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1. Subjects judged the lengths of lines in an experiment 11. What psychologist had subjects deliver fake electric performed by on what group shocks to a learner in his obedience experiment?

phenomenon? answer: Stanley Milgram answer: conformity (accept answers that mention forms 12. What linguist outlined his theory of generative of conform) grammar in the book Syntactic Structures?

2. What law describes a series of sound changes answer: (Avram) beginning with voiceless stops becoming voiceless 13. Self‐actualization is at the top of what pyramidal fricatives, which affected the Germanic languages? construct devised by ? answer: Grimmʹs law answer: Maslowʹs hierarchy of needs 3. The James‐Lange theory and the Cannon‐Bard theory 14. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance are approaches to what psychological phenomenon? are the five stages in a popular model of what answer: emotions psychological process?

4. Categories such as ISTJ and ESFJ are possible results on answer: grief or grieving what personality test? 15. What Austrian psychoanalyst who broke from Freud answer: Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator (or MBTI) argued for the importance of the inferiority complex in 5. What stage, in which children develop object psychology?

permanence, is the first of the four stages in Jean answer: Alfred W. Adler Piagetʹs theory of cognitive development? 16. What psychologist used classical conditioning to make answer: sensorimotor stage dogs salivate when they heard the ringing of a bell?

6. What university was the site of an experiment whose answer: Ivan (Petrovich) Pavlov (accept Pavlovʹs dogs or subjects played the roles of prisoners and guards, Pavlov (dog) experiments) conducted by Philip Zimbardo? 17. John B. Watson and B. F. Skinner adopted what answer: Stanford University (accept Stanford prison psychological approach, which focuses on observable experiment) actions rather than mental phenomena?

7. and Max Wertheimer are members of answer: or behaviorist psychology (accept what psychological school, which started in Germany behaviorists) in the early 20th century? 18. The Stanford‐Binet test and the Wonderlic test are used answer: to measure what value?

8. What thinker hypothesized that human psychology is answer: intelligence or IQ or intelligence quotient driven by patterns called archetypes, including the 19. The phonological loop and the visuospatial sketchpad animus and the anima? are components of the “working” form of what answer: Carl (Gustav) Jung faculty?

9. What component joins the ego and the superego in answer: (working) memory (accept short‐term memory; Sigmund Freudʹs theory of the psyche? accept remembering or similar answers mentioning answer: id forms of the word remember or memory)

10. The Celtic, Romance, and Germanic language families 20. What Swiss linguist distinguished between the all belong to what larger language family? synchronic and diachronic study of language in his answer: Indo‐European languages book Course in General Linguistics?

answer: Ferdinand de Saussure