Exam 1: Introduction and Research Methods

What type of research would study ways to enhance athletic performance?

Pavlov's concept of ______________ explained behavior as a result of observable stimuli and observable responses.

According to the rules of informed consent, when you ask the researcher if you have to complete/finish the experiment in which you are participating, the researcher should respond with _____.

Since there is a correlation between cancer and stress, which of the following statements is true?

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

_____ are factors that are not being directly manipulated or measured, which could affect research results if they are not held constant.

Provide an example of a positive correlation, negative correlation, and zero correlation.

Which of the following is the BEST example of psychology's goal of changing behavior?

If a psychologist is interested in studying the risk factors that lead to delinquency in adolescence, on what goal of psychology is the researcher focused?

Which of the following is the BEST example of psychology's goal of describing behavior?

Which of the following therapists is violating psychology's ethical standard of confidentiality?

If researchers gave participants varying amounts of a new "memory" drug and then gave them a story to read and measured their scores on a quiz, the _____ would be the independent variable (IV), and the _____ would be the dependent variable (DV).

In 1848 Phineas Gage had a metal rod accidentally shot through part of his face and brain. As a result, he suffered a drastic personality transformation, with his injury and recovery documented by his physician. This is an example of a(n)_____________.

Research has shown that watching episodes of aggression on television causes children to become physically more aggressive. As a result, the V-chip was created. What goal of psychology does this best represent?

An example of ________ would be destroying the amygdala in a research rat in order to observe changes in its behavior.

Dr. Krostom responds to radio listeners by using mostly her own common sense, beliefs, and values rather than scientific research. This practice is more like _____ than _____.

Which of the following is true about animal research?

What organisms do psychologists study?

An example of a(n) ___________ is one in which an experiment was conducted on caffeine-induced stress in which neither the class researchers nor the participants in the experiment knew who did and did not receive caffeine until after the study was completed.

A scientist watching jackals feed on seals measures the frequency of feeding, competitive behavior, and duration of feeding. He is gathering _____.