AAMC Flash Cards
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Known as behavioral psychology, is a theory of learning based on the idea that all behavior are acquired through conditioning? A)Functionalism B) Humanism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
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Behaviorism
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It’s a belief that all people possess unconscious thoughts, feeling, desires and ,memories.by bringing the content off the unconscious into conscious awareness. A)Functionalism B) Humanism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
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Psychoanalysis
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The perspective that emphasizes looking at the whole individuals and stresses concepts such as free will, self-efficacy and self-actualization. A)Functionalism B) Humanism C) socialization D) Behaviorism
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Humanism
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The study if internal mental processes -all the things that go on inside your brain including perception thinking memory,attention,language, problem solving and learning. A)cognitive psychology B) Humanism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
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Cognitive psychology
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Focuses on breaking down the mental processes into most basic components A)Functionalism B) structuralism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
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Structuralism
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A research technique developed by Wilhelm Wundt ( also known as experimental a self-observation) involved trainings people to carefully and objectively as possible analyze the content of ones own thoughts . A)Retrospection B) Structuralism C) Introspection D) Behaviorism
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Introspection
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Focused on the purpose of consciousness and behavior, and emphasized individual differences. A)Functionalism B) structuralism C) psychoanalysis D) Behaviorism
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Functionalism
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A theory that hold that social order is maintained by domination and power, rather than consensus and conformity. A)ethnocentrism B) conflict theory C) social status theory D) social dominance theory
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Conflict theory
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Money or the concept of currency as people in society has agreed to give it a value, this is an example of? A) Social constructionism B) conflict theory C) social status theory D) social dominance theory
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A)social constructionism
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Individuals give a world a meaning by interacting with it this is an example that fits what concept? A)primary group B) symbolic interactionism C) social status theory D) social ascribe
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B) symbolic interactionism
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A problem becomes described in medical terminology and treated by a medical professionals. A) Medicalization B)non-beneficence C) gender schemata D)folkway
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Medicalization
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Higher social economic status is associated with the lower incidence of stroke this is an example of? A) health disparity B) hindsight bias C) founder effect D) medicalization
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A) Health Disparity
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It describes the alienation that individuals feel on social norms and social bonds are weak without additional to society people experience purposelessness and it was this this is an example of what concert? A) obedience B)) Role exit C)Anomie D) Social stigma
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C)Anomie
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the tendency of previously learned material to hinder subsequent learning. A) retrospective interference B) proactive interference C)source amnesia D) decay in episodic memory
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D) Decay in episodic memory
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The theory that attention to how factors outside of individuals, include community values and other aspects of culture can motivate behavior. A) incentive theory B) humanistic theory C) psychoanalysis theory D) Devine theory
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A) Incentive theory
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It focuses on the contribution of social and cultural factors to disease patterns in population. A) exchange-rational choice B)symbolic interactionism C) social constructionism D) Social epidemiology
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D) Social Epidemiology
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This theory suggests that behaviors are learned through observing others and modeling their actions. A) Social cognitive theory B) Socialization C) Social behaviorism D) Symbolic interactionism
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A) Social Cognitive theory
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And example of intersexuality is the relationship between A) micro and macro levels of analysis B) symbolic in material culture C) Race/ethnicity and social classes D)Cultural values and social norms
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C) Race/ethnicity and social classes
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a sociological and psychological theory that studies the social behavior in the interaction of two parties that implement a cost-benefit analysis to determine risks and benefits. Also, the theory involves economic relationships? A) exchange-rational choice B)symbolic interactionism C) social constructionism D) Social epidemiology
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A) Exchange -rational choice
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A research done where Researchers attempt measure the infant recognition of faces of people of their own race and other races the six-month Infant was able to recognize the difference between its own race and the other races but the nine month Infant’s Recognition was restricted to only race faces? A) Stranger anxiety B)Critical period C)Object permanence D)Autonomy
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A)Stranger anxiety
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This theory posit that one is able to hear different pitches because different sound waves activity at different places along the cochlea’s basilar membrane A)parallel processing B)Interposition C)Accommodation D)Place theory
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Place theory
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A technique in experimental design that is used to avoid the introduction of confounding variables. In usability testing, this technique is most commonly used when establishing task order. A) Cognitive countering B) interposition C) Negative priming D)Counter balancing
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Counter balancing
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Which of the following is a negative symptoms of schizophrenia? A)Delusional B)hallucinations C) emotional flattening D)disorganized thought
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C) Emotional flattening
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The researchers determined that to participants in this case your premier crew were taking medications them may have exacerbated their negative symptoms. Which classification of medication where these participants most likely taking? A)Atypical antipsychotic B)neuroleptic C) hallucinogens D)Stimulants
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B) neuroleptic;
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The capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations independent acquired knowledge?
A) inelegance priming
B) cognitive impairment
C)Fluid intelligence
D) operational thinking
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C) fluid intelligent
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Two friends accept intership’s with the city Council member even though they do not agree with many of the council members policies. Which is most likely to happen if they are in a state of dissonance? The students well.
A)Adopt their attitudes to be more in line with the council member.
B) quit the internships after period of time
C)Continue in their internships but retain the original believes
D)Do as little work as possible so as not to advance the council members agenda
A)Adopt their attitudes to be more in line with the council member.
Research on cognitive dissonance has found that people tend to change their attitude to match their behaviors rather than change their behavior.
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Constructionist understanding of gender asserts that categories of gender are:
A)Biologically determined and immutable
B)Binary and a product of ingrained socialization process
C)Fluid and subs or to social process of meaning-Making
D) binary, yet interchangeable depending on context
C)Binary and the product of ingrained socialization process
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According to Mead, which behavior is an expression of the Me component of the self?
A) An individual studying for an exam instead of going to party
B)An individual skipping work because they want to go to a concert
C)An individual ignoring the emotional needs of a significant other
D)An individual dressing inappropriately For a job interview
A) An individual studying for an exam instead of going to party
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Consists of 3 stages alarm, resistance and exhaustion
General adaptation syndrome
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The strength in of the synaptes between neuron, usually occurs when you learn?
Long term potentiation
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Theory that states that physiological processes happening in the brain create dreams
Activation synthesis hypothesis
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Which scenario is not an accurate representation of the McDonaldization of society?
A)A customer cleaning thier table and disposing of waste after eating at a restaurant
B)A doctor seeing a patient at his or her residence rather than at a medical facility
C)The supermarket chain using self scan machines check out, in place of employees
D)a China of a coffee shops offering the same decor cross the United States
B) A doctor seeing a patient at his or her residence rather than at a medical facility
