ABSC 160 Unit 1 Test Questions and Complete Solutions
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Course
ABSC 160
Institution
ABSC 160
Folk wisdom Nounwisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common people of a country
Single subject Research Is a research design in which the subject serves as his/her own control, rather than using another individual/group
Equifinality is the principle that in open systems a given...
ABSC 160 Unit 1 Test Questions and
Complete Solutions
Folk wisdom ✅Nounwisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common
people of a country
Single subject Research ✅Is a research design in which the subject serves as his/her
own control, rather than using another individual/group
Equifinality ✅is the principle that in open systems a given end state can be reached by
many potential means
Empirical evidence (sense experience) ✅is the knowledge or source of knowledge
acquired by means of the senses, particularly by observation and experimentation
Skeptism ✅Judging the validity of a claim based on objective empirical evidence
Pseudoscience ✅Collection of beliefs or practices mistakenly regarded as being based
of the scientific method
Quantitative Change ✅Change little by little, smoothly over time. Continous
Qualitative Change ✅Stage theories
Unconscious Mind ✅Part of the mind that contains thoughts and feelings about which
we are unaware
Free Association ✅Process used by psychoanalysis in which one thinks of anything
that comes to mind in relation to a dream or another thought to reveal the contents of
the unconscious mind
Id ✅Part of personality that consists of the basic drives (sex, hunger, etc)
Pleasure Principle ✅Idea that the id seeks immediate gratification for all its urges
Ego ✅Part of personality that contends with the reality of the world and basic drives
Reality Principle ✅Ego has the ability to deal with the real world
Superego ✅Conscious, morals (develops between the ages of 5 and 7)
, Psychosexual Stages ✅Each stage's sexual energy is invested in a different part of the
body
Oral Stage ✅First stage, which infants' biological energy is centered on the mouth area
(birth to 18 months)
Anal Stage ✅Second stage, which toddlers' sexual energy is focused o the anus (18
months to 3 years)
Phallic Stage ✅Third stage, which ages 3 to 6 overcome their attraction to the opposite
sex parents and begin to identify with the same sex parent
Latency Stage ✅Fourth stage, when the sex drive goes underground (6 years to 12
years)
Genital Stage ✅Fifth and final stage, in which people 12 and older development
sexuality
Behaviorism ✅Focuses on environmental control of observable behavior
Social Cognitive Theory ✅Individuals learn by observing others and imitating their
behavior
Classical Conditioning ✅Process by which a stimulus (unconditioned) that naturally
evokes a certain response (unconditioned response) is paired with a neutral stimulus.
Eventually the neutral stimulus becomes the conditioned stimulus and evoked the same
response (now called the conditioned response)
Phobia ✅Irrational fear of something that is so severe that is interferes with day to day
to functioning
Operant Conditioning ✅Process that happens when the response that follows the
behavior causes that behavior to happen more
Reinforcement ✅Response to a behavior that causes that behavior to happen more
Negative Reinforcement ✅Something disagreeable is removed
Schedules of Reinforcement ✅Schedules on which reinforcement can be delivered
based on fixed/variable number of responses or fixed/variable lengths of time
Interval ✅Given after a particular amount of time. Can be fixed or variable
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