Exam 1: Introduction and Research Methods

Shirley examines learning, conditioning, motivation, emotion, sensation, and perception in humans and other animals. It is likely that Shirley is a(n) psychologist.

Molly is a clinical psychologist doing therapy with a man who has reported his wife has been unfaithful. He tells Molly he is going to go home and kill his wife. What does Molly do in this case?

_____ research observes and records behaviors without manipulating variables or producing cause- and-effect explanations.

Natural selection, adaptation, and the evolution of behavior patterns are major emphases in the _____ perspective of psychology.

A process in that avoids an "either/or position" and focuses instead on multiple factors that mutually influence one another and the outcome is called _____.

The inability to generalize research results to other people or situations is directly affected by _____.

The term basic research is BEST defined as research that _____.

List, define and describe the four goals of psychology. Give an original example of how either basic or applied research could be used to achieve each goal.

A state of self-fulfillment in which we realize our highest potential, according to Abraham Maslow, is called _____.

A group of children gather around an elder to hear stories in one part of the world, whereas elsewhere children file into a classroom to learn about history from a teacher. Which psychological perspective would MOST emphasize these environmental factors as important in shaping behavior?

According to your text, when a scientist submits a study for publication to a journal where other scientists will read it and decide whether or not it will be published, the article is undergoing _______.

According to your text, behaviorists have been most successful in treating people with problems such as _____________.

If you prepared a study to determine ways to enhance athletic performance, you would be conducting _____ research.

A research student is assigned the task of watching and recording the interactions among members of a koala family on an Australian plantation. This research is known as _____.

What is one advantage of survey research that was mentioned in your text?

According to the humanistic perspective, human behavior is determined by ________ causes.

A placebo is defined in your text as _____.

Professor Matsos wants to determine if rewards will increase recycling efforts on campus. The dependent variable in this example is _____.

Timothy has been reluctant to ask or answer questions in the classroom because when he spoke in his second-grade class, his peers laughed at him. This is a demonstration of which goal of psychology?

According to your text, sample bias occurs when _____.