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The Psych for Your Life feature in Ch. 1 of your textbook presented five research-based suggestions to help you study more effectively. Which of these is NOT one of those suggestions?

_____ became the first Black American president of the American Psychological Association in 1970.

Dr. Bremmer investigates mental processes, including reasoning and thinking, problem solving, memory, perception, and language. Dr. Bremmer is a _____ psychologist.

A negative correlation is found when one variable _____ and the second variable _____.

Neuroscience, an area within the _____ perspective, emphasizes the importance of the brain and nervous system in explaining people’s behavior.

In collectivistic cultures, a person’s sense of identity is:

The established science most responsible for the emergence of psychology as a scientific discipline was:

The part of the human body with the largest number of neurons is the brain, with the _____ having the second largest number of neurons.

Someone who uses her own culture as the standard for judging other cultures is said to be:

Studies have reported that students who report spending more time reading for pleasure, have higher reading comprehension scores on standardized tests. Based on this result, you would be justified in stating that: