Exam 1: Introduction to Psychology

A psychologist is conducting an experiment to test the influence that coloured backgrounds of pages in textbooks have on the amount of information retained by students. She has a short text printed in three versions, each with a different colour of background. After students in three separate groups read their assigned text, she tests the students' retention. In this study, the retention of what the students read is the

Which of the following refers to an untested prediction about behaviour?

Which of the following is not true of correlation?

The research method that is used to explore cause and effect relationships between variables is

Population is to ________ as sample is to ________.

According to the text, which of the following is not a goal of applied research?

Sandy is interested in determining how long bear cubs stay with their mother. She spends several years studying their behaviour in Yellowstone Park, noting dates of birth and time of leaving mother for several bear families. This is an example of

Which of the following statements would most likely be endorsed by Sigmund Freud?

B. F. Skinner was the founding father of behaviourism.

John interviews 10 people about their memories from the first three years of their lives. He then writes an essay about early memory in humans. Which research method did he use to collect his data?

A good theory must be testable in a way that it could be proved wrong.

Define the potential problems in experimental research selection bias, the placebo effect, and experimenter bias. Explain how random assignment and the double-blind technique help control for these problems.

Psychologists are required to debrief (inform) subjects thoroughly after a research study when the study

The textbook describes Skinner's behaviourism as a "blind alley."

The experimental method is the only research method that can be used to identify cause-effect relationships between variables.

Of the following, which statement would most likely be endorsed by a functionalist?

The perspective that is defined as focusing upon how humans adapt to various environmental pressures is known as

What was the goal of the early school of psychology known as functionalism?

Historically, which of the following groups has not been properly represented as subjects in psychological research?

According to the text, which of the following statements is not true of the subjects in psychological research over the last 30 years?