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Who is considered the real father of psychology and what perspective did he create?
Wilhelm Wundt, structuralism.
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What is the placebo effect?
Answers Vary
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Who is the founder of psychoanalytic/dynamic perspective and what does it focus on?
Subconscious or unconscious thoughts/motivations. Freud
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How would a psychoanalytic/dynamic psychologist analyze domestic abuse?
Abused as a child and has shut out experience therefore deep in subconscious they are acting out their childhood experience.
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What four things do experiments structured with experimental design have? What is a double blind procedure? What is a random assignment procedure?
Independent Variable, Dependent Variable, Control Group, Experimental Group, Neither group knows whether they are control or experimental, control and experimental are randomly assigned to people=no groups
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What are the two first approaches of psychology?
Structuralism and Functionalism
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do something awkward.
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Which psychological perspective is most likely to be concerned with identifying the powers and the limits of human reasoning?
Cognitive
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How would a behaviorist analyze talking during class?
The behavior was never negatively reinforced therefore it persists.
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What are the pros and cons of a survey?
People Lie. Wording Effect. You get a direct answer to your question.
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Psychology today is defined as the scientific study of
behavior and mental processes
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Do your best Chavarria impression.
Answers Vary.
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Which perspective is most directly concerned with assessing the relative impact of both nature and nurture on our psychological traits?
Behavior Genetics
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How would a neuroscientific psychologist explain bipolar disorder?
Chemical imbalance in brain.
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Explain what a small and large standard deviation means.
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Who used the method of introspection to study the mind?
Titchener.
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A majority of respondents in a national survey agreed that “classroom prayer should not be allowed in public schools.” Only 33 percent of respondents in a similar survey agreed that “classroom prayer in public schools should be banned.” These divergent findings best illustrate the importance of:
Wording effect
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Professor Crisman believes that most women prefer tall and physically strong partners because this preference enhanced the survival of our ancestors' genes. This viewpoint best illustrates the ________ perspective.
Evolutionary
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Dr. Tiao conducts basic research on the effects of head injuries on people's problem-solving and abstract-reasoning skills. Which psychological specialty does her research best represent?
Biological
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What is a case study?
When a psychologist studies one person in order to gain a greater understanding of the human mind/behavior. Does research on family, friends, life, etc.
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Socrates, Plato, and Descartes believed what about the mind?
mind and body are distinct and separable.
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What are the two most important ethical concerns when conducting a psychological experiment?
Nothing gets hurt and there is minimal deception
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Dr. Winkle conducts basic research on the systematic changes in intelligence associated with aging. It is most likely that Dr. Winkle is a(n) ________ psychologist.
Developmental.
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The biopsychosocial approach provides an understanding of social-cultural influences integrated within the larger framework of A) SQ3R. B) introspection. C) humanistic psychology. D) multiple levels of analysis. E) structuralism.
Multiple levels of analysis
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An extensive survey revealed that children with relatively high self-esteem tend to picture God as kind and loving, whereas those with lower self-esteem tend to perceive God as angry. The researchers concluded that the children's self-esteem had apparently influenced their views of God. This conclusion best illustrates that:
Correlation does not equal causation.