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Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

In an experiment on attitudes, participants are given either positive or negative information about a speaker and then asked to evaluate the effectiveness of the speaker. In this experiment, which is the independent variable?

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The type of information the participant is given

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Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

_________ emphasizes that personality is primarily unconscious or is beyond awareness, thus enduring patterns that make up personality are largely unavailable to out conscious awareness and they powerfully shape our behaviors.

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Psychodynamic Perspective

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Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

At this stage (2 – 7 years), the child is capable of symbolic thought – however, this thinking is still quite different from that of adults. It is often “illogical” in ways that reveal the unique nature of preoperational cognition

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Preoperational Stage

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Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

A term in classical conditioning wherein a response is elicited by the conditioned stimulus.The shape of the lens of the eye must change to focus the visual image on the retina from stimuli that are different distances from the eye.

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Accommodation

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Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

Environmentalpsychology explores the effects of physical settings in most major areas of psychology including perception, cognition, learning, and others. This coordinates information between the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

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corpus callosum

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Awesome StudentQuestion • Introduction to Psychology

According ___________self-actualization is the motivation to develop one’s full potential as human being. A person at this optimal level of existence would be tolerant of others, have a gentle sense of humor, and be likely to pursue the greater good.

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Paul believes that physical attractive people are selfish. He conducts a study to see if he is right. He goes up to five people he thinks are good looking and asks them for spare change. They all turn him down. Paul concludes “Aha! I knew it all along.” The operational definition of selfish in Paul’s study is _______________.

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