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General Psychology Exam
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/09/2013

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1. A teacher suspects that her students are usually quiet during her Monday morning classes because they stay up late on Sunday Nights She believe that if she monitored the times they went to bed, she would find that the sleepy ones went to bed later than the more alert ones. In scientific terms, her hunch, or suspicion of what she would find if she monitored her students is called
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theory
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2. Jean, a divorced mother with two children, married Harry, a widower with a teenage daughter. From the onset of her relationship with Harry, jean had difficulty in relating to his daughter. Once married the family problems between stepmother and stepdaughter became exacerbated. Who might be consulted?
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a counseling psychologist
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3. The functionalist expanded the study of psychology to include behavior as well as consciousness and asked how mental processes and behavior
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assisted the organism to adapt to the environment
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4. If you were to conduct an experiment on the effects of temperature on aggressive behavior, temperature would be the ______________ variable
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independent
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n a resting state, fluid on the inside of the neuron is _________ charged relative to the outside.
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negatively
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