Exam 1: Introduction and Research Methods

If a clinical psychologist is doing therapy with someone who threatens to kill another person, the psychologist should_________________________.

An example of ______________ would be if you argue that most behaviors are a product of your environment and your friend argues that behaviors are a result of heredity.

Contrast the three types of brain scans-CT, PET, and MRI (or fMRI)-providing an example of when each scan might be used.

With which type of animal is nonhuman research mostly conducted?

_____ research is used to study the brain and other parts of the nervous system.

Data from many studies have been compiled, and researchers have developed a(n) __________ to explain their results.

In a naturalistic observation, a researcher would be most likely to do which of the following?

Suppose you wanted to determine whether the use of marijuana is related to car accidents. Discuss the major limitations and merits of using each of the following research methods: an experiment, a naturalistic observation, a survey, and a case study; then state which method you would ultimately use.

A survey is a(n) _____.

Which is the stronger correlation, -1.00 or +1.00?

If you are having specific areas of your brain stimulated to prepare for performing brain surgery, than you are MOST likely undergoing _____.

Structuralism made an important contribution to the science of psychology because it ________________.

The humanistic perspective was responsible for influencing the development of what area of psychology?

Imagine that you are a psychologist. Describe ethical considerations for human participants in research studies, as well as the benefits, limitations, and ethical considerations for animal research. Then, describe what you would tell a therapy client about what she can expect with regard to your maintaining her confidentiality. Finally, state the possible consequences of violating ethical standards in psychology.

If a presidential candidate concludes from a poll conducted in Minnesota that he is ahead in the race and that from those results that he will win the election nationwide, then the candidate is guilty of _____________.

Imagine that you are an editor of Psychological Science, a respected journal that reports scientific results in psychology. Describe how you consider statistics, publication, replication, and citations to be related to determining the legitimacy of research results.

Debriefing is _____.

Suppose you believe negative advertising causes people to vote against the political candidate attacked in the ad. Describe an experiment you could perform to test your theory. Be sure to include a hypothesis, operational definitions of your independent and dependent variables, who your participants would be, and how you would randomly assign them to experimental or control groups.

If a person has been injected with radioactive glucose and his doctor is observing the activity levels in various parts of his brain, than he is having a(n) _____.

A researcher who performs a previous study following the same procedures to see if he would get the same results would be an example of _____.