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Psych 100 Csu Exam 1 Questions And Correct Answers Latest Version
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- Psych 100
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- University Of California - Berkeley
Psych 100 Csu Exam 1 Questions And Correct Answers Latest Version
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Psych 100 Csu Exam 1 Questions AndCorrect Answers Latest Version
Psychology ANS✔✔ the study of the human mind and human behavior
Aristotle ANS✔✔ Theorized about psychological concepts
· Memory
· Dreams
· Emotion
·Perceptions
· Personality
Charles Darwin ANS✔✔ o Theory of evolution
o Natural selection
Hindsight bias ANS✔✔ "I knew it all along"
Theory ANS✔✔ o Explanation using an integrated set of principles that
organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events.
o An idea that emerges after linking facts with deeper principles
Hypothesis ANS✔✔ a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
· Description ANS✔✔ o Observing and describing what we encounter is the
starting point of any science
, o Case study ANS✔✔ Examines one individual in depth in the hope of
revealing things true to all of us
o Naturalistic observation ANS✔✔ · Recording behavior in a natural
environment
o Survey ANS✔✔ · Look at many cases in less depth
Positive correlation ANS✔✔ two variables effect each other in the same way
· Negative correlation ANS✔✔ two variables effect each other in opposite
ways
Experimentation ANS✔✔ Allows researchers to manipulate a variable to
study its effects on behavior
o Independent variable ANS✔✔ Researcher gets to manipulate
Dependent variable ANS✔✔ what changes because of the independent
variable. What you are measuring
Confounding variables ANS✔✔ a factor other than the independent variable
that may impact the dependent variable
Neurons ANS✔✔ Nerve cells
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