Exam 1: Introduction to Psychology

Design a quick, basic experiment to study the effects of noise level on test taking. Identify the following: hypothesis, independent variable, dependent variable, experimental group, and control group.

Woloshyn, Willoughby, Wood and Pressley's research on study strategies found that students recalled more information when they used

An inert substance, such as a sugar pill, is given to the control group in an experiment as a control for the placebo effect.

Which current perspective places the most emphasis on unconscious processes?

What are some areas of specialization in psychology, and in what settings are they employed?

What was the primary technique that the structuralists used to study consciousness?

The Canadian Psychological Association has guidelines for ethical treatment of human subjects but not for animal subjects.

Unobtrusively observing people who are eating at a fast food restaurant in order to determine how frequently they take bites is an example of

Who knows which subjects are in the experimental and control groups when the double-blind technique is used?

Differentiate between basic research and applied research. If you were a director in a provincial research funding program, would you fund more basic research or more applied research? Why?

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

When the new drug was tested, both the researcher and the patients knew who was getting the new drug and who was getting a sugar pill that looked like the drug. If possible, this researcher should have used

Martin rejects the idea that people lack a free will but believes that people are capable of making rational, conscious choices and determining what they will become. Martin strongly endorses the

The major emphasis of behaviourism is

Most subfields of psychology fall under the broader category of

Which of the following methods has the advantage of allowing the investigator to collect large amounts of information about the attitudes, beliefs, experiences or behaviours of large groups of people?

A correlation coefficient of -.97 suggests a very weak relationship between the two variables under study.

According to the Canadian Code of Ethics for Psychologist it is acceptable to deceive human subjects in an experiment if certain conditions are met. Which of the following is not one of those conditions?

The textbook defines psychology as the field that focuses on behaviour.

When a researcher utilizes a general principle or set of principles to explain how a number of separate facts are related to one another, the researcher is using