Exam 1: Introduction to Psychology

__________ is an experiment in which neither the participants nor the individuals running the experiment know if participants are in the experimental or the control group until after the results are tallied.

Wilhelm Wundt used the method of introspection.

Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of critical thinking?

Dr. Gertzman works in a hospital clinic where she diagnoses and treats people with mental disorders. Dr. Gertzman is a __________

Researchers must report their results completely whether the hypothesis was supported or not. Complete reporting is necessary for the purpose of ______________.

We are not passive creatures who respond reflexively to environmental reinforcements and punishments. We use reasoning and problem solving strategies to make decisions that shape our lives. This argument summarizes the main point of __________

What represents a distortion in a researcher's observation?

Jamaal, a practicing psychologist, prefers to choose from a combination of approaches when trying to deal with a specific client behavior. Jamaal takes a(n) __________ position.

Compare and contrast the two earliest perspectives of psychology. Be sure to include comparisons of founders, methods, and philosophies.

__________ research explores such topics as the nature of memory, brain function, or motivation.

Which of the following provides a likely example of two positively correlated variables?

Dr. Cornelius is conducting a longitudinal study with a group of women who are currently in their late thirties. He began the study when the women were ages 6 to 9 and is interested in the changes that occur in personality over a lifetime. Dr. Cornelius is a(n) __________ psychologist.

Pick a goal of psychology and provide a clear example of how it works.

When you watch dogs play in the park or watch how your professors conduct their classes, you are engaging in a form of __________.

A __________ includes all the subgroups within a given population in numbers that are proportionally equal to those found in that population.

The early perspective called Gestalt psychology has evolved into the current perspective called _______________.

The process of objectively evaluating claims, propositions, and conclusions to determine whether they follow logically from the evidence is known as __________

Which of the following is CORRECT concerning random assignment?

In Alan Lang's (1975) classic experiment on the effects of alcohol on aggression, Lang found ___________

The language used to report results of studies of older participants, such as "deteriorating" and "decline" may indicate the presence of __________