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Research suggests that stress-producing events are? - Answer-- Universal _______ is the term used to describe physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral responses to events that are threatening or challenging. - Answer-- Stress The tendency to overestimate people's fragility and underestimat...

Psychology - Answer-the scientific study of behavior and mental processes Origins - Answer-trace back to philosophy and physiology Origins: Aristotle - Answer-wrote about dreams, memory, sleep Nature vs. Nurture - Answer-Do your genes or environment have a bigger impact on you Rene Descartes - A...

Psychology - Answer-the scientific (empirical) study of behavior and mental processes Psychology seeks to: - Answer-Describe behavior and mental processes Understand Predict Modify Subdisciplines of Psych - Answer-Human Developmental/Family Cognitive/Psycholinguistics Developmental/Child Ind...

# of people with a BA in psych - Answer-3.4 million # of people with a Ph D or Psy D in psych - Answer-207,000 # of divisions in the APA - Answer-56 3 elements that define science - Answer-systematic empiricism, production of public knowledge, examination of solvable problems systematic empiric...

Thinking Definition - Answer-any mental activity or processing of information, including learning, remembering, perceiving, communicating, believing, and deciding What is cognitive economy? - Answer-The use of heuristics to reduce mental effort while still getting things right most of the time W...

Developmental psychology - Answer-The study of how behaviour changes over an individual's lifespan Post Hoc Fallacy - Answer-(A then B) != (A causes B) Bidirectional Influences - Answer-Development influences experiences, experiences influence development Cohort Effect - Answer-Differences in g...

William james - Answer-founded functionalism G. stanley Hall - Answer-founded first psych research lab in the US sigmund freud - Answer-founded psychoanaysis john b. watson - Answer-founded behaviorism b.f. skinner - Answer-behaviorist carl rogers - Answer-founded humanistic psych abraham masl...