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In extrinsic motivation, a person is motivated:

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To work for an outcome that is separate or external from themselves

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Claire is intrinsically motivated to play tennis, what does that mean

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Claire enjoys exercise and the game because it is enjoyable to her

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People driven by the need for ___ have a strong desire to attain both realistic goals and very challenging ones.

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Achievement

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According to Charles Dweck Research, people who believe that there lives are controlled by others more powerful than them, or believe in luck or fate are most likely

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External locus of control

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A ___ motive such as curiosity, appears to be unlearned but causes an increase in stimulation

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stimulus

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Many arousal theorists believe that a ___ level of arousal is optimal for most people under normal circumstances

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moderate

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According to Maslow, peak experiences are

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time in a persons life where self- actualization is temporarily achieved.

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Theorists that along with his/ her colleagues, has suggested a modification for Maslows hierarchy of needs that incorporates aspects of evolutionary biology, anthropology, and psychology

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Douglas Kenrick

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Physiological factor in causing hunger

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Insulin is released, causing blood glucose levels to drop

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Even if Lily eats breakfast she is still hungry at noon, this is an example of

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Classical conditioning

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Obesity is a condition in which the body weight of a person is ____ percent or more over the ideal body weight for that person's height

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20- 30 %

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The physical arousal of emotion is created by the

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sympathetic nervous system

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Physiological arousal the body may experience due to experiencing an emotion

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elevated heart rate

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Part of the brain associated with emotions, such as fear and pleasure in both humans and animals

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amygdala

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According to LeDoux's research, it is possible that people with emotional disorders may be processing stimuli mainly through the ___ route, resulting in difficulty or inability to control emotions or to override fears.

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subcortical

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According to the James-Lange theory of emotion, a physiological response to a stimulus is caused by the arousal of the:

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Sympathetic nervous system

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Liam was confronted by a large, salivating dog. According to the Cannon bard theory, liam experienced:

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fear and bodily reactions at the same time

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Primary Sex Characteristics:

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are directly involved in human reproduction

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Characteristics that distinguish the male from the female and acts as attractants to the members of the opposite sex to ensure reproduction are:

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Secondary sex characteristics

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The expectations of one's culture, the development of one's personality, and one's sense of identity are all affected by:

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Gender

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Culture that is very accepting of the winkte, giving them important roles in their social structure

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Native American Tribes

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Freud believed that children learned their gender identities by

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resolving the sexual conflicts of early childhood

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Rebecca is the youngest child in her family with four older brothers. She has a female friend over and wants to drive remote- controlled cars. Her friend says "Girls don't play with cars, i do not want to play with cars, I want to play with dolls." From then on Rebecca will only play with dolls, this is an example of;

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Social Learning Theory

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Which of the following is a "relate" style of communication?

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A women is talking to her friend about her frustrations with disciplining her two year old. Her friend says " I know how you feel, I went through the same thing."

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Ali invites his friends to his man cave and they talk about cars and manly things, with ali and one or two others interrupting and attempting to dominate the conversation. This style is referred to as ___ talk

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report

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Michael and Janice start to feel different as they continue to make out. Their breathing quickens their pulse rate increases, genitals begin to swell, and nipples harden. They are in the ___ stage of Master's and Johnsons's sexual- response cycle.

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excitement

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According to the Master's and Johnson's sexual- response cycle, what would a male experience during the excitement phase?

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The penis becomes erect, the testes pull up, and the skin of the scrotum tightens.

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One of the most important studies of human sexual behavior was conducted by ___

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Alfred Kinsey

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According to Robert Trivers, the primary factor that explains why men are so much more sexually active than women are:

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Parental Investment

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In a national survey, more women than men considered themselves to be:

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Bisexual

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Organic factors, sociocultural factors, and psychological factors influence:

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Sexual dysfunction

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Of the following STI's which of the following is a viral infection

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Genital Warts

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Which of the following is not a mechanism where HIV can be transferred

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kissing the lips of an infected person

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_____ is the of behavioral and mental processes in the context of the world in which we exist,as we are surrounded by others whom we are connected and by whom we are influenced

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Social psychology

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In Asch's line experiment, participants:

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conformed to the group answer slightly more than one third of the time

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Nick wanted his friend Jason to go skiing with him for a day. Jason did not want to go because he said it would cost too much money. Nick said it would just cost 20$. When they got there, the lift tickets cost 20$ not including parking, ski rentals, and rental insurance, nick used:

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lowball technique

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People are less likely to be susceptible to the foot-in- the - door technique:

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In collectivist cultures

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Stanley Milgram set out to learn:

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how far people would go in obeying an authority figure

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____ is the tendency to respond positively or negatively toward a certain person, object, idea or situation

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Attitude

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The three components of attitudes are ___, thoughts, and actions

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Feelings

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When someone who thinks that they are really smart, does something that they think is stupid, it causes:

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Dissonance

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In Festinger and Carlsmith's study, the students who were only paid 1$ for doing a very boring task:

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Convinced themselves that the task was interesting

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Which of the following memory phenomena has been supported in impression formation?

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Primacy Effect

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Americans tend to assume that personality:

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is relatively fixed and unchanging

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Karen is late for work, and her coworker Jeff assumes that it is because she is careless and lazy. Jeff is assuming a:

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dispositional cause

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Cheryl got a bad grade on a test and says that it is because she had no time to study. Her coworker also got a bad grade, in which Cheryl says it is because she is lazy, Cheryl's type of thinking is:

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The fundamental attribution error

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Prejudice is to ____, as discrimination is to ____

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attitude , behavior

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When Jane divided the class into two groups based on eye color:

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The test scores of the out-group dropped

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Lashonda is a gifted pianoist and is looking for a boyfriend who loves music. Lashonda is looking for what factor of interpersonal attraction?

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Similarity

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Researchers found that reciprocity of liking doesn't work when:

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A person suffers from feelings of low- self worth

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One common cause of aggression is:

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Frustration

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A women falls on the sidewalk in front of ben. There is no one else around. Studies have shown that Ben is _____ in this situation

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More likely to help

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Ryan sees a women collapse in the mall. He does not run over because he assumes that there is probably a doctor or nurse in the crowd who can provide more assistance. This is an example of:

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Diffusion of responsibility

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Archealogists have found human skulls that bear the signs of ancient surgeries. This surgery has been termed:

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Trephining

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The study of abnormal behavior is:

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Psychopathology

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Dr. Sutton performed some tests and believes the abnormal behaviors Richard is displaying are caused by a chemical imbalance. She is writing a prescription for a pill she believes will restore the balance that he needs. Dr. Sutton is in favor of a ____ treatment.

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Biological

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Terms such as diagnosis, mental patient, and remission are examples of the ___ model's influence on the language used to describe disorders.

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Medical

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Of the following disorders, which one is diagnosed with the greatest frequency in a given year in the United States?

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Phobic disorders

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The term given to an anxiety that seems to be unrelated to any realistic known factor is:

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Free- floating anxiety

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A phobia which literally means "Fear of the marketplace" is called

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agoraphobia

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______ refers to when a particular thought gets stuck in a person's mind, occurring over and over again causing excessive anxiety that can only be relived by performing some ritualistic mental act or behavior

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OCD

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_____ is the most commonly diagnosed mood disorder and is 1.5 to 3 times as common in women as it is in men

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Major Depressive Disorder

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Disorders in which there is a break in conscious awareness, memory, the sense of identity, or some combination of these are:

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Dissociative disorder

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A man wakes up on the beach and has no idea how he got there, who he is, where he lives , or any sense of identity. He is experiencing

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Dissociative fugue

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People with ____ disorder have lower brain activity in the areas responsible for bodily awareness, and feel detached from themselves, their bodies and their surroundings

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depersonalization

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Teri a women suffering from schizophrenia believes that she is a queen in a far-off-land, she is experiencing:

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Delusions of grandeur

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Personality disorders are different from other psychological disorders in that personality disorders:

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affect the entire life adjustment to that person

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The individual diagnosed with ___ personality disorder usually has very intense and unstable relationships with others

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borderline

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One gender difference in personality disorders is that there are more:

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males diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and more females diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.

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