Psychology PostTest 2024

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Who is known as the "Father of Psychology?"

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Which of these is the most accurate definition of the discipline of psychology? Options: the scientific study of behavior and mental processes, the scientific study of mental processes, the scientific study of behavior, the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes

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the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

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Psychologists are interested in a number of things, such as_________________________.

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Learning, memory, growth and development.

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What does cognitive mean?

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refers to thinking, conscious and mental processes

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When she stands in front of her classmates, Miriam cannot recite a poem she had memorized. Miriam is

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displaying social inhibition.

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The Stanford Prison experiment demonstrated

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the power that situations can have in changing how people feel, think, and behave.

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Which of the following occurs when you agree to the request of another person even though you don’t think the request is right? Options: deindividuation, compliance, bystander effect, social loafing

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compliance

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The bystander effect increases with

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the size of the crowd.

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If a salesman convinced you to let him into your living room to talk about vacuum cleaners, he is using the

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foot-in-the-door technique.

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Who believed that the human mind develops through a series of stages and that our minds are always trying to make order out of what we take in through our senses?

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Jean Piaget