Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Freud stressed the importance of ________.

Double-blind studies control for ________.

Which of the following is NOT associated with Gestalt psychology?

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

Objective introspection requires:

The method of psychological research which utilizes a control group, a dependent variable, and an independent variable is

Which type of early psychologist believed that "the whole is more than the sum of its parts"?

The question "What is happening?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?

Observing behavior as it happens in real-life natural settings without imposing laboratory controls is known as the __________.

Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis focused on

A weakness of ________ is that subjects participating in the research often report, consciously and unconsciously, inaccurate information.

Anything that follows a response, making that response more likely to recur, is __________.

A detailed, well-researched biography of a famous historical person is technically an example of the __________ method of research.

Which school of psychology assumes that human activity cannot be broken down into separate units for analysis but must be evaluated as wholes?

A correlation coefficient is a numerical measure of the ________.

If explanation of the causes of thoughts, feelings, and behavior is a psychologist's goal, then the __________ method of research should be used.

Why is it essential that the experimental and control groups be treated identically in every respect but one?

If Dr. Byers uses an eclectic approach in her clinical treatment of children, what is it that she is doing?

In an experiment, a researcher manipulates one variable to see how it affects a second variable. The manipulated variable is called the __________.

A perfect correlation, whether positive or negative, is _____________in the real world.