combining words into grammatically correct sentences in a lang.   show
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show Aphasia  
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show Broca's Area  
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Controls language reception. (Language comprehension + expression, left temporal lobe)   show
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show Intelligence  
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show Validity  
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show Content Validity  
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show Predictive Validity  
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Predictive Validity is assessed by:   show
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Response of whole organism involving physiological arousal/expressive behaviors/conscious experience.   show
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show James-Lange Theory  
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show Cannon-Bard Theory  
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show 2-Factor Theory  
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show Catharsis  
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show Relieves aggressive urges.  
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Self-perceived happiness/satisfaction w/ life.   show
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Tendency to form judgements relative to a neutral level defined by prior experiences.   show
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show Relative Deprivation  
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Process we perceive & respond to stressors we appraise threatening/challenging.   show
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General Adaptation Syndrome(GAS): concept of body's adaptive response to stress in 3 phases: A, R, E   show
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show Coping  
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Indv's characteristic pattern of thinking/feeling/acting.   show
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Id, Ego, or Superego operates as the conscience?   show
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Oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital =?   show
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When id's pleasure-seeking Es focus on distinct erogenous zones.   show
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process children incorporate parents' values into their developing superegos.   show
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Jung -> concept: shared inherited reservoir of memory traces from our species' history.   show
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Motivation to fulfill potential.   show
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Attitude of total acceptance toward another person. (Rogers)   show
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Characteristic pattern of behavior/disposition to act as assessed by self-report inventories + peer reports.   show
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views behavior as influenced by interaction between people's traits and their social context.   show
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