Define Introspection In Psychology Flashcards

Wilhelm Wundt's laboratory work involved experimental studies of

Introspection was the basic research tool used by ________ in order to study people's inner sensations and mental images.

William James was a prominent American

Edward Titchener is to structuralism as William James is to ________.

Behaviorists dismissed the value of

John Watson is to Edward Titchener as ________ is to ________.

Innate ability is to learned skill as ________ is to ________.

Efforts to discover whether the intelligence of children is more heavily influenced by their biology or by their home environments are most directly relevant to the debate regarding

Charles Darwin attempted to explain the ________ that he had encountered.

Complementary accounts of the same behavior that can supplement one another represent different

Which perspective would help us to understand the impact of strokes and brain diseases on memory?

Which perspective most clearly focuses on how we learn observable responses?

Which psychological perspective is most likely to be concerned with identifying the powers and the limits of human reasoning?

Clinical psychologists specialize in

The specialist most likely to have a medical degree is a

The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to

Giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding and the other half an opposite result is an easy way to demonstrate the impact of

The scientific attitude of humility is most likely to be undermined by

By testing their predictions by observing human behavior, psychologists are using

The simplified reality of laboratory experiments is most helpful in enabling psychologists to

Studying people of all races and cultures is most helpful for

In an effort to prevent participants in an experiment from trying to confirm the researchers' predictions, psychologists sometimes

Professor Shalet contends that parents and children have similar levels of intelligence largely because they share common genes. His idea is best described as a(n)

A hypothesis is a(n)

A statement describing how a researcher measures a research variable is known as a(n)

The case study is a research method in which

In which type of research is a representative, random sample of people asked to answer questions about their behaviors or attitudes?

Which of the following is most useful for helping survey researchers avoid false generalizations?

Psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzee societies in the jungle are using a research method known as

Correlation is a measure of the extent to which two variables

To represent graphically the correlation between two variables, researchers often construct a

A correlation between physical attractiveness and dating frequency of +0.60 would indicate that

A negative correlation between degree of wealth and likelihood of suffering from a psychological disorder would indicate that

On a series of coin tosses, Oleg has correctly predicted heads or tails seven times in a row. In this instance, we can reasonably conclude that Oleg's predictive accuracy

Researchers use experiments rather than other research methods in order to distinguish between

To assess the impact of test difficulty on persistence of effort, researchers plan to give one group of children relatively easy tests and another group more difficult tests. To reduce the chance that the children in one group are more intelligent than those in the other group, the researchers should make use of

Both the researchers and the participants in a memory study are ignorant about which participants have actually received a potentially memory-enhancing drug and which have received a placebo. This investigation involves the use of

A normal curve would approximate the distribution of

As the size of a representative sample increases, the ________ of that sample is most likely to decrease.

Differences between two sample averages are most likely to be statistically significant if