Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

 What school of psychology arose in the United States in the 1920s and is associated with the idea that,in order to be a true science,psychology had to move away from the study of the mind? 

 Human factors psychologists are primarily interested in ____. 

 Jermaine is a psychologist who works at a major urban hospital to develop stress management plans for people who have recently had open-heart surgery.Jermaine is most likely a ____ psychologist. 

 Which organization establishes the ethical guidelines for research conducted by psychologists? 

 Psychology is traditionally believed to have begun as a separate field of study in ____. 

 Because researchers do not control the main variables in a correlational study,____. 

 Which statement is TRUE regarding the independent variable in an experiment? 

 Wundt attempted to detail the ____. 

 The scientific method is used by ____. 

 Cross-cultural psychologists primarily study the ____. 

 Describe a real example of each of the following: a negative correlation,a positive correlation,and a zero correlation.

 Dr.Masood is conducting an experiment in which she is testing the effect of video game playing on the ability to think creatively.One group of children plays video games two hours a day for a week,another group of similar children plays video games for a total of two hours in a week,and a third group of children do not play video games at all.All three groups of children then take a test measuring their creativity.The hypothesis that Dr.Masood is testing is best described as a ____ hypothesis. 

 Dr.Ford wants to test the hypothesis that room color can affect memory.To that end,he randomly assigns 10 students to a condition where they study a written passage while seated in a room that is painted a lilac color.The other 10 students study the passage while seated in an identical room that is painted bright orange.After both groups studied the passage for one hour,they are given a multiple-choice test over the material.Dr.Ford then calculates how many questions the students in both groups answer correctly.Dr.Ford's study is an example of a(n)____. 

 Psychologists attempt to understand behavior and mental processes by ____. 

 Dr.Ford wants to test the hypothesis that room color can affect memory.To that end,he randomly assigns 10 students to a condition where they study a written passage while seated in a room that is painted a lilac color.The other 10 students study the passage while seated in an identical room that is painted bright orange.After both groups studied the passage for one hour,they are given a multiple-choice test over the material.Dr.Ford then calculates how many questions the students answer correctly.He finds that students in the lilac-room condition score much better than the students in the orange-room condition.Based on this study,what can Dr.Ford conclude? 

 Of the following,who is a leader in the field of positive psychology? 

 Edward Titchener is most associated with ____. 

 What psychological perspective refers to the assumptions about behavior originally conceived by Freud,as modified by his followers? 

 Researchers use random sampling to obtain a(n)____. 

 To make sure that groups of participants in an experiment are not generally different from each other before the experiment begins,the experimenter ____.