Exam 1: Psychology As a Science

The year is 1895,and you have just defended your doctoral dissertation at Harvard.It was hailed as "the most brilliant examination for the Ph.D.that we have had at Harvard," but you were not awarded your Ph.D.Who are you?

An organized system of ideas that seeks to explain why two or more events are related is called a ____.

The ____ perspective is an approach to psychology that emphasizes human beings' innate capacity for personal growth and their ability to consciously make choices.

Approximately what percentage of research published in psychology journals uses animals as subjects?

____ is the ability to generate sufficient interest in other scientists so that the theory is tested and extended to a wide variety of behavior.

Which approach to psychology attempts to understand behavior and mental processes by examining the nervous system?

Sasha lives in a(n)____ society in which people tend to trust group decisions,people's identities are primarily given by their groups,and group goals are more important than personal goals.

Which person is most closely associated with the evolutionary perspective?

Which approach to psychology studies how the unconscious mind shapes behavior?

You are a professor at Harvard University.You teach and conduct research in your particular area of specialization,which studies how people are influenced by relatively stable internal traits.Which subject are you most likely to teach?

One of the chief benefits of participant observation is that it ____.

What perspective are you embracing if you feel you have an innate capacity for personal growth and can consciously make your own choices?

In his Bobo doll experiments,Bandura assigned half of the participating children to observe an aggressive adult and half to observe a nonaggressive adult.He assigned the children in such as way that each child had an equal chance of being in either condition.This procedure is called ____.

What is the relatively new psychological perspective that studies optimal human functioning and is a direct descendent of humanistic psychology?

Whose research provided the scientific justification for the U.S.Supreme Court to end the practice of racially segregated education in the 1954 Brown vs.Board of Education decision?

Scientists determine the predictive accuracy of a theory by ____.

The variable manipulated in an experiment is called the ____.

Name two traits that are often seen as impediments to proper self-growth in a collectivist society.

According to John Watson,which of the following would be a proper study of psychology?

Which was the philosophy that formed the basis for behaviorism?