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Which level of psychology involves the study of molecules and brain structure?
What is the etic approach in psychology?
What is the emic approach in psychology?
What is naive realism in psychology?
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What is intuition in psychology?
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What is a scientific theory in psychology?
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What is a hypothesis in psychology?
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When is a theory developed in psychology?
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What does psychology as a science aim to prevent?
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What do good theories in psychology generate?
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Confirmation bias refers to the tendency to
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Belief perseverance refers to the tendency to
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Metaphysical claims are assertions about the world that are
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Pseudoscience refers to a set of claims that
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Ad hoc immunizing hypothesis refers to
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Pseudoscientific claims are rarely changed or updated, even with contradictory evidence, due to
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Over-reliance on anecdotes refers to
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Patternicity refers to the tendency to
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Our brains are predisposed to patternicity because
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Scientific skepticism involves
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Which of the following is one of the major explanations for a correlation between two variables, A and B?
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According to Principle #3 - Falsifiability, what must the proponent of a claim do in order for the claim to be falsifiable?
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What does Principle #4 - Replicability mean?
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According to Principle #5 - Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, what is the relationship between the persuasiveness of evidence and the contradiction to what we already know?
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What does Occam's Razor suggest when choosing between two explanations for a phenomenon?
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Which approach in the Biopsychosocial Model of Mental Health focuses on breaking down mental processes into basic components?
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Which approach in the Biopsychosocial Model of Mental Health emphasizes the mind's functions and adaptations based on evolutionary theory?
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Which approach in the Biopsychosocial Model of Mental Health focuses on learning principles and the use of scientific rigor?
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Which approach in the Biopsychosocial Model of Mental Health focuses on our interpretation of events, including how people think, perceive, remember, and learn?
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Which approach in the Biopsychosocial Model of Mental Health conceives mental processes outside of conscious awareness, specifically the influence of the unconscious mind on behavior?
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