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Psychology 2301 - Chapter 13 Personality - correct answer A combination of enduring and distinct patterns of behavior, thoughts, and emotions that are typical of an individual Theory of Personality - correct answer an organized attempt to describe and explain how personalities develop & why personalities differ Psychodynamic approaches to personality - correct answer Assume that personality is motivated by inner forces and conflicts about which people have little awareness and over which ...

Psychology 2301 (exam 1)Social Cultural Perspective - correct answer Culture shapes who you are, How you behave Cognitive Perspective - correct answer How people Think, Take in, Store, Process, and Receive information Psychodynamic Perspective - correct answer Unconscious drives and resolved/unresolved experiences lead to behavior. Biological Perspective - correct answer Physical structures and substances affect behavior Behavioral Perspective - correct answer Performance of an actio...

psychology 2301 ACC test 1 psychology - correct answer scientific study of mind and behavior 1st psychologists? - correct answer Wundt (structuralism) 1st American psychologists? - correct answer William James (functionalism) Freud - correct answer believed unconscious urges drive personality (psychoanalytic theory) gestalt - correct answer studying our sensory behavior as a whole (listening to single intrument) pavlov, Watson, and skinner - correct answer believed in behaviorism...

Psychology 2301 Blinn Exam 1Nativism - correct answer Philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn Gia is a 'flower child' living in the late 1960s. She is having some problems with depression and would like to talk to a therapist about realizing her full potential. She is MOST likely to resonate to which type of psychological therapy? - correct answer Humanistic Mind - correct answer Private inner experience of perceptions, thoughts, memories, and feelings ...

Psychology 2301 Chapter 1 Quiz answersWhat is the process of objectively evaluating, comparing, analyzing, and synthesizing information? - correct answer Critical Thinking If you were keeping an in-depth record of your conscious awareness including sensation, images, feelings, and thoughts that you are aware of experiencing, then you would be practicing what Wundt would call _______. - correct answer Introspection The belief that the unconscious mind has an influence on one's behavior is ...

Psychology 2301 Chapter 1What is the definition of psychology? - correct answer the scientific study of behavior and mental processes research methods that yield descriptions behavior rather than casual explanations are called ______ methods - correct answer descriptive when researchers want to record behaviors that occur in a laboratory setting, then they use _____ - correct answer laboratory observation the purpose of _____ is to provide a detailed description of some behavior or diso...

Psychology 2301 Chapter 2 Quiz answersThe human body is composed of how many chromosomes? - correct answer 46 Modern psychologists believe that many human characteristics such as eye color, hair color, or height are ________ - correct answer Polygenic. More than likely your genetics has absolutely nothing to do with the color of the shoes you are wearing right now. Thus your choice of shoe color this morning has a heritability estimate of ________ - correct answer 0% Natural selection i...

Psychology 2301 Chapter 2Neuroscience - correct answer the study of the brain and nervous system Biological psychology - correct answer the branch of psychology that focuses on how the brain and other biological systems influence the human behavior Neurons - correct answer the building blocks of the nervous system that transmit electrical and chemical signals in the body Cell Body - correct answer the region of the neuron that includes a nucleus containing DNA, protein producing mechani...

psychology 2301 chapter 5learning - correct answer enduring change in behavior or thinking that results from experiences habituation - correct answer An organism's decreasing response to a stimulus with repeated exposure to it stimulus - correct answer something that causes a response classical conditioning - correct answer ivan pavlov. process in which an originally neutral stimulus, by repeated pairing with a stimulus that normally elicits a response, comes to elicit a similar or...

Psychology 2301 Chapter 8Theories of Motivation - correct answer • Instinct • Drive • Incentive • Arousal • Humanistic Theories Instinct - correct answer Genetic programming Drive - correct answer Need to reduce tension caused by unmet needs (getting something to eat because you are hungry) a lot of human behavior is explain by this theory Incentive - correct answer Motivated by rewards (We are tempted just to buy it ) Arousal - correct answer Maintain an ideal level or...