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psychology 200 midterm study guide questions with accurate || || || || || || || ||
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the scientific study of mental process and behaviors - ✔✔psychology
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what are the 5 perspectives that we have been discussing? - ✔✔neuroscience, psychodynamic,
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humanistic, cognitive, and behavioral
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name the main psychologist and their theories - ✔✔freud, skinner. wundt, calkins, piaget, pavlov
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what are freud's theories? - ✔✔psychosexual stages, unconscious wishes, psychodynamic
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what are skinner's theories? - ✔✔skinner box, operant conditioning
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what are piaget's theories? - ✔✔cognitive
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what are pavlov's theories? - ✔✔classical conditioning
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what are wundt's theories? - ✔✔first laboratory
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what are calkin's theories? - ✔✔first woman president of APA (American Psychological
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Association)
behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group of people and handed down
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from one generation to the next - ✔✔culture
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tendency to believe after learning an outcome we could have predicted. i knew it all along
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phenomenon - ✔✔hidsight bias (know the term if an example were given)
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what are the steps of the scientific method? (in order) - ✔✔ask a question, theory, hypothesis,
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communicate the findings, replicate || || ||
factor that is manipulated in an experiment - ✔✔independent variable
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factor that is being measured in an experiment - ✔✔dependent variable
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what does SQ3R mean? - ✔✔survey, question, read, retrieve, and review
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in a relationship one increases while the other decreases - ✔✔negative correlation (an ex. may be
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in a relationship two things increase or decrease together - ✔✔positive correlation (an ex. may be
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given)
receives the treatment in an experiment - ✔✔experimental group
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does not receive any treatment in an experiment - ✔✔control group
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basic element of the nervous system - ✔✔neuron
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what are the main 5 parts of the neuron? - ✔✔dendrites, axon, myelin sheath, synapse, and cell
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body
chemical massagers that carry messages from one neuron to the next - ✔✔neurotransmitters
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gap or space between the neurons - ✔✔synapse
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psychology 200 midterm study guide questions with accurate || || || || || || || ||
detailed answers ||
the scientific study of mental process and behaviors - ✔✔psychology
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what are the 5 perspectives that we have been discussing? - ✔✔neuroscience, psychodynamic,
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humanistic, cognitive, and behavioral
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name the main psychologist and their theories - ✔✔freud, skinner. wundt, calkins, piaget, pavlov
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what are freud's theories? - ✔✔psychosexual stages, unconscious wishes, psychodynamic
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what are skinner's theories? - ✔✔skinner box, operant conditioning
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what are piaget's theories? - ✔✔cognitive
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what are pavlov's theories? - ✔✔classical conditioning
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what are wundt's theories? - ✔✔first laboratory
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what are calkin's theories? - ✔✔first woman president of APA (American Psychological
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Association)
behaviors, ideas, attitudes, values and traditions shared by a group of people and handed down
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from one generation to the next - ✔✔culture
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tendency to believe after learning an outcome we could have predicted. i knew it all along
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phenomenon - ✔✔hidsight bias (know the term if an example were given)
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, 2
what are the steps of the scientific method? (in order) - ✔✔ask a question, theory, hypothesis,
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communicate the findings, replicate || || ||
factor that is manipulated in an experiment - ✔✔independent variable
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factor that is being measured in an experiment - ✔✔dependent variable
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what does SQ3R mean? - ✔✔survey, question, read, retrieve, and review
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in a relationship one increases while the other decreases - ✔✔negative correlation (an ex. may be
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given)
in a relationship two things increase or decrease together - ✔✔positive correlation (an ex. may be
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given)
receives the treatment in an experiment - ✔✔experimental group
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does not receive any treatment in an experiment - ✔✔control group
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basic element of the nervous system - ✔✔neuron
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what are the main 5 parts of the neuron? - ✔✔dendrites, axon, myelin sheath, synapse, and cell
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body
chemical massagers that carry messages from one neuron to the next - ✔✔neurotransmitters
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gap or space between the neurons - ✔✔synapse
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