Exam 1: Introducing Psychology

In a drug study if your participants are blind as to the hypothesis under investigation and whether they received the real drug or the placebo, then the participants

Rare conditions, such as cases involving brain tumors, accidental brain injuries, childhood "geniuses," or "rampage" school shootings, are often studied using which method?

Which of the following is NOT one of the basic ethical guidelines for psychological researchers?

A positive correlation means that as one variable increases, the other variable

You see a friend of yours at a store, and her eyes are red and full of tears. You immediately go over to comfort her, assuming she has had another fight with her boyfriend. As you get to her, you ask what that "awful guy has done to her now." Your friend acts surprised that you would criticize the "love of her life." When you ask why she is crying, she tells you that her allergies are really acting up, and she is at the store to buy some allergy medicine. Your error with your friend occurred because you

The town of Indianola, Mississippi wants to know what the community thinks about building a high-tech movie theatre. Increased taxes will be used to pay for the new theatre. Therefore, elected officials are mailing out questionnaires to determine public opinion about the theatre and the use of increased taxes to pay for it. Which type of research method are they using?

A person suffering from anxiety predicts that he will make a fool of himself at a social gathering and, in fact, he does. A psychologist predicts that students in his morning class will outperform those in his afternoon class and, in fact, they do. The anxious person and the psychologist both

Those who label themselves as "applied researchers" do all of the following EXCEPT

Regarding general test-taking skills, it is recommended that students answer the difficult questions first and then the easy ones.

Describe critical thinking and the five principles which form the foundation of it.

Both the hereditary as well as environmental influences on the development of schizophrenia in the Genain quadruplets were documented using which research method?

When a person takes a placebo for pain, the effect is imaginary, since there is no actual reduction in brain activity linked with pain.

Which of the following coefficients of correlation indicates the WEAKEST relationship between two sets of variables?

On a talk show, a person claims to have taught 50 people how to walk barefoot on hot coals using a technique called "neurolinguistic programming," when, in reality, anyone with reasonably callused feet can do this. A critical thinker should have realized that this technique was never tested in a true experiment with a(n) __________ group.

In the definition of psychology, a ny directly observable action or response, such as eating, sleeping, talking, or sneezing, is referred to as a(n) __________ behavior.

Psychology became a science in 1879 when psychologists began to

In an experiment to study the effects of study skills training on academic achievement, the motivation and intelligence of the students in the study would be considered dependent variables.

Research reports begin with a brief summary of the study and its findings called the __________.

In which type of study are two factors measured and then a statistical technique used to find the degree of relationship between the two factors?

Responding to a substance, such as a sugar pill or a saline injection, as if it were the real drug is referred to as