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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCH EXAM 1
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-Guarantee passing score -114 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: ? Unlike Wundt and Titchener, James was more interested in the importance of consciousness to () () rather than just its ()
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everyday life; analysis
Question 2: Titchener called his new viewpoint
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structuralism Question 3: contrasts and comparisons of a behavior or issue are studied in at least two or more cultures
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cross-cultural research Question 4: Which of the following psychological professionals must always have a medical degree?
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psychiatrist
Question 5: ? Cognitive neuroscientists use tools for imaging the structure and activity of the living brain such as
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MRI Question 6: Who was the first female president of the American Psychological Association?
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Mary Whiton Calkins Question 7: ? Involves observing a behavior and noting everything about it; what is happening, where it happens, to whom it happens, and under what circumstances it seems to happen
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Description
Question 8: If the pancreas secretes too little insulin, it results in
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diabetes Question 9: () showed that a reflex (an involuntary reaction) could be caused to occur in response to a formerly unrelated stimulus
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Pavlov
Question 10: His viewpoints opposed those of Wundt and Titchener
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William James
Question 11: One important advantage of an MRI over a CT scan is that the MRI
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provides much more detail Question 12: Paychodynamic perspective has more emphasis on () and () relationships and the discovery of other motivations behind a person's behavior
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social; interpersonal
Question 13: Freud believed that all behavior stems from () (), whereas Watson believed that all () is ()
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unconscious motivation; behavior; learned
Question 14: Freud believed that () was formed in the first () years of life
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personality; six
Question 15: Psychology is the scientific study of () and () ()
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behavior; mental processes Question 16: Psychoanalysis has been the basis for a process called () in which a trained psychological professional helps a person gain insight into and change his or her behavior
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psychotherapy Question 17: Which one of Watson's graduate students repeated Watson's study but added "cancelling out" the phobic reaction of the baby to the white rat
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Mary Cover Jones
Question 18: The first list of traits was compiled by
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Gordon Allport Question 19: According to Adler, humans' driving force was not the pursuit of pleasure but the pursuit of
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superiority
Question 20: Low levels of serotonin activity have been linked to
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depression
Question 21: Freud based his theory of personality upon case studies of his patients. Most of his patients were
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similar Question 22: Mary Cover Jones proved the idea of () with the Little Peter experiment
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counterconditioning
Question 23: Which type of assessment are psychoanalysts most likely to use?
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Rorschach inkblot test Question 24: The term "blind observers" refers to people who :
- collect data only by listening
- are "blinded" by their own biases
- do not know what the research question is
- do not know what to observe
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- do not know what the research question is
Question 25: ?
- F. Skinner
? Not only continued research in classical conditioning, but also developed a theory called
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operant conditioning
Question 26: () perspective combines two areas of study
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sociocultural Question 27: Watson wanted to bring psychology back to a focus on scientific inquiry, and the only way to do that was to ignore the issue of () and focus only on () ()
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consciousness; observable behavior