Exam 1: An Introduction to Psychology

The saying "mind over matter" reflects a philosophical view called _____, which is associated with _____.

When Jolene prepares a bar graph, she is probably displaying inferential statistics.

Morgana is writing a scientific article in psychology. She is summarizing the scientific literature relevant to her hypothesis. Morgana is writing the article's:

"He wanted to do for psychology what the Periodic Table of the Elements did for chemistry," lectures a psychology professor. To whom is the professor MOST likely referring?

The strength of a correlation is indicated by the sign of the coefficient.

Women made important contributions early in psychology's history.

Think of some of the graphs you have seen in your text and elsewhere. Usually, the _____ variable appears on the _____-axis.

Experimental research requires the examination of the responses of _____ group(s).

Based on the textbook's discussion of positive psychology, scores on a measure of optimism should be _____ correlated with scores on measures of mental health.

Random selection is the same thing as random assignment.

The evolutionary perspective's emphasis on adaptation recalls the focus of the school of structuralism.

In an experiment, the dependent variable is:

Edward Titchener developed the school of psychology known as functionalism.

The textbook describes the plight of 33 trapped Chilean miners. Which aspect(s) of this situation would most interest a psychologist, and why?

Frederico is making revisions to an article that has been preliminarily accepted by the Journal of Applied Cognition. Frederico in engaged in the _____ step of the scientific method, namely _____.

When a memory researcher measures recognition accuracy in two groups, recognition accuracy is a dependent variable.

In a journal article in psychology, the specific hypothesis tested in the research usually appears in the:

In the context of psychology's goals, observe is to describe as understand is to:

Study time is the dependent variable in an experiment examining the effect of the length of time that a list is studied on list memory.

Describe the processes of peer review and replication. Explain how these processes contribute to the progress of psychological science.