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1
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Psychology is a hybrid of?

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Philosophy and physiology

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What is participant observation?

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Joining a group or situation in order to study a behavior

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Who is the founding father of psychology?

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Wilhelm Wundt. Gustav Fetchner didn’t want the credit

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What are double-blind studies?

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Neither the experimenter or the participant know who’s receiving treatments or who is receiving the placebo

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What does overt behavior mean?

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An activity that can be observed

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What does covert behavior mean?

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Activities that cannot be seen

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What is a naturalistic observation?

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An observation of behavior that takes place in a natural setting

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What is ID?

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Part of personality that seeks pleasure and immediate gratification

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What is EGO?

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Part of our personality that operates within the bounds of reality to seek acceptable ways to satisfy ID demands

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What is super ego?

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Seats of our morals and conscious

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What are self reports?

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Indication about our internal state or subjective feeling

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12
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Retrograde amnesia is?

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Difficultly remembering the past

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Anterograde amnesia is?

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Not able to remember new information

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Long-term memory is?

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The storehouse of facts, concepts, experiences and skills

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Short term memory is?

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Used to hold information briefly that has been identified so that it can be acted on or copied to a more permanent memory system

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Recovering memory is?

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Recollection of a past event that has been unavailable for a long period of time

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Classical conditioning is?

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Learning that results from the pairing of a neutral stimulus and an unconditioned stimulus

18
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What is schema?

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The general body of knowledge one possesses about a topic

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What is a unconditioned stimulus?

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Automatically elicits a response

20
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What is a conditioned and stimulus?

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Neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly paired with the unconditioned stimulus and now elicits the response.

21
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What is naïve realism?

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The view of perception that says our perception is the way it is because that’s the way the world

22
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What is the intelligence quotient?

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Mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100

23
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Gardeners multiple intelligence theory?

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Linguistic (verbal)
Musical
Spatial
Logical-mathematical
Bodily-kinesthetic (movement)
Interpersonal (understanding others)
Intrapersonal (understanding self)
Naturalist

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