Exam 1: Introduction and Research Methods

If you were assigned a term paper examining the life of the "father of psychology," which name should you begin researching?

The BEST definition of an experiment is _____.

Researchers gave participants varying amounts of a new "memory" drug.Then they gave them a story to read, and measured their scores on a quiz.The _____ would be the independent variable (IV)and the _____ would be the dependent variable (DV).

A number that indicates the degree and direction of the relationship between variables is called a/an _____.

In a drug study to test the effectiveness of a new drug for treating the common cold, you are randomly assigned to a group that gets the drug.This means that you _____.

A placebo is defined in your text as _____.

Your text defines a hypothesis as a _____.

If you wanted to study someone with a rare disorder such as photophobia (the fear of light), your BEST research option would be a/an _____.

Your research class conducted an experiment on caffeine-induced stress in which neither the class researchers, nor the participants in the experiment, knew who did and did not receive caffeine until after the study was completed.This research technique is called a(n)_____.

The idea that depression is influenced by genetics and neurotransmitters rather than events in a person's life represents the _____ model of psychology.

Which of the following correlation coefficients indicates the strongest relationship between two variables?

Ashlee is a researcher interested in whether boys or girls grow more as a result of eating high-protein breakfast cereal.She has a control group from St.Thomas Academy in Boston that eats regular cereal and an experimental group from an all-girls school in Wichita that eats a high-protein cereal.She then measures the growth of each group at three-month intervals.Although Ashlee manipulates variables in her study, it is not a true experiment because it lacks ________.

SQ4R stands for ____________________.

Molly is a clinical psychologist doing therapy with a man who has reported his wife has been unfaithful.He tells Molly he is going to go home and kill his wife.What does Molly do in this case?

Stephanie wants to observe how her 2-year-old, Olivia, is behaving at daycare, so she watches through the door so that Olivia cannot see her watching.Which research strategy is Stephanie trying to use?

The psychological school of thought called _____ emphasized how mental processes help people adapt to their environment.

What is one advantage of survey research that was mentioned in your text?

According to Abraham Maslow, the goal toward which human beings all strive to develop is called ________.

Timothy has been reluctant to ask or answer questions in the classroom because when he spoke in his second-grade class, his peers laughed at him.This example demonstrates psychology's goal of ________ behavior.

Natural selection, adaptation, and the ongoing development of behavior patterns are major emphases in the _____ perspective of psychology.