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What is psychology?
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"The systematic study of behavior and experience"
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The answer contains at least two components
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What does good research progress depend on?
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"Good measurement"
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You can't know how much you've improved, if you haven't been measuring your progress!
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Correlation does not indicate __________.
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"causation"
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"correlation" indicates SOME relationhip, but not necessarily that Thing One is dependent on Thing Two
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Q. Name two things that affect individual variation.
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A. Heredity and environment
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This is another way of saying "Nature vs nurture"
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What is the best predictor of future behavior?
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Past behavior in similar situations
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Organisms are fairly assistent in how they act...
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You should evaluate opinions in psychology based on
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Strength of evidence
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Define determinism.
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The assumption that any event has a cause in the observable world.
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Q. Define free will (as it applies to the philosophical debate in psychology)
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A. The belief that behavior is caused by a person's independent decisions.
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The view that the mind is separate from the brain, but controls the brain and body
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Dualism
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One of two philosophical views of the mind-brain problem.
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The view that conscious experience is inseparable from the physical brain
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Monism
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One of two philosophical views of the mind-brain problem.
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