Psychology - General Psychology. QuixDoc 2

Which of the following represents the correct order of the steps of the scientific method?

Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

If you are describing your best friend to another person, you might rattle off a list of qualities to describe that individual. These qualities, or __________, are the building blocks of what we understand to be an individual's personality

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What is not a characteristic that women assign greater importance to in a potential mate?

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Wertheimer wrote that “arbitrary material can be arranged in arbitrary form and, after sufficient drill, made habitual.” What Gestalt principle does this illustrate?

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How did Hans Selye define stress?

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Paul is testing the effectiveness of a new treatment for anxiety disorders. He intends to administer the treatment to a group of participants and measure their levels of anxiety. What should Paul introduce into his research design to rule out factors other than the new treatment in the alleviation of anxiety?

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What is the correct sequencing of Piaget's stages of cognitive development?

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Common assays used to determine if infants are attending to objects study a form of:

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The growth spurt for girls typically begins around age __________.

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Which type of information processing is NOT considered effortful?

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Psychologists who give potential employees tests that determine what kind of job those employees might best perform are interested in the goal of __________.

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The _____ is the most widely used classification system for psychological disorders

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June's cat runs to the kitchen at the sound of the electric can opener, which she has learned is used to open her food when her dinner is about to be served. The cat does not run when a blender is used, although it sounds similar. June's cat is demonstrating stimulus

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Freud's initial professional training was in the area of

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In one study, healthy volunteers who reported experiencing little stress, acute stress, or chronic stress were exposed to a cold virus by having it swabbed in their noses. Which statement accurately describes the results of this study?

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Researcher Roger Sperry won a Nobel prize for his research on epilepsy. Sperry cut through the ________ which joins the two hemispheres of the brain

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An emergency room physician must quickly treat a patient who has been bitten by a black widow spider. The physician knows she must

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Which of the following accurately describes the fetal period?

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After a hundred patients with depression failed to respond to psychotherapy, they were given antidepressant drugs, and about one-fourth of them improved in the next few months. What can we conclude from these results, if anything? a. At least one-fourth of patients respond better to antidepressants than to psychotherapy. b. Switching from one type of treatment to another is helpful to many

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Mental representations of visual stimuli are referred to as _________ that are held in the sensory register called __________ memory

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Regarding the symptoms of depression, a motivational symptom like the lack of desire to get out of bed is different from its companion behavioral symptom, such as:

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An author has just written a book about the person who first proposed the process of classical conditioning. The book would be about:

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The difference between pure and applied research is the difference between

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Imagine that the parts of the brain can speak. As you look at a black widow spider coming towards you, which part would say, "It's my responsibility to determine if a stimulus has positive or negative emotional significance"?

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Correlations do not show __________

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A _______________ is a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental disorders and takes a more biological approach than other psychotherapists

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When tested with Karl Duncker's candle problem, five-year-old children showed no signs of functional fixedness because, compared to adults, the children

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Mark thinks that women should not be allowed to fight in professional martial arts events because they are not physically strong enough. His thinking is an example of

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Neural deafness can be treated with cochlear implants

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If a child learns that a dime is worth more than a nickel and a quarter is worth more than a dime, then the child will know that a quarter is worth more than a nickel. In relational frame theory, this is referred to as:

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The test grade Wanda receives in Professor Hoffman's class is determined by the percentage of items she gets correct on the test. Professor Hoffman is using the grading method known as:

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Most secondary educational programs:

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________ are networks of nerve cells that persist even after stimulation has stopped.

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