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Aristotle suggested that a meal makes us sleepy by causing heat to collect around the
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Heart
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Throat
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Brain
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Stomach
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Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory work involved experimental studies of______.
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Mental Processes
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Social Influence
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Personality Development
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Animal Intelligence
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Introspection was the basic research tool used by _______________in order to study people's inner sensations and mental images.
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John B.Watson
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Charles Darwin
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Edward Titchener
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B.F Skinner
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Looking inward and reporting your immediate sensations, images, and feelings is called ___________.
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Introspection
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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Behaviorism
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Humanistic Psychology
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The biopsychosocial approach emphasizes the importance of having a single academic perspective to guide research.
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- True
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A major principle underlying the SQ3R study method is that people learn and remember material best when they actively process it.
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- True
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A psychologist who studies how worker productivity might be increased by changing office layout is engaged in applied research.
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- True
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Behavioral perspective emphasizes the learning of observable responses.
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The way we encode, process, store and retrieve information is the privacy concern of
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Cognitive
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Intuitive
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________is a psychologist and a physician.
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Psychiatrist
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Listener
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A Greek philosopher who believed in intelligence was inherited by
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Plato
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Aristotle
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Socrates
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The principle of informed consent is most directly relevant to people's right to
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Chose whether they wish to participate in a research study
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Know whether they are assigned to an experimental or control group
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Replicate the results of a research study
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Be fully debriefed following their participation in research
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The personal values of psychologists are likely to influence their choice of__________.
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Topics of investigation
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Research methods
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Explanatory Theories
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All of these
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Psychologists study animals because___________.
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They want to understand how different species think and behave
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Animal Physiology is often simpler and easier to understand
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It give them insight into human behavior
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Psychologists report that genders in their risk of_________,
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Alcohol experience
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Relationships
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Study habits
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Negative Behavior
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Psychologists report that genders differ in their risk of eating disorders.
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The transmission of political practices and religious customs to other generations best illustrates the placebo effect.
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The purpose of experiments is to recreate behaviors exactly as they occur in every day life.
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Men and women exhibit similar overall intelligence and well-being.
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As a science, psychology is objective and value-free/
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- True
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A normal curve would be LEAST likely to characterize a large random sample of
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Family incomes
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Mortgage
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Taxes
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Rent
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The standard deviation is a measure of
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Variation
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Discrimination
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In any distribution of scores, and equal number of scores are both greater than and less than
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The medium
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The biggest
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The smallest
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Neither
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The cells that serve as the basic building blocks of our body's information system are called____________.
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Neurons
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Neurotransmitters
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Ventricles
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Genes
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The movement of positively charged ions across the membrane of a neuron can produce an(a)_________.
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Glial Cell
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Action Potential
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Myelin sheath
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Interneuron
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In terms of evolutionary development, the older region of the brain are those that regulate______.
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Memory
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Emotion
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Breathing
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Foresight
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The left cerebral hemisphere is typically superior to the right in _________.
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Spatial Reasoning
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Speech Production
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Visual Perception
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Musical Abilities
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Aristotle believed that the mind was most intimately connected with the head.
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The nineteenth-century theory that bumps on the skull reveals that a person's abilities and traits are called Phrenology.
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- True
- False
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Charles Sherrington was the first to suggest that different regions of the brain control different aspects of behavior.
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- True
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Psychologists who work from the biological perspective are most likely to focus on the links between physiological activity and psychological events.
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- True
- False
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The part of the neuron that transmits neural messages to other neurons or to muscles or to glands is called_______.
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Axon
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Nucleus
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Which endocrine gland regulates body growth_________.
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Pituiary
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Cognitive
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Left-handers are more numerous than usual among those with__________.
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Reading Disabilities
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Listening Disabilities
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The ability to recognize faces with the right hemisphere but not with the left hemisphere best illustrates________.
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Laterization
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Alignment
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Prior to the twentieth century, psychology was considered to be the study of
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The circadian rhythm
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Neuroadaptation
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Consciousness
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Narcolepsy
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The interdisciplinary study of brain activity linked with our mental processes is known as
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Behaviorism
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Behavior Genetics
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Cognitive Neuroscience
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Evolutionary Psychology
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A large amount of our mental activity occurs outside our awareness thanks to our capacity for________________.
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Neuronadaptation
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Hypnagogic Sensations
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REM Rebound
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Dual Processing
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You typically fail to consciously perceive that your own nose is in your line of vision. This best describes__________________.
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Neuronadaptation
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Change Blindness
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Dissociation
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Selective Attention
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Animals with the most need to graze and the most ability to hide from danger tend to sleep less.
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- True
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Neural connections supporting "muscle memories" learned while practicing tennis are strengthen by neuroadaptation
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- True
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Chronic sleep debit is most likely to promote obesity.
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- True
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Night terrors are more likely to be experienced by children than by adults.
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- True
- False
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The pattern of biological functioning that occurs on a roughly 24-hour cycle is called________________.
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Circadian
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Circadium
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During NREM-1 sleep, people may experience fantastic images that resemble
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Hallucinations
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Daydreams
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Paradoxical sleep is to slow-wave sleep as REM sleep is to _______________.
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NREM-3 Sleep
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NREM-1 Sleep
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In the US and Canada, people today sleep ______than people did a century ago.
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Less
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More
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As members of the human family, we all share a common______________.
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Temperament
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Gender Schema
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Biological Heritage
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Y Chromosome
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People's reactions to our genetic dispositions constitute part of your____.
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Heritablity
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Temperament
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Individualism
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Environment
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The threadlike structures that contain genes are called_____.
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Synapses
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Schemas
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Chromosomes
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Genomes
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Twin studies suggest that a strong influence on emotional instability comes from______.
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Genetic Predisposition
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Y Chromosome
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Gender Schema
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Testosterone
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A stimulating environment is most likely to facilitate the development of a child's neural connections
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- True
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Evolutionary psychology would be most helpful for understanding the social causes of human aggression.
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- True
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Mutations result from random errors in gene replication
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- True
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Identical twins separated at birth and raised in completely different cultures would be most likely to have similar____________.
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Temperaments
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Schemas
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Temperament is an individual's characteristic level of________________.
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Emotional Reactivity
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Molecular geneticists would be most interested in studying__________.
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Chromosomes Segments
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Genetics
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Today's adults are taller and heavier than those a century ago. The differences between those generational groups illustrate the impact of_______.
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Nutrition
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Dieting
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One of the three major issues in developmental psychology involves a focus on___________.
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Primary and secondary sex characteristics
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Menarache and menopause
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Identity and role confusion
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Stability and change
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Boys first begin producing sperm during__________.
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Puberty
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Embryonic development
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Fetal development
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The first year after birth
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From 2 weeks to 8 weeks after conception, the human organism is known as a(n)____.
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Embryo
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Fetus
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Zygote
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Ovum
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An unlearned,automatic response to a sensory stimulus is called a _________.
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Neural network
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Synapse
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Schema
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Reflex
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The awareness that things continue to exist even when they are perceived is known as assimulation.
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- True
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Less than normal activity in brain areas involved in mirroring other's actions has been found to be associated with autism.
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- True
- False
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Second graders who listened to music while doing math problems grasped third-grade math better the following year.
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- True
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The process by which certain birds form attachments during a critical period very early in life is called imprinting.
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- True
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Excess neural connections in the brain's association areas are reduced through a process of___________.
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Pruning
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Dancing
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The recommended position for putting babies to sleep is______.
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On their back
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Fetal position
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Poor memory for early life experiences results from a baby's relative lack of______________.
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Maturation
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Memory
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Piaget is best known for his interest in the process of____________development
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Fetal
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Cognitive
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Detection is to interpretation as sensation is to______.
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Accomodation
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Transduction
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Perception
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Psychokinesis
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Which of the following represents the second of three steps basic to all sensory systems?
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Transduction
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Parallel processing
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Perceptual adaptation
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Feature detection
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The conscious or unconscious activation of certain associates is called______.
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Transduction
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Priming
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Feature detection
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Tinnitus
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According to Weber's law, to be perceived as different, two stimuli most differ by a constant minimum________.
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Shape
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Distance
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Intensity
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Proportion
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Diminished sensitivity to an unchanging stimulus is known as ____________.
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Sensory adoption
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Stimulus adaptation
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John Locke would have suggested that a perceptual set results in__________.
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Prior experience
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Knowing from birth
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Intensity is to brightness as wavelength is to_____,
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smell
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Hue
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The iris is a doughnut-shaped ring of muscle that adjusts the size of the________.
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Pupil
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White part
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Bipolar cells are located in the optic nerve
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The nerve cells that responds to specific aspects of a visual stimulus, such as its shape or its movement are feature detectors.
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- True
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The importance of parallel processing is best illustrated by Weber's law.
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- True
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Relative motion provides a cue for perceiving the distance of objects.
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- True
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The process of acquiring new and relatively enduring information or behaviors is called
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Reinforcement
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Learning
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Who introduced the term behaviorism?
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Edward L.Thorndike
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John B.Watson
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A dog's salivation at the sight of a food dish is a(n)______________.
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Conditioned response
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Conditioned stimulus
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The stage of classical conditioning when a neutral stimulus first beings triggering a conditioned response called_________.
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Association
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Acquisition
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Teachers who effectively shape their students' study habits are most likely to reinforce even minor improvements in students' study skills.
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- True
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A positive reinforcer is anything that when removed before a response, strengthens the response.
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- True
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Escape from a punishing event is a negative reinforcer
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- True
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An event that decreases the behavior that precedes it is a punishment.
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- True
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An allergy triggered by the sight of plastic flowers response best illustrates the process of_______________.
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Generalization
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Placebo Effect
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Alexis is addicted to drugs. The room in which she usually takes them is likely to become a(n)______________ for drug cravings.
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Conditioned stimulus
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Unconditioned stimulus
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The psychologist most closely associated with the study of operant conditioning was_____________.
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B.F Skinner
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John B.Watson
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The process of reinforcing successively closer approximations to a desired behavior is called____.
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Bonding
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Shpaing
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