Psy Ch1

1. Match the element of research design to its definition random assignment 1.what the researcher manipulates in an expt dependent variable 2.a statistic that indicates how closely 2 variables are related to each other correlation 3.what the researcher measures in an expt independent variable 4.a specific testable propostion about something you want to study hypothesis 5.the method of assigning treatments to participants in an expt

Submit

2. Psychologists use scientific methods to study:

Emphysema

Old age

Abnormalities

Behavior and mental processes

3. When Amanda told her therapist that she feels fine in the summer but drained and depressed in the winter, her therapist immediately ordered several tests on her nervous system. Amanda's therapist most likely takes which approach to therapy?

Biological

Behavioral

Psychodynamic

Cognitive

4. Darwin's book 'The Origin of Species' influenced this modern approach to psychology.

Evolutionary

Psychodynamic

Behavioral

Educational

5. Which is the only research method that can establish a cause-effect relationship?

Case study

Naturalistic observation

Experiment

Survey

6. Jon believes that exercise is a cause of higher levels of life satisfaction. If Jon plans to study this hypothesis experimentally, his independent variable would be the:

Amount of exercise his subjects receive

Level of life satisfaction before the exercise

Level of life satisfaction after the exercise

Physical health of his subjects

7. John Watson believed that psychology should limit itself to the study of

Emotions

Human consciousness

Unconsciousness mental processes

Observable behavior

8. Dr. Ivanov, a music teacher, is conducting a study on the effects of music education on children's verbal creativity. During piano lessons, he unconsciously plays word games with the children in the experimental group. Those games eventually contribute to their having higher verbal creativity scores. Dr. Ivanov's study is flawed due to

Experimenter bias

Double blind

Random

Placebo effect

9. The branch of psychology that deals with the unconscious is:

Structuralism

Psychoanalysis

Functionalism

Behaviorism

10. Modern, empirical, psychology began in the:

1600

1700

1800

1900

11. A random sample is one where:

All participants are randomly placed in their treatment group

All members of a population are equally likely to be selected

The participants enroll in their choice of experiments

The researcher selects which people will be studied based on their characteristics.

12. A cognitive psychologist would be MOST LIKELY to design a study of:

How people influence each other

What processes are involved in memory

Which charac make human have different personalities

How we can best analyze psychological data

13. Experimenter bias can be best fixed by using:

Double blind

Control groups

Placebos

Debriefing

14. A researcher at the university has students in the introductory psychology subject pool fill out a survey about life satisfaction. The introductory psychology subject pool represents a ________ sample of the human population.

Random

Biased

Representative

Placebo

15. Twenty volunteers are shown a movie about a party. After viewing, participants were asked to rate their reactions to movie using a scale that went from 1 to 7. In this example, what would be the data?

The participants

Movie

Party

Ratings

16. If you were to study consciousness by having your friends use introspection and report the results to you, your research method would be most similar to that used by:

Structuralists

Behaviorists

Psychoanalysts

Cognitive psychologists