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What did Freud believe dictated our behavior?

T or F: Unhindered observations of the natural environment is called naturalistic observation

What did the theory of evolution believe gave humans an advantage for survival?

Which branch of psychology focuses on the methods of learning and teaching?

T or F: central tendency refers to the typical/central value for probability distribution

T or F: Dorothea Dix started the first mental asylums in the U.S.

What type of conditioning refers to promoting or encouraging certain behaviors?

T or F: Humanism claims love and social acceptance were the primary drivers of behavior

Which thinker believed we were born as "blank slates," and could be molded into anything?

Who were the other two men that helped Wundt study and later started schools?

Which person is NOT a major figure in behaviorism

T or F: Operant conditioning refers to training someone/something to anticipate an event after a stimulus

T or F: sensations is the body receiving signals and stimuli

T or F: Anonymous questionnaires are surveys

Measurement of abilities, attitudes, and traits of human beings

T or F: The main problem with Wundt's theory is different perceptions

Observational study that analyzes data from a population, or a representative subset, at a specific point in time

How unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and uses that info to treat psychological disorders

The study of behavior and mental processes is:

Frequency distribution with a rightward skew due to its long tail on the positive direction on a number line

Figures who connected the mind and body

T or F: The experimental group receives the placebo

What school of thought replaced Freud's theories in the 1950's and 1960's?

T or F: a hypothesis is a testable prediction about an outcome

T or F: Freud believed that primitive desires may unconsciously drive us to behave the way we do

A study that attempts to discover if one factor causes another

T or F: the experimental group receives the treatment

Name one psychologist who advocated the new humanism field of psychology

Name of the first theory of psychology that believed the human mind worked in certain ways for all people

Institution(s) that provide psychological guidelines for studies in the US and UK

What field of psychology focuses on process of memory, learning, language, problem solving, etc?

Who conditioned little Albert to fear furry animals and objects by making a loud noise each time one was present?

All of the following are characteristics of a scatterplot except

A study in which neither the participants nor experimenters know which group received the treatment or placebo

Statistical term that measures how strong a relationship is between two variables

T or F: Bacon believed fluids were animal spirits that dictated our behavior and movement

Industrial-organizational does all of the following EXCEPT:

Person that believed that we attempt to make patterns in everything

T or F: operational definitions are detailed instructions and procedures for replicating experiments

Which two believed we were born with inherent knowledge?

Diagnosing, discussing, and treating mental illness is...

Encouraging acceptance of one's past, excitement and optimism about the future

All of the following are keys to a valid experiment EXCEPT

T or F: Piaget worked with the development of children

How expressions of emotions and behavior vary across cultures

Who experimented with rats to encourage certain behaviors?

Who came up with the theory of evolution?

What did Freud believe dictated our behavior?

T or F: Counseling helps people cope with crises and other lifestyle changes

Believed sensation and perception could affect ideas

T or F: Trait personalities look at persistent traits and characteristics of people

First female Ph. D

Who came up with the theory that all behavior was inherited via evolutionary processes

T or F: Experiments and observation in humans and animals is Developmental Psychology

Which female figure was denied a Ph. D because of her gender?

Which of the following is NOT a branch of contemporary psychology?

The study of a individual person or group in hopes of discovering a universal truth

Statistics in their base form are

The average measure of variance between scores around the mean

Internal and subjective experiences

T or F: negative skew is a frequency distribution with a leftward skew

Cognitive Psychology focuses on all of the following EXCEPT

Theory that believes all behavior was inherited via evolutionary processes

T or F: Randomly distributing a portion of the population into experimental groups to avoid bias is random assignment

T or F: Socrates believed we learned everything from experience

T or F: Developmental is changing abilities from womb to tomb

Biological psychology...

All of the following are basic rules that protect participants EXCEPT

General idea gathered from observation that predicts an outcome

Choosing a random portion of people from a given population for an experiment

Observational study in which data is gathered for the same subjects repeatedly over a period of time

Statistics from which an educated guess is made about the data

T or F: Pavlov conditioned dogs to drool at the sound of a bell by feeding them after ringing the bell

T or F: Psychology is what organisms do

T or F: the APA is a federally mandated committee that oversees institution's animal program, facilities, and procedures

John Locke is know for his idea of