Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

A subpopulation of a species, defined according to an identifiable characteristic (i.e., geographic location, skin color, hair texture, genes, facial features) is called ________.

The survey method of research involves ________.

One of structuralism's most important proponents was ________.

Each of the following is a current view discussed in your text in the controversy regarding ethics in psychological research except some people ________.

A group of psychologists at a cocktail party are discussing what kinds of questions are most usefully studied in the field of psychology. Which of the following pairs of psychologists is most likely to find agreement?

A therapist has you lie on a couch and describe your dreams, and say whatever comes into your mind. This therapist is using a technique known as ________.

Political polls taken before major elections are examples of ________ research.

Each of the following is a strategy described in the text for questioning assumptions and examining data except ________.

Psychologists use the scientific method to do each of the following except ________ what they study.

________ psychologists tend to see the mind as a general purpose computer that requires software (experience) to process information.

Psychology is a single, unified field.

In the early 1930s, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived among the people of Samoa. She recorded their behaviors and spent long hours talking with them, particularly with the young girls in whose development she was most interested. Her approach to gaining knowledge represents which of the following social science methods?

Explain the difference between gender and sex. Also, discuss what gender roles and gender stereotypes are and explain why they are important.

Freud argued that human beings are rational and have free will.

Positive psychologists are most similar in their beliefs to ________.

Expectations by the experimenter that might influence the results of an experiment or his or her interpretation are called ________.

Today women receive most of the PhDs granted in psychology.

Research involving the exploration of the extent to which people differ from one culture to another is called ________ research.

The scientific study of mental processes in the broadest sense - thinking, feeling, learning, and remembering - is ________ psychology.

The psychologist who developed humanistic theory was ________.