Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

The class is playing a game of Jeopardy! and it is your turn. "I'll take Pioneers in Psychology for $100." The revealed answer is "Focused on unconscious factors." Just before the buzzer sounds, what will you say?

The magazine Desperate Wives publishes a survey of its female readers called "The Sex Life of the American Wife." It reports that 87 percent of all wives like to make love in rubber boots. A more accurate title for this survey would be __________.

The school of thought that became known as behaviorism was founded by __________.

Control groups should receive exactly the same treatment as the experimental groups when conducting a research study.

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

Which research method involves watching behaviors as they occur without intervening or altering the behaviors in any way?

Freud stressed the importance of __________.

A detailed description of a particular individual being studied or treated is called a __________.

A researcher finds that as her participants increased the number of hours they spent exercising, the overall weight of her participants decreased. This would be an example of a __________ correlation.

Modern psychology is said to have begun when __________.

Surveys are procedures used to measure and evaluate personality traits, emotional states, aptitudes, interests, abilities, and values.

Double-blind studies control for __________.

What is the biggest reason we use animals in research?

The experimenter effect can best be controlled by using __________.

If an individual believed that why people think and feel as they do is more important than what they think and how they think, that individual would be a proponent of the __________ approach to psychology.

A researcher stops people at the mall and asks them questions about their attitudes toward gun control. Which research technique is being used?

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

Objective introspection required __________.

Maricella has always been drawn to the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," and she decides to incorporate this saying into her research project. Maricella is trying to define absence in a way that can be empirically tested. She is attempting to find an appropriate __________.

In studying the bystander effect, a researcher is interested in looking at differences between prison guards in China and the United Kingdom. The researcher is taking a(n) __________ perspective in this cross-cultural study.