Exam 1: Psychology As a Science: Thinking Like a Researcher

Dr. Temur holds an information session to prepare her students for an upcoming project. In previous semesters she has learned that when students base their project on the brief project outline and they do not ask questions, they experience _____, which can lead them to be generally underprepared and underperform overall.

Penny is a chronic cigarette smoker. Although she has heard of the research linking smoking to both lung cancer and emphysema she is not worried. Penny's belief that she will not fall ill due to smoking is an example of:

Frank is a die-hard Cleveland Browns football fan even though the team has not won an NFL championship since the 1960s. Every year Frank continues to believe that his home team has a chance to make it to the championship. Frank's devotion to the football team against the odds demonstrates:

Empirical research is a key to differentiating psychology from what other field of study?

_____ is a bias in which people only look for evidence that agrees with what they already believe to be true.

Enola can write statistical "syntax" for her thesis dataset as naturally as she can write a card to her grandmother. Enola's comfort with her dataset and related coding specifically demonstrates her:

_____ means to base claims on scientific data rather than on personal beliefs or opinions, even on topics which with one has extensive familiarity or experience.

A case that is the exception to the rule would be known as the:

How does pseudoscience differ from empirical research?

_____ is the term that describes an individual's tendency to accept an explanation simply because of a gut feeling it is right.

Virgil continues to attribute sounds and odd sensations in his house to the presence of ghosts although he knows that ghosts are not real. This is an example of:

Research methods and statistics courses focus on building skills in:

Applied research:

Which of the following would be a creative approach to measuring the actual act of aggression?

Ambrose completed an experiment for his neuropsychology graduate seminar in which he used an EEG machine to monitor the brain activity of the amygdala and frontal cortex as men and women viewed images of landscapes and people. He published his findings showing greater activity in the amygdala for females than males when viewing landscapes. A year later Ambrose saw that another research published a very similar study in an effort to confirm or disprove his Ambrose's study findings. This is an example of:

(Scenario II) This study is best described as:

People often overestimate the likelihood of death by shark attack, plane crash, and violence, because news programs emphasize these extreme occurrences to drive up viewer ratings. An individual's tendency to readily recall such instances even though they are objectively rare is the result of the:

Which of the following is NOT an example of the better-than-average effect?

When Amir ran for class president, it never occurred to him that he could lose. This tendency is known as:

Which of the following classes utilizes the scientific method the most to answer questions?