Exam 1: Power Learning: Becoming an Expert Student

In a test of a new antianxiety medication, participants are given either the medication or a placebo; the personnel administering the study, moreover, do not know which participants receive the medication and which receive the placebo. This experiment may be described as a(n) _____ procedure.

Gestalt psychology may be seen as a reaction to ________.

Regarding theories, which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following is an example of a question that is answered using the scientific method?

The formal beginning of psychology is associated with:

Which of the following sequences correctly arranges the steps in the scientific method from first to last?

Each of the following is a descriptive research technique EXCEPT:

Correlational research is research in which:

In order to study mind and behavior, psychologists:

The approach that views behavior from the perspective of the brain, the nervous system, and other biological functions is known as the ________ perspective.

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons that college students are so often used as participants in psychological research?

________ is a procedure used to study the structure of the mind in which subjects are asked to describe in detail what they are experiencing when they are exposed to a stimulus.

How do clinical psychology and counseling psychology differ?

How is it that the experimental method allows researchers to draw cause-and-effect conclusions? Identify the critical elements of the experimental method, and explain how each helps enable the development of valid causal conclusions.

The emphasis of the humanistic perspective is on:

Experimental research requires that the responses of ________ group(s) be compared.

Which of the following descriptive research methods is correctly matched with its description?

Dr. Carruthers is using crime statistics available in a federal database as part of a study. Dr. Carruthers is conducting a(n):

Factors that distort the way an independent variable affects a dependent variable are referred to as:

Dr. MacGyvers is a developmental psychologist, Dr. Cooper is a cross-cultural psychologist, and Dr. Breaux is a cognitive psychologist. For each of these psychologists, briefly define the subfield in which he or she specializes and suggest one issue or question in which he or she might be especially interested.