Exam 1: Psychology As a Science

In an experiment on the effect of alcohol on performance,subjects are randomly assigned to drink different amounts of alcohol before completing a performance task.This means that ____.

A researcher wants to study the effect of sleep deprivation on reaction time.After receiving varying levels of sleep,the reaction times of all participants are recorded.In this experiment,reaction time is the ____.

Self-reports,direct observations and archival information are all basic techniques of ____.

Which of the contemporary perspectives within psychology has promoted the scientific study of self-awareness,love,helping behaviors,and positive personality growth?

A researcher decides to study homeless people in their natural environment by becoming homeless himself.This is an example of ____.

In the control condition of an experiment,participants are not exposed to the ____.

Why is it important that researchers report their results?

Which of the following is an advantage of naturalistic and participant observation research?

Behaviorist John Watson once described the brain as "a black box forever mysterious." The discoveries in which psychological field helped in disproving this statement?

Which psychological approach has been criticized as the least scientifically based of all contemporary perspectives?

Which of the following women established one of the first psychology labs in the U.S. ,pioneered research in short-term memory,and in 1905 became the first woman president of the American Psychological Association?

Why does the theory of evolution qualify as a scientific theory but creation science does not?

Which type of research method examines cause-and-effect relationships?

Albert Bandura studied whether children would imitate aggressive behavior in his well-known Bobo doll experiments.Half of the children observed an adult behaving aggressively with a Bobo doll;the other half observed an adult playing nonaggressively with toys.The children observing the nonaggressive adult were in the ____.

Professor Sanchez studies how the brain communicates with itself and other body organs,including biochemical processes occurring at microscopic levels.He is most likely a(n)____.

The term psychology comes from the Greek words psyche,meaning ____,and logos,meaning ____.

An experiment is conducted to investigate the effect of codeine on pain reduction.The amount of codeine given to each subject by the experimenter is the ____.

Which method of inquiry is common in clinical work,in which psychotherapists provide an extensive description of a person suffering from a particular psychological disorder to illustrate the factors that lead to and influence it?

Inferential statistics are used to ____.

Researchers often begin data analysis by performing statistics that summarize the characteristics of their particular sample.These types of statistics are called ____.