Exam 1: Psychology, Critical Thinking, and Science

When researchers set out to determine why more women attempted suicide but more men succeeded at it, they were attempting to meet which goal in psychology?

Regarding diversity in psychological research, which of the following statements is FALSE?​

The placebo effect is a form of

In 1868, Phineas Gage had a 13-pound steel rod impaled into the front of his brain by an explosion of dynamite.He survived the accident; and within two months, Gage could walk, talk, and move normally, but the injury forever changed his personality.In 1981, a Los Angeles carpenter named Michael Melnick suffered a similar injury and recovered completely, with no lasting ill effects.Melnick's different reaction to a similar injury shows why psychologists prefer

Taylor believes his behavior is guided by his own self-image and that he has the power to control his own fate and reach his full potential.Taylor has adopted which psychological perspective?

When psychologist Kyle Conlon and his colleagues reviewed previously published studies before beginning their own research on weight loss and noted that both goal-focused and achievement-focused approaches were popular, they were completing which step in the scientific method?

You are conducting an experiment to determine if listening to music improves learning.If there was no difference between the test performance of the experimental and control groups, then we can conclude that

In a positive correlation, decreases in one measure are matched by decreases in the other measure.

Which of the following psychologists CANNOT legally prescribe drugs?​

When one designs a system of ideas so that concepts and facts are interrelated in such a way that existing data is summarized and future observations can be predicted, then this system of ideas is known as a(n)

Which of the following psychologists became the first African-American man to earn a doctoral degree in psychology in 1920, was chair of the Psychology Department at Howard University, and wrote articles critical of the under-representation of African Americans in American colleges and universities ?

Critical thinking does NOT involve which of the following questions?

An advertisement promising to "unlock your hidden potential in just two hours!" should be suspect because

A researcher studying sleep deprivation finds that as the amount of sleep decreases, there is a proportional decrease in one's immune system.This illustrates a __________ correlation.

Which of the following psychologists would most often engage in basic research?

You are less likely to receive help if you have car trouble on a busy freeway than if you have car trouble on a sparsely traveled two-lane highway.Your ability to foretell your likelihood of receiving help illustrates the goal of

Token economies within institutions that utilize tangible rewards for appropriate behaviors and a loss of privileges for inappropriate behaviors would be an important area of study for

A theoretical question or statement, like "Will people lose more weight if they maintain a goal focus or if they maintain an achievement focus?", is too vague to be directly assessed.Therefore, theoretical questions are transformed into testable hypotheses through

In order to carefully control conditions and confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis about the causes of behavior, one must

To explain most behavior John B.Watson adopted the concept of conditioning proposed by the Russian physiologist named __________.