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1
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What word means the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?

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Psychology

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2
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What does psyche mean?

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mind

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3
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What does logos mean?

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study of

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4
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What is the opposite of Free Will?

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Determinism

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5
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What is the opposite of Determinism?

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Free Will

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6
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What word means genetically inherited traits?

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Nature

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What word means anything in the environment that influences behavior?

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Nurture

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8
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Name the experiment which demonstrated the effect of teacher expectations on student achievement

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The Pygmalion Experiment

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Name the two individuals who conducted the Pygmalion experiment

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Robert Rosenthal
Lenore Jacobsen

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10
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Name ONE of the four ways teachers with high expectations act towards their students

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Nicer climate
More teaching
More opportunities to respond
More feedback

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11
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A prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true

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Self-fulfilling Prophecy

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The tendency to interpret new evidence as confirmation of one’s existing beliefs or theories

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Confirmation Bias

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13
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What does DSM stand for?

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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition

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14
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What year was homosexuality removed from the DSM?

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1973

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15
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Who was the main author of the book titled “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male”?

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Alfred Kinsey

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Name the early advocate for LGBTQ rights who helped remove homosexuality from the DSM

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Evelyn Hooker

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17
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Discredited treatment method that attempted to change a person’s sexual orientation

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Conversion Therapy

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18
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Drilling a hole in a person’s skull for medical purposes is called what?

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Trephination

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Name the two ancient Greek philosophers who created the Four Humors theory

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Hippocrates
Galen

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20
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Franz Gall believed bumps on the skull correlated with personality. This psychological approach is known as what?

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Phrenology

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21
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The Somatotype Theory suggests body type correlates with personality. Who advocated this belief?

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William Sheldon

22
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Name the philosopher who proved the existence of the mind

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Rene Descartes

23
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What does - cogito ergo sum - mean?

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I think, therefore, I am

24
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Who is considered the Father of the Scientific Method?

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John Locke

25
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What does TABULA RASA mean?

A

blank slate

26
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Kind of medical doctor who deals with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

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psychiatrist

27
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Kind of psychologist who treats people with mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

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clinical psychologist

28
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Who set up the first ever psychology laboratory in Leipzig, Germany?

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Wilhem Wundt

29
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What year did Wilhem Wundt set up the first psychology laboratory?

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1879

30
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Edward Titchener, a student of Wilhem Wundt, established which early approach to psychology?

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Structuralism

31
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What does Gestalt mean?

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whole pattern

32
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Name two Gestalt principles?

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proximity
closure

33
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What is the name of the American mental health activist who lobbied Congress to create asylums?

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Dorothea Dix

34
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The first ever psychology class was taught at Harvard in 1875 by whom?

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William James

35
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Who wrote the first psychology textbook?

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William James

36
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Which approach to psychology did William James advocate?

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Functionalism

37
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Who established America’s first research laboratory?

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G. Stanley Hall

38
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Who was the first president of the American Psychological Association?

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G. Stanley Hall

39
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Who was the first female president of the American Psychological Association?

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Mary Calkins

40
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Who was the first woman to earn her Ph.D. in psychology?

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Margaret Washburn

41
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Who is considered the father of the Theory of Evolution?

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Charles Darwin

42
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The process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

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natural selection

43
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What is the name of the 19th century English scientist, who was the cousin of Charles Darwin and who believed in eugenics?

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Sir Francis Galton

44
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The self-direction of human evolution is called what?

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eugenics

45
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Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by unconscious ideas?

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psychoanalytic

46
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Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by rewards and punishments?

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behaviorism

47
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Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by self-directed choices?

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humanism

48
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Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by how people remember and think?

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cognitive

49
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Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by the nervous system?

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biological

50
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Which approach to psychology believes behavior is determined by ethnicity, gender, and economic groups?

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social

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