Major Field Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

John Watson is to Edward Titchener as ________ is to ________. observable behavior; inner sensations The fact that many happy and well-adjusted adults were once rebellious and unhappy as adolescents is most relevant to the issue of: stability or change You come home one night to find a burglar in your house. Your heart starts racing and you begin to perspire. These physical reactions are triggered by the: sympathetic nervous system Repeatedly washing your hands is to ________ as repeate...

Balance Sheet Attempts to describe the financial condition of the firm at a point in time. Includes: Assets, Liabilities, & Equity - "net assets" what remains after deducting liabilities from assets.. Income Statement Presents the results of the operations of an entity over a peroid of time. Includes: Revenues, Expenses, Income, Gains & Losses Statement of Equity or Statement of Retained Earnings (Capital) Bridges the gap between the income statement and the balance sheet. Arrangement d...

Behavior and mental processes - ANSWER-Psychology is the scientific study of Philosophy and physiology - ANSWER-What are the "parent" fields for psychology? 125 - ANSWER-Psychology is about ___ years old Wundt - ANSWER-Who was the person who established psychology as a separate science? Consciousness - ANSWER-What was the subject of structuralism? Introspection - ANSWER-You volunteer to be a participant in a psychology experiment. The researcher asks you to carefully analyze how...

Broca's Aphasia - ANSWER-a condition characterized by difficulties in language production Wernicke's Aphasia - ANSWER-a condition marked by impaired recall of nouns and impaired language comprehension despite fluent and grammatical speech phoneme - ANSWER-a unit of sound morpheme - ANSWER-a unit of meaning word-superiority effect - ANSWER-identify the letter more accurately when it is part of a word then when it is presented by itself fixations - ANSWER-when your eyes are statio...

Initiatives, referenda and recall are examples of ... - ANSWER-Direct popular democracy Who opposed the ratification of the us constitution in 1787? - ANSWER-Anti-federalists Which clause of the Constitution makes federal laws superior to all state and local laws that contradict them? - ANSWER-Supremacy First words of the bill of rights? - ANSWER-"Congress shall make no law..." Who does not get government provided healthcare in the USA? - ANSWER-Children The majority of the Amer...

secondary data usually cost less - ANSWER-In marketing research, a firm might consider using secondary data over primary data because enforcement of internal policies - ANSWER-In organizational decision making, managers are able to exercise the greatest degree of discretion in the current assets less short-term liabilities - ANSWER-The term "net working capital" refers to $700 - ANSWER-Raw material costs $3 per pound and direct production labor is paid $4 per hour. Fixed supervisory ...

Which of the following best describes an open systems approach? A)A set of unrelated parts that individually interact with the environment B) Interdependent parts that do not interact with the environment C) Related parts in a static relationship with the environment D) Interdependent parts in a dynamic relationship with the environment - ANSWER-D) Interdependent parts in a dynamic relationship with the environment Which of the following describes what a person does in a particular job...

D) $328,000 - ANSWER-1. If a company sold merchandise for a $230,000 cash down payment and $310,000 on account and if the cost of the merchandise sold is $212,000, what is the amount of gross profit? (A) $18,000 (B) $98,000 (C) $310,000 (D) $328,000 (C) $618,000 - ANSWER-2. A company issued a $600,000, 12 percent, 90-day note payable to acquire an office building. What is the maturity value of the note? (A) $72,000 (B) $600,000 (C) $618,000 (D) $672,000 (A) $116,000 - ...

In marketing research, a firm might consider using secondary data over primary data because (A) secondary data usually cost less (B) secondary data are usually more accurate (C) primary data are usually non specific (D) primary data are likely to be outdated - ANSWER-(A) secondary data usually cost less In organizational decision making, managers are able to exercise the greatest degree of discretion in the (A) enforcement of internal policies (B) settlement of legal disputes (C) restru...