Exam 1: Psychology, Critical Thinking, and Science

Students who do well on an intelligence test tend to do well in their school grades.This ability of the IQ tests to forecast future school success illustrates which goal of psychology?

When a psychologist draws and utilizes aspects from many different psychological theories and approaches, we say that the psychologist is

Many different experiments may be necessary to draw clear conclusions about hypothesized relationships in psychology because

In the prediction of personality, which of the following would be considered a pseudoscience?

Sigmund Freud's approach to psychotherapy is known as

In research, human subjects, but not animals, are referred to as

The manager of a grocery store shows you and your friend a tabloid headline "Flu Shots Have Been Proven to Cause the Flu." The manager says, "Those folks are right because every time I have ever taken a flu shot , I've gotten the flu." Your friend says, "Well, that settles it.I'm not taking a flu shot." As a critical thinker, what would you tell your friend?

One classic study of more than 3,000 predictions by famous astrologers found that more than half of their predictions were accurate.

Which contemporary view in psychology sees behavior as being shaped and controlled by one's environment?

"I seek to understand the principles whereby a person's ability to think, speak, perceive, and learn changes as they go through their life span." This statement identifies one as a _______ psychologist.

In an experiment, the group that serves as a point of reference for a comparison of results is the __________ group.

The pseudoscience that claims that personality traits are revealed through one's handwriting is __________.

One of the advantages of the correlational method is that

To determine whether weight loss is easier when you maintain a goal focus, Conlon and his colleagues assigned participants to one of three weight loss groups, goal-focused, achievement-focused, and no-focus control.Each group met for 12 weekly meetings and had access to a special website.Then,every week, goal-focused participants were asked to describe how much more weight they needed to lose to reach their goal, while achievement-focused participants were asked to describe how much weight they had already lost.At this point in their research, Conlon and his associates were completing which step in the scientific method?

Which type of variable is measured in both the experimental and control groups of an experiment?

A representative sample is chosen from an entire group of people belonging to a particular category, such as all college students or all married women, with this entire group being called the __________.

Which of the following is the best description of a research method?

Jake is a psychologist, who is interested in how people's behavior is affected by the language they speak, the foods they eat, the laws they obey, and how their families disciplined when they were children.Jake is most likely a __________ psychologist.

The contemporary view in psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behavior and the effects of learning and stresses the influence of external rewards and punishments is the __________ view.

The "whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is the slogan of the