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Which perspective focuses on free will and self-actualization? Psychoanalysis Humanism Cognitive perspective Behaviorism

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Humanism

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Who claimed that behavior is affected by reinforcement? William James Sigmund Freud B. F. Skinner Wilhelm Wundt

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B.F. Skinner

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A variable that the experimenter manipulates is called an? Coefficient of correlation Dependent variable Control Condition Independent Variable

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Independent variable

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Pavlov's research demonstrated that?

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Involuntary reaction (salivation) could occur in response to an unrelated stimulus (sound of a bell)

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As a project for a psychology course a student correlated weight and intelligence scores for 250 students. The computed correlation coefficient was.00. What did the scatter plot look like?

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A random distribution of points

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Which treatment approach did Sigmund Freud develop for treating his patients?

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Psychoanalysis

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The belief that the unconscious mind has an influence on ones behavior is part of what early field of psychology?

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Psychoanalysis

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A correlation coefficient is represented by the symbol

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small letter r

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According to present research on psychologists 34% are in the _____ subfield of psychology

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Clinical

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How our minds help us adapt to the world around us was a primary question addressed by which early movement of psychology?

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Functionalism

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"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" statement associated with the ________ perspective

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Gestalt psychologists

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A correlation coefficient represents two things ___ and ____

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Strength and direction of the relationship

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What is one of the major reasons the psychologists use operational definitions?

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So that effects can be measured

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The goals of psychology are to ____?

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Describe, explain, predict, and control behavior

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"All or none" is the principle stating that ________.

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a neuron either fires or does not fire

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After a head injury a person reports that she is unable to see, although her eyes are uninjured. A doctor would suspect an injury in the ________ lobe.

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Occipital

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Eating, drinking, sexual behavior, sleeping, and temperature control are most strongly influenced by the ________.

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Hypothalamus

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Endocrine glands______

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secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream

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GABA functions as

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an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain

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How acetylcholine removed from the synapse

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Broken down by an enzyme

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If you have a problem remembering things that happened a year ago, doctors might check for damage to the ________ area of the brain.

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Hippocampus

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Involuntary muscles are controlled by the ________ nervous system.

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autonomic

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Jerry loves the smell of the grass after it rains. This is a result of his ________ which have received signals from neurons in his sinus cavity.

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olfactory bulbs

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Neurons that carry information from the senses to the spinal cord are called ________.

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sensory neurons

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Pain-controlling chemicals in the body are called____

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endorphins

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Since Norma is a split-brain patient we can infer that she likely has a history of

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severe epilepsy

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The ________ is a structure in the brain stem responsible for life-sustaining functions, such as breathing and heart rate.

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medulla

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The area of the fontal lobe that is devoted to the production of fluent speech is

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Broca's

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The branch of the autonomic nervous system that restores the body to normal functioning after arousal and is responsible for day-to-day functioning of the organs and glands is called the ________.

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parasympathetic nervous system

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The branchlike structures that receive messages from other neurons are called____

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Dendrites

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The charge that a neuron at rest maintains is due to the presence of a high number of ________ charged ions inside the neuron's membrane.

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Negatively

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The outermost part of the brain that is made up of tightly packed neurons and is only a tenth of an inch thick is called the ________.

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cortex

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The thick band of neurons that connects the right and left cerebral hemispheres is called the ________.

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corpus callosum

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Function of myelin?

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Speed up the neural impulse

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According to the opponent-process theory of color vision, the correct pairings of opposite colors are ________.

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red vs green and blue vs yellow

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Activation of the receptors by stimuli is called

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sensation

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Illusion

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a perception that does not correspond to reality

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Analyzing smaller features and building up to a complete perception is called

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bottom up processing

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Continuity

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to perceive things with a continuous pattern rather than with a complex, broken-up pattern

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Each retina of the eye has about _____ million rods

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120

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Ernest weber provided formulation that is used to determine the

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Smallest detectable difference between two stimuli

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Figure-ground concern

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The tendency to perceive objects or figures on some background

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If an artist were to blend red, green, and blue lights together by focusing lights of those three colors on one common spot, the result would look ________.

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like white light

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If you were to take a sparkler at a July 4th picnic and "draw" your name in the air, your ability to see the light trail after the initial stimulus is facilitated by:

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persistence

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In the process known as ________, sensory receptors become less sensitive to repeated presentations of the same stimulus.

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sensory adaptation

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Nerve hearing impairment can be best treated with

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cochlear implants

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Perception is the

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process by which people take all the sensations they experience at any given moment and interpret them in some meaningful fashion

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Pitch is to frequency as

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loudness is to amplitude

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Somasthetic senses involve all of the following except ________.

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taste

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The ability to see the world in three dimensions is called

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depth perception

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the best explanation of the moon illusion is

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the apparent distance hypothesis

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The average threshold for human vision is a candle flame seen from ____ on a dark clear night

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30 miles

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The fovea is made up of

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all cones and no rods

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The lowest stimulus intensity required for detection is the ________ and the smallest noticeable difference between a standard stimulus intensity and another stimulus value is the ________.

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absolute threshold and just noticeable difference

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What are the hammer anvil and stirrup

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tiny bones located in the middle ear

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the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Psychology

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Outward or overt actions and reactions

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behavior

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internal, covert activity of our minds

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mental processes

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focused on the structure or basic elements of the mind

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structuralism

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Margaret Washburn

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first woman to earn a Ph.D. in psychology

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how the mind allows people to adapt live work and play

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Functionalism

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The science of behavior the focuses on observable behavior only must be directly seen and measured

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Behaviorism

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modern version of psychoanalysis

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psychodynamic perspective

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