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39 Cards in this Set
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Physiological |
Hunger is an example of ________ state
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Cognitive
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Ruth may have been motivated to eat by the presence of ________ elements such as awareness of her class schedule.
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Norms |
Informal social rules that govern our behavior are called _________.
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Emotional |
Anger is an example of _________ response
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Stage
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When Ruth did not react as a two-year-old would, she was acting appropriately for her_________ of development.
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Insight
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Understanding psychology can provide useful _________into behavior |
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Mnemonic devices
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The technical term for a memory aids to help you in rote learning is ________. |
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Associate
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Mnemonic devices require that you _________ each item on the list with a mental picture
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Shaping |
The systematic manner of dispensing rewards and punishments is called _________
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reinforcing |
By lending people money because they always seem to forget to bring theirs, you may be _______ an undesirable behavior. |
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hypothesis |
An educated guess about the relationship between two factors is called a ______. |
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proved or disproved |
Any hypothesis must be worded in such a way that it can be _____ or _____. |
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Social |
Psychology is a ______ science, on in which precise statements are tested to see whether they are true or not. |
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Greek |
The roots of the study of human behavior can be traced back to the ______. |
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Wilhelm Wundt in 1879 |
The first psychology laboratory was established by ______ in ______. |
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Mind |
Wundt's studies dealt with analyzing human______. |
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Sigmund Freud |
______, a Viennese physician, felt that conscious experiences are only the tip of the psychological iceberg. |
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Biological |
Freud felt that ______ urges are in conflict with the requirements of society and morality. |
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Unconscious |
According to Freud, ______ motivations and conflicts are responsible for much human behavior. |
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Free association |
The technique Freud developed for indirectly studying unconscious processes is called ______. |
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Dreams |
Freud felt that ______ are expressions of the most primitive unconscious urges. |
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Case Studies |
Freud used his records, or ______, to develop a theory of personality. |
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Sir Francis Galton |
______, a nineteenth-century scientist, found that greatness tends to run in families. |
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Hereditary |
Galton concluded that genius is a ______ trait. |
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Personality and Intelligence |
The tests devised by Galton were the forerunners of modern ______ and ______ tests used by psychologists. |
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Individual |
Galton's book, Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development defined the beginnings of ______ psychology. |
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Conditioned Reflex |
The concept of ______ was used by psychologists as a means of exploring the development of behavior. |
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Behaviorists |
Psychologists who stressed investigating observable behavior became known as ______. |
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John B. Watson |
The position of behaviorism was first formulated by ______, an American psychologist. |
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Conditioning |
Watson maintained that all behavior is the result of ______. |
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B.F. Skinner |
______, an American psychologist, refined and popularized behaviorism. |
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Teaching Machine |
Skinner's ______ proved to be a forerunner of computerized programmed instruction. |
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Cinical |
The psychologist who is employed in a mental institution, clinic, or private office and administers personality tests to determine the need for and the modality of treatment is a ______ psychologist. |
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Counseling |
The psychological specialist who works in schools or industrial firms and advises individuals who are normal rather than disturbed is a ______ psychologist. |
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Social |
Mary Smith is a psychologist who studies the way groups influence individual behavior. She most likely is a ______ psychologist. |
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Developmental |
Most ______ psychologists study individuals from birth to age fifteen, although there is a recent emphasis on the full life cycle. |
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Educational |
The subdivision of psychology that is concerned with the evaluation of teaching methods, the designing of tests, and the effects of motivation on learning ability is ______ psychology. |
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Industrial |
A psychologist concerned with productivity, job placement, and work conditions is most likely an ______ psychologist. |
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Experimental |
About 25 person of all psychologist carry on basic research in a college or university setting, Their research covers the full range of psychology. These psychologist are known as ______ psychologists. |