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History of Psychology
100
Classifying objects.
Prototypes are especially important in the process of____.
100
A research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process.
What is an experiment?
100
Natural selection of adaptive traits.
What is Biological?
100
Science of behavior and mental processes.
What is psychology?
100
Sigmund Freud.
The controversial ideas of this famed personality theorist and therapist have influenced many people's self-understanding.
200
Unable to see a problem from a fresh perspective.
If you are experiencing fixation you are______.
200
Subjects exposed to something special, or what is being tested.
What is an experimental group?
200
Skinner's Experiments on Reinforcement.
The law of effect was most clearly highlighted by_____.
200
Anything an organism does.
What is behavior?
200
Wilhelm Wundt.
Who stablished the first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig, Germany?
300
What is strong correlation?
The number between two objects is closer to the whole number 1 either positive or negative.
300
Subject being manipulated.
What is the independent variable?
300
Concepts.
The basic units of cognition are_____.
300
...rules for grouping words into sentences.
Syntax refers to the_____.
300
B.F. Skinner.
A leading behaviorist, rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior.
400
Working memory.
Researchers now recognize the active information processing that occurs in short-term memory and refer to it as ________ memory.
400
heritability.
Which of the following is NOT a requirement of a good test? reliability heritability standardization validity
400
What is Psychological?
Learned fears and other learned expectations.
400
Diminishes with age.
Our ability to learn a new language____.
400
Who is Margaret Floy Washburn.
The first woman to receive a psychology Ph.D., and synthesized animal behavior research in The Animal Mind.
500
Storage decay.
The gradual fading of the physical memory trace contributes to_______.
500
The three-stage processing model of memory was proposed by
Atkinson and Shiffrin.
500
Sign Language.
Researchers taught the chimpanzee Washoe and the gorilla Koko to communicate by using_______.
500
Two-word.
Telegraphic speech is typical of the ________ stage.
500
First woman to be president of the American Psychological Association. DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!!
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
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