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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
11/16/2011

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Wilhelm Wundt
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established first psychological lab
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John Watson
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introduced classical conditioning to advertising
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William James
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established functionalism and applied psychology
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Edward Titchener
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established structuralism
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Psychology
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Science of behavior and profession that applies its science to practical problems
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Tabula Rasa
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Blank slate
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Mary Whiton Caulkins
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first women to be president of the American psych. Association.
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Micro level of analysis
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Examining action potentials of neurons
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Evolutionary
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Natural selection and mating preferences among human beings
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developmental psychologist
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Psychologist who are interested in behavioral and cognitive changes over time
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Difference/s between a psychiatrist and clinical psychologist
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Psychiatrist-trained medical doctor, can prescribe medication, and employs the disease model.
Clinical Psychologist-utilizes a holistic approach
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Unstructured/Informal interview
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least effective strategy to select potential employees
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Organizational psychologist
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applied psychologists that are interested in how work environments and leadership/management styles affect employee motivation
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Factors associated with a successful entrepreneur
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Unyielding optimism, advanced social skills, and intrinsically motivated
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Organization citizenship
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an award for increasing morale and welfare of employees
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Engaged
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an employee that is highly involved and identifies with job
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Structuring
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a management strategy that delegates and directs employees
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Task
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type of leadership that focuses on organizational goals
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"Curse of Knowledge"
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knowing something after that something was known
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FLOW
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In the zone on auto pilot.. totally engaged...
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Human factor Psychologist
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Deals with people's anger over usability
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characteristics of Conviction prone juror
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well educated, high in social status, conservative, and Caucasian
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Hindsight Bias
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I knew it all along phenomenon
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Scientific Attitude
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Having a work like attitude trying to improve and learn
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Not a descriptive method in psychological science
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Survey, naturalistic observation, case study
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Significance of the Stanley Milgram obedience experiment
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cannot assume common sense explanations about human nature
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Strongest correlation coefficient
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-0.95
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Employes random assignment
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How do psychologist increase "control" in an experiment
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Mode
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statistical measure of central tendency procedure
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Independent variable
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manipulated in an experiment definition
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Operational
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procedure to describe and measure a variable
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Illusory correlation
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relationship towards variable where none exist
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Double blind
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employed in placebo studies
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Phrenology
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studies the relationships between a person's skull
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Dendrites
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the structure that receives action potentials from other neurons
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Frontal lobe
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controls memory
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Myelin Sheath
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Regulates the speed of action potentials
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Serotonin
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Neurotransmitter that regulates with sleep and mood regulation
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Reuptake
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Reabsorbs neurotransmitters back into the synaptic vesicles
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sympathetic
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Nervous system that reacts to certain situations example fight or flight
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Hypothalamus
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Regulates hunger thirst sex
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Cerebellum
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Brain stem that regulates complex movement
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Brain technologies
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Pet Scan, MRI , EEG
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Discontinuous
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stage like development
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amygdala
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rage and aggression
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occipital lobe
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visual processing
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Plasticity
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Compensating brain function
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Convolutions
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tucking and folding of the cerebral cortex
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embryonic
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perennial stage that is most vulnerable to teratogens
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Cephalocaudal development
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Head to foot growth
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Object permanence
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milestone of sensory motor development
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Accommodated
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applying logic
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Contact comfort
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basis of the infants first attachment
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Menarche
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female's first menstruation episode
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Authoritative
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related to positive child development
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Secondary sexual characteristics
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hitting puberty
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Imaginary audience
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being self conscious
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Identity
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dynamic self structure achieved in adolescence
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Fluid Intelligence
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declines with age
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Off time
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getting married for the first time in one's forties
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Conditioned Response
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Pavlov called this psychic secretion
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Modeling
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Observational learning
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Classical conditioning has been applied to...
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Advertising, Fear or conditioning phobias, and falling in love
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Reinforcement
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Not associated with classical conditioning
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"BoBo" the clown experiment was an attempt to investigate...
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modeling and aggression
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Operant conditioning
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"Law of Effect" that is closely related to the learning approach
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Reinforcement
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A response outcome that increases the probability of response.
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Variable ratio
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A slot machine is on what type of reinforcement schedule
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Primary and delayed
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going to dinner waiting for ever then having a great meal
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When an organism displays observationl learning(1) neurons are activated in the (2)
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1. Hypothalimic and 2. frontal
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latent learning
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refers to learning taking place without reinforcement
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Preparedness
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Associated with acquiring some fears and not others
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shaping
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an operant conditioning application
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savant
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an extreme form of memory
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Hippocampus
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Damage to this impairs short term memory
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unknown storage capacity
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associated with human memory
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Flashbulb memory
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remembering Sept 11th where you were
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Distributed or spaced practiced
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taking advice and getting results from it
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semantic
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encoding that leads to better recall
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sensory memory
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memory storage that has the shortest duration but unlimited capacity
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implicit
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unconcious emotional patterns relating to ourselves and others
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Tip of the tongue phenomenon
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having a name or word so close like its on the tip of your tongue
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state dependent
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having the same thing or doing the same thing when studying and taking the test
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motivated theory of forgetting
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Freud's view of repression
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proactive interference
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when different things that have been studied are interfering with each other
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Source Amnesia
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Confusing the origins of our memories
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Misinformation effects
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occurs in courtroom eyewitness testimony
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Behavior Genetics
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Examines the contributions of nature and nurture on individual differences
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Temperament
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the soil which personality grows
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Heritability
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Proportion of variation attributed to genes
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things that relates to mating preferences among males
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Prefer younger mate, prefer physical attraction, and comfortable with casual sex
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lab rats experience an enriched cage environment shows....
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increased synaptic connections and increased brain volume
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Selection effect
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adolescents gravitate toward peers who have similar attitudes, interests, and etc.
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"Collective" culture
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places the family first before the individual
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Women tend to be more...
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nurturant
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considered an area of cognitive psychology
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Problem solving, decision making, and language
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Representativeness heuristic
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Judging people on their looks
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Functional fixedness
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tendency to think of objects only in terms of their normal uses
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Trial and error problem solving
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figuring something out until it works
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Language is symbolic
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to say that language has a representative function
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Language pragmatic
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saying the right thing at the right time
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Nativist theory
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deals with biological belief that language is an innate feature of the infant
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Metalinguistic awareness
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ability to objectify language as a process as well as a thing
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boys are most likely to experience the Oedipus complex during...
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Phallic
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Extraversion
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one of the "Big Five" personality traits that suggest one is sociable
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Displacement
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taking out emotions on someone else
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External locus of Control
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Behavior outcomes left to chance
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Self Actualized
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fulfilling ones individual potential
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Traits
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predict behavior some of the time
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Neofreudians
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Alder, Horney, and Jung
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Excessive Optimism
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Blind us to real risks
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