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Psychology is defined most accurately as the scientific study of behavior and the mind.
What is the definition of psychology?
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A cognitive psychologist.
What is a psychologist primarily interested in thinking process called.
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The work of Charles Darwin.
What is the name of the psychologist, whom Evolutionary psychology draws heavily from?
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Phobia.
What is an irrational and very specific fear that persists even when there is no real danger to a person called.
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Nature vs. Nurture debate
What is the issue in psychology that involves debate over the relative contributions of genetic inheritance versus the environment on behavior.
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Clinical and Counseling psychologist.
What is a psychologist that tries to identify the most effective ways for people to deal with the loss of life?
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Wilhelm Wundt.
What is the founder of psychology's name?
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Recall.
What is a kind of memory that you must tap into if you were asked to pick out a criminal from a line up after you had witnessed a crime?
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Hypothesis.
What is a testable prediction about behavior.
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Developmental psychologist.
What is a psychologist who looks for a relationship between the parenting styles of mothers and their children's self-esteem called?
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Wilhelm Wundt.
What is the name of the psychologist who founded the first laboratory of experimental psychology?
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Theories tend to be general and hypotheses tend to be specific statements.
What is the difference between a theory and a hypothesis?
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Interest in mental processes or behavior.
What is the main thing psychologists, no matter their field of study, share in common?
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Biopsychologist.
What is a psychologist who studies changes in the internal body activity of people affected by the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 called?
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Sigmund Freud.
What is the name of the psychologist who named the id, ego and superego?
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The left cerebral hemisphere.
What is the hemisphere, in right hander's, that is usually responsible for logical thinking and reasoning?
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At colleges or universities.
What is the location of greatest employment for psychologists?
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Experimental psychology.
What is the field of psychology, whose goal is to generally understand psychological processes rather than the application of that knowledge?
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B. F. Skinner.
What is the name of the father of operational conditioning?
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Random assignment.
What is the most controlled way to assign participants in a research experiment?
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