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PSYCH 104 Exam 1 Questions And Correct
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psychology ANS✔✔ scientific study of behavior and mental processes



hindsight bias ANS✔✔ tendancy to believe, after learning an outcome, that
one would have foreseen it.



theory ANS✔✔ an explanation using an integrated set of principals that
organize observations and predicts behaviors or events.



hypothesis ANS✔✔ a testable prediction, often applied by theory



survey ANS✔✔ a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or
behaviors of people. Usually by questioning or a random sampling



correlation ANS✔✔ a measure of the extent to which two factors vary
together and thus of how well either factor predicts of each other



negative correlation ANS✔✔ variables show an up and down or a downwards
and upwards trend



positive correlation ANS✔✔ variables show and up and up or a down and
down correlation



experiment ANS✔✔ a direct way to test a hypothesis about a cause\effect
relationship between factors

, independent variable ANS✔✔ controlled factor in an experiment



dependent variable ANS✔✔ measured facts in an experiment



Random Sample ANS✔✔ every number of a population being studied should
have an equal chance of being selected for the study



random Assignment ANS✔✔ every subject in study has an equal chance of
being placed in either the experimental or control group



measures of Central Tendency ANS✔✔ Mean, median mode



Neurons: four parts ANS✔✔ Neurons, dendrites, axon, myelin sheath



Neuron: ANS✔✔ cells life-support center



dendrite ANS✔✔ collects information



axon ANS✔✔ cells output structure



myelin sheath ANS✔✔ not part of neuron, some have some dont, acts as an
electrical insulator



synapse ANS✔✔ junction between Axon tip of the sending neuron and
dendrite or of the recieving neuron

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