Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

The term "race" refers to ________ heritage.

________ are interested in the workings of the brain and the nervous system.

A group of psychologists study human, mental, and physical growth from the prenatal period through childhood, adolescence, adulthood, and old age. They are most likely ________ psychologists.

Titchener believed psychologists should analyze complex experiences in terms of ________.

In Milgram's studies, "learners" who made errors were punished with ________.

A detailed, well-researched biography of a famous historical person is technically an example of the ________ method of research.

Social psychologists investigate the differences in traits among people.

Those with a bachelor's degree in psychology are qualified to do each of the following except ________.

An advantage to using naturalistic observation is observer bias.

Structuralism emphasized ________.

Before psychology was a formal discipline, it was a branch of the general field of ________.

Most psychologists agree that psychology, as a science, was born in ________.

Each of the following is a problem in conducting naturalistic observation except ________.

People who participate in an experiment, whose reactions or responses are observed as part of the experiment, usually to test the validity of a hypothesis, are called ________.

Someone who is attracted to members of the same sex has a(n) ________ orientation.

The name Pavlov gave to his method for training his dogs was reinforcement.

When applied to perception, Gestalt refers to ________.

In Milgram's studies on obedience, how many subjects gave the maximum amount of shock to the learners?

________ psychologists tend to see the mind as having "psychological circuits" so that human beings are predisposed to act in certain ways.

Personality theories contending that personality results from various psychological forces that interact within the individual, often outside the conscious awareness of the individual, are ________ theories.