Exam 1: Introduction to Psychology

Discuss the major ethical concerns in conducting psychological research with both animal and human subjects. What are the major ethical guidelines for conducting psychological research?

What is experimenter bias, and how is it controlled?

A researcher does not typically expect the control group to show the same levels of the dependent variable as the experimental group.

The major emphasis of structuralism was the

Laboratory observation is a form of naturalistic observation.

Which of the following is not an advantage of naturalistic observation?

Which of the following is an example of test reliability?

In-depth information about a single individual is the type of information gathered when psychologists use:

You are about to start a research project with the goal of understanding how one variable causes another variable; poverty causes HIV infection for example. A starting point would be to demonstrate that the two variables are related. You are only hypothesising that when poverty is high HIV infection rates are also high. You could start your project with a ________ study of these two variables.

A researcher conducting a study testing the effects of caffeine on attention is concerned about experimenter bias. The way for her to reduce this problem would be to

The numerical value indicating the degree and direction of the relationship between two variables is the correlation coefficient.

Which name is associated with psychoanalysis?

According to research reported in the text, gender bias in the sampling and selection of research subjects has decreased over the past few decades.

Those psychologists exploring the evolutionary perspective believe all of the following, except

When a study is conducted for the purpose of finding new knowledge or advancing scientific understanding, the research would be described as

The perspective that is defined as focusing upon how humans adapt to various environmental pressures is known as

The major figures associated with behaviourism are

Which of the following perspectives has the greatest interest in the influence of culture on human behaviour?

Professor Jenkins insists that we must know more than what precedes a response and what follows it in order to understand behaviour. She believes that we must try to understand the mental processes that underlie behaviour. She emphasizes the

Which of the following would a behaviourist consider an inappropriate subject for psychological study?