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Casey is putting mustard on her hot dog. She realizes she has put too much and sucks up some of it back into the squeeze bottle. This process is similar to __________.

Critical thinking means making judgments based on __________.

The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered that dogs would salivate to the sound of a ticking metronome due to __________.

__________ is a brain-imaging method that takes computer-controlled X-rays of the brain.

Hunter is a fan of the Boston Celtics basketball team. With little provocation, he will engage his friends in a debate about whether it is the greatest team in basketball. Hunter may be demonstrating __________.

The part of the occipital lobe that is responsible for receiving visual information from the eyes is called the __________.

The school of psychology known as structuralism used a technique called __________, which involved reporting the contents of consciousness to study a person’s experiences.

Jake’s car broke down and smoke started rising from the engine. He felt lucky to have broken down while parked in the center of town during lunch hour, when many people were outside and could help. However, 30 minutes has passed and despite the heavily populated area, nobody has offered assistance. Jake’s experience is an example of the __________.

Early in psychology’s history, research participants might have been asked to view a chair and describe its color, shape, and texture and other aspects of their conscious experience. These individuals would have been using a method called __________.

Which psychologist was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in educational psychology in 1925?