Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

 The first American woman to earn a doctorate in psychology was ____. 

 A personality psychologist might have helped out in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina by ____. 

 The effect of confounding variables is greatly reduced through ____. 

 Which perspective emphasizes human strengths and how humans attain happiness? 

 Two well-known humanists are ____. 

 Describe the steps involved in the scientific method.

 Which statement would most likely have been made by William James? 

 Hypotheses can fall into one of two categories: ____. 

 The evolutionary perspective in psychology is most closely associated with the ____. 

 Psychologists usually attempt to determine whether or not data supports a hypothesis through the use of ____. 

 If you have to do a research project for your psychology class and you use your roommates and family members as participants,you are using a ____. 

 Suppose you were interested in studying how the color of a room might affect student performance on exams.Describe the experiment you would design to investigate this,and be sure to indicate what the independent and dependent variables are in the study you chose,and how you might deal with the problem of confounding variables.

 As opposed to educational psychologists,school psychologists are more likely to ____. 

 In ____,neither experimenters nor participants know whether the participant is in the experimental or control group. 

 Which area of study is one of the American Psychological Association's foundational areas of contemporary psychology? 

 Who was the first African American woman to be awarded a doctorate in psychology? 

 When conducting their research,psychologists attempt to obtain a ____ that is representative of their ____. 

 Bea is a researcher working in the area of human sexuality.She conducts a survey to determine how often the average person has sex.In doing this survey,Bea does not have her participants put their name on the survey.Rather,she assigns each participant a number.In doing this,Bea is upholding the ethical rule which states that participants have a right to ____. 

 Confounding variables ____. 

 A scientific theory ____.