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Psychology: modules Test

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Genes
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Memory
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Assimilation
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Researcher Bias
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Placebo
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Crystallized Intelligence
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Biological Perspective
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Life Events
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Post conventional Moral Reasoning
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Structuralism
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Naturalistic Observation
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Recall
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Conservation
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Fluid Intelligence
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Control Group
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Formal Operational Stage
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Social-Cultural Perspective
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Dependent Variable
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Emptying of the Nest
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A nonactive substance or condition.
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Observations may be influenced by what you discover. Bias occurs when any factor unfairly increases the likelihood that the researcher will come to a perticular conclusion.
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One's ability to reason speedily and abstractly; tends to decrease during late adulthood.
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Tasks that give us no clues to jog our memories
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One's accumulated knowledge and verbal skills; tends to increase with age.
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Focus on how thinking and behavior change depending on the setting or situation.
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When children move out of the house
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A technique in which the observer makes no attempt to manipulate or control the situation.
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Interpreting one's new experience in terms of one's existing schemas.
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The biochemical units of heredity that direct how our cells become specialized for various functions during prenatal development.
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Younger people remember things better
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References to universal ethical principles that represent the rights or obligations of all people.
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When we may develop adult thinking and reasoning.
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The participants in an experiment who are not exposed to the independent variable.
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The behavioral or mental process where the impact of the independent variavle is measured.
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A specification of the exact procedures used to make a variable specific and measurable for reaserch purposes
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Family and work-related events-bring major lifestyle alterations.
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The principal that properites such as mass, volume, and a number remain the same despite changes in the forms of objects.
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Attempts to understand behavior by studying the biological structures and substances underlying a given behavior thought or emotion.
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First prominent system for organizing psychological beliefs.
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A research project designed to discover the degree to shich two variables are related to each other.
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The "father" of psychology. Psychology born in 1879.
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The developing human organism from about two weeks after fertilization through the end of the eighth week.
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Alternative systems. The whole is different from the sum of its parts.
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Created an eight-stage theory of social development.
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Focus on how people think-how they take in, process, store, and tetrieve information.
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Attachment and development. Cognitive development-continueous Motor development-stages
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Repeating a research study to see if the results are reliable.
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Thinking that does not blindly accept arguments and conclusions. Rather, it examines assumptions, discerns hidden balues, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
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Emphasized conscious experience

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