Exam 1: What Is Psychology

Which of the following is a valid hypothesis?

William James wanted to investigate the purpose of behavior and mental processes and established the __________ school of psychology.

Which of these is NOT one of the controlled ways that scientists utilize to observe others?

____________ is a process of explaining the purposes and methods of the research after a study has been completed.

If you were to conduct an experiment on the effects of temperature on aggressive behavior, temperature would be the __________ variable.

The school of psychology that emphasizes the purposes of mind and behavior and views consciousness as a continuous, not discrete, process is called

One explanation for the failure of a survey to predict events is that the survey participants do not __________ the general population.

The science that studies behavior and mental processes is __________.

According to __________ psychologists, perceptions are more than the sums of their parts.

The text makes an ethical critique of the Lang studies because the participants

The issues of ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status are the concerns of the __________ perspective.

Wilhelm Wundt founded the school of psychology called

Dr. Kendall is interested in the effects of teacher style (warm and supportive versus formal and objective) on the learning of mathematics by sixth graders. Most likely, Dr. Kendall is a(n) __________ psychologist.

Which of the following is likely to be reported as a positive correlation?

You decide to observe the behavior of children in day care. A few days before you are to start data collection you go the center and sit quietly to the side of the room. When the children speak to you, you respond as little as possible. You are

Lydia Corfield, a humanistic-existential psychotherapist, is most likely to make which of the following statements to her clients about their objectives for therapy?

The __________ method uses interviews and questionnaires to collect information from large numbers of people.

Blind and double-blind procedures are one way to control for the effects of __________ in experimental research.

When Lang demonstrated that belief that one has consumed alcohol influenced aggression, he demonstrated that controlling for __________ does influence the outcome of research.

A form of reasoning characterized by skepticism and thoughtful analysis of statements and arguments defines