Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Which of the following is an example of observer bias?

In order to increase typing speed, Minisoft Inc. has redesigned its keyboard and provided a chime that is related to typing speed. The company wants to know if its innovations affect typing speed. What are the independent and dependent variables in this proposed study?

In psychological studies, randomization is used to ensure that __________.

As children grow older, their discretionary income usually increases. The best conclusion to draw about the variables age and income are that they are __________.

Colton identifies himself with the largest subfield of psychology. What kind of psychologist is he?

Which perspective focuses on free will and self-actualization?

The survey method of research is __________ in nature.

Which correlation coefficient is most likely to describe the relationship between brushing one's teeth and the number of cavities one gets?

Kerri believes that people who eat at McDonald's are overweight, so she decides to do a naturalistic observation of people eating at McDonald's. What should most concern us about Kerri's observations?

Professor Venneti gives a psychology exam on the origins of intelligence. She gives a short answer question based on the IQ scores of a parent-child pair. In order to answer the question correctly, her students need to remember that __________.

Which perspective would a researcher be taking if she were studying a client's early childhood experiences and his resulting development of self?

Direction and strength are important in understanding correlation coefficients.

Sam conducted a naturalistic observation as a project for a psychology class. He observed the interactions of parents and children at a football game. Many of the people he observed seemed to have noticed him. Sam forgot about the observer effect.

Which of the following is a strength of experiments?

Watson is to behaviorism as __________ is to psychoanalysis.

Which of the following perspectives focuses on the biological bases of universal mental characteristics?

The purpose of an experiment is to discover whether there is a relationship between the __________ and the __________.

__________ is an experiment in which participants do not know if they are in the experimental or the control group, but the experimenters do know which participants are part of which group.

Psychologists should only study observable behavior, according to __________.

Propose three methods typically used in psychology to test a topic, such as the effects of marijuana on GPA (grade point average).