Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

"There is no life outside this solar system and nothing you can say will change that fact!" Which criterion of critical thinking does this person lack?

Who claimed that behavior is affected by reinforcement?

B. F. Skinner is most closely associated with which school of psychology?

The school of behaviorism attempted to explain behavior by studying __________.

Early in psychology's history, research participants might have been asked to view a chair and describe its color, shape, and texture and other aspects of their conscious experience. These individuals would have been using a method called __________.

Mr. McCarthy hired Anya to collect data from a group of subjects. Neither Anya nor the subjects were aware of the independent variable that Mr. McCarthy had manipulated. This is an example of __________.

__________ was an early proponent of functionalism.

What is operationalization?

How are psychologists and psychiatrists alike? How are they different?

Titchener was a member of the __________ school of thought.

One of the main reasons for using a laboratory for psychological research is to __________.

In a controlled experiment, the group not subjected to a change in the independent variable, and used for comparison with the group receiving the experimental change, is the __________ group.

The goals of psychology are to __________.

A(n) __________ is a measure of how strongly two variables are related to one another.

A negative correlation means that high values of one variable are associated with low values of the other.

A psychologist is interested in finding out why married couples seemingly begin to look like each other after several years of marriage. This psychologist is most interested in the goal of __________.

The question "Why is it happening?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?

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. The critical flaw in this research would be the fact that __________.

In a laboratory, smokers are asked to "drive" using a computerized driving simulator equipped with a stick shift and a gas pedal. The object is to maximize the distance covered by driving as fast as possible on a winding road while avoiding rear-end collisions. Some of the participants smoke a real cigarette immediately before climbing into the driver's seat. Others smoke a fake cigarette without nicotine. You are interested in comparing how many collisions the two groups have. In this study, the independent variable is the __________.

Wundt is to structuralism as __________ is to psychoanalysis.