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What are the two key concepts in the scientific approach?
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-Theory and scientific method || || ||




-Theory and development || ||




-Theory and hypothesis || ||




-Hypothesis and study - ✔✔Theory and hypothesis || || || || || ||




What key issue debates the role of early experiences on later development in opposition to
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current behavior reflecting present experiences?
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-Nature/nurture debate ||




-Aquestion of continuity versus discontinuity || || || ||




-Infant versus late adulthood
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-Passive versus active issue - ✔✔Passive versus active issue
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Which early scholar had an environmentalist position on human behavior?
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-Charles Darwin ||




-Jean-Jacques Rousseau ||




-John B. Watson
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- John Locke - ✔✔John Locke
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Who conducted the famous "Little Albert" experiment?
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-John B. Watson
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-James Mark Baldwin || ||




-John Locke
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-Jean-Jacques Rousseau - ✔✔John B Watson || || || || ||

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Which of the following options does not drive our actions according to Freud?
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Fears

Distastes

Unconscious Motives ||




Desires - ✔✔Distates || ||




According to Freud, person dominated by their __ might be narcissistic and impulsive.
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Unconcious

Id

Superego

Ego - ✔✔ID
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What major conflict occurs during the phallic stage of psychosexual development?
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Oedipus/Electra complex ||




Weaning off breast or bottle || || || ||




Toilet Training||




Smoking and overeating - ✔✔Oedipus/Electra complex
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Which of the following examples demonstrates projection?
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-Jerome's desire for revenge on the drunk driver who killed his son is channeled into a
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community support group for people who have lost loved ones to drunk driving
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-Chris often cheats on her boyfriend because she suspects he is already cheating on her
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-Kim failed his history course because he did not study or attend class, but he told his
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roommates that he failed because the professor didn't like him. || || || || || || || || ||




-LaShea cannot remember her grandfather's fatal heart attack, although she was present -
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✔✔Chris often cheats on her boyfriend because she suspects he is already cheating on her
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What stage of the psychosocial theory encompasses a main task of developing a sense of
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self?

-Identity vs. Role Confusion || || ||




-Integrity vs. Despair || ||




-Industry vs. Inferiority || ||




-Autonomy vs. Shame - ✔✔Identity vs. Role Confusion || || || || || || ||




Behaviorism is a theory of ___? || || || || ||




Observation

Internal factors ||




External Stimuli ||




Learning - ✔✔Learning || ||




Which one of the following questions is not an example of classical conditioning?
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-A song on the radio might remind you of a memorable evening you spent with your first
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true love. ||




-You went to a new cafe with the same smell as your elementary cafeteria, it might evoke
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the feelings you had when you were in school.
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-ou hear your entire name called as you walk across the stage to get your diploma and it
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makes you tense because it reminds you of how your father used to use your full name
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when he was mad. || || ||

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-You try a new brand of peanut butter and you don't like it. - ✔✔You try a new brand of
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peanut butter and you don't like it.
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What do organisms learn to associate in operant conditioning?
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Reaction and its consequence || || ||




Reaction and Attitude || ||




Behavior and Reaction || ||




Behavior and its consequence - ✔✔Behavior and its consequence
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Which options are examples of reinforcers?
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None of the above
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Receiving Money ||




Praise

All the above - ✔✔All of the above
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How many parts does the observational learning process consist of?
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Four

Three

Five

Eight - ✔✔Four|| ||




What happened during the preoperational stage in Piaget's stages of development?
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