Exam 1: Introductionand Research Methods

In Crum and Langer's hotel experiment, the group of participants who were informed that housekeeping work was good exercise was the:

In the Crum and Langer hotel experiment, half the participants were given the health supplement ginkgo biloba and the other half were given a placebo.

Biological psychologists study the relationship between psychological processes and the body's physical systems,including the brain and the rest of the nervous system, the endocrine system, the immune system, and genetics.

The use of deception in psychology experiments has been banned by the American Psychological Association since the1960s.

The participants in the Crum and Langer hotel experiment were not individually assigned to the experimental or control group but instead each hotel was randomly assigned to one of the two conditions.

The primary goal of naturalistic observation is to:

Descriptive methods include correlational studies, case studies,surveys, and naturalistic observation.

"Informed consent" in a psychology experiment means that the research participants understand the nature of the study andthat they are free to withdraw from the research at any time.

According to one of the pie charts in Chapter 1, the most common employment setting for psychologists is working forthe federal government.

Of the people pictured, who is credited with founding psychology as anexperimental science when he/she opened the first psychology research laboratoryin 1879?

A study investigating the effects of a naturally occurring eventon the research participants is known as:

All psychiatrists and clinical psychologists can prescribe medications and treat mental illness with a variety of medical procedures.