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Correlation equals causation. TRUE/FALSE False Correlation: ice cream sales and robberies Causation: heat You are a horrible multitasker. True or False True -Your have to have 100% focus on something in order to fully comprehend it negative correlation indicates that one variable negatively impacts another. True or False False Negative correlation: "more is less" "less is more" (more smoking=less life) Positive correlation: "more is more" "less is more" (less sleep=less memory) The fa...

Introspection refers to a process by which someone examines ________ as objectively as possible. her own conscious experience Psychoanalytic theory focuses on ________ and early childhood experiences. a person's unconscious According to William James, the purpose of psychology was to ________. study the function of behavior Behaviorists study ________. learned behavior A(n) ________ is a chamber that isolates the subject from the external environment. Skinner box ________ is a perspective ...

Dr. Wolfe spent the last year studying a man named Jeremy. Jeremy had a stroke that destroyed a part of his brain called the hippocampus. Since his injury, Jeremy cannot create new memories of anything that has happened to him. The type of research Dr. Wolfe is engaged in is a(n) a. experiment. b. survey. c. case study. d. correlational study. c. case study. Consider an experiment in which participants take a pill that is either a medication or a placebo. The researchers want to determine the e...

Is known as the father of psychology Wilhelm Wundt Mary Cover Jones achieved counterconditioning with "Little Peter" by using food The belief that every experience can be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations is known as structuralism Freud proposed that there is a(n) _____ mind into which we repress all of our threatening urges and desires unconscious The process of objectively examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities is known as objective intros...

When talking with my friend recently, he told me about how last weekend he saw his son take his toys and put them in two groups. In one group were the things that were "alive" (like dolls, stuffed animals etc.) and in the other group were things that were not alive (ping pong rackets, toy furniture etc.). What was my friend's son demonstrating he has a grasp of with regard to things being "alive" vs. "not alive"? Concepts In an art class, the teacher instructed his students to "draw an ...

Functionalism Studies how consciousness changes according to the environment. - William James Gestalt psychology the study of how people preceive information (hear,see,etc) Behaviorism (theory) study that all behavior is received through conditioning. Cognitive approach deals with mental processes like memory and problem solving Positive psychology the scientific study of what makes life most worth living, or the scientific study of postive human fuctioning on many levels. Psychoanalsis aim...

Accommodation developed by psychologist Jean Piaget to describe what occurs when new information or experiences cause you to modify your existing schemas. Rather than make the new information fit into an existing schema, you change the schema in order to accommodate the new information. Agreeableness a personality trait manifesting itself in individual behavioral characteristics that are perceived as kind, sympathetic, cooperative, warm, and considerate Ambivalent the mental disharmony or disc...

Psychology scientific study of behavior and the mind Psychology's main goals 1) describe-observe carefully and describe accurately 2) explain-reasons people know and don't know about what influences their psychology 3) predict-direct applied impact in many fields 4) control-self-control, other-control, awareness of the explanations gives control Epigenetics framework for understanding how the expression of genes is influenced by experiences and the environment to produce individual differenc...

Cassandra is experiencing hunger for quite a while now and has still not eaten. According to the drive theories, if she continues to ignore her hunger and not eta for prolonged periods of time, what will she experience A. Internal tension or drive to obtain food B. External drive to obtain food C. Internal drive to stay hungry D. External drive to suppress her hunger E. External and internal drive to continue staying hungry F. External focus of control A. Internal tesnion or drive to obtain food...

Psychology the scientific study of Human Behavior and Mental Processes Behavior Actions that can be directly observed Mental Processes Private, internal experiences Science The use of systematic methods to observe the natural world. Psychology is a field of science. Critical Thinking Thinking deeply, evaluating, asking questions Curiosity Open mind and imagination Skepticism Asking questions, challenging facts Objectivity Seeing thing as they really are, not as what you want them Psychol...