Exam 1: What Is Psychology

An advantage of survey research is that

If you conclude that the participants in a study are a representative sample, then you can __________ from the research sample to the larger population.

Structuralism defined experience in terms of

In his research on problem solving in chimpanzees, Kohler concluded that the chimp suddenly solved a problem and reached the banana because of

In selecting research participants, the results can be generalized if the sample represents the

Watson and Skinner had one objective in common, which was the

Cognitive psychologists would be least interested in

Gestalt psychologists believed that problem solving is not always accomplished by mechanical repetition but rather is accomplished by sudden ___________ in which a solution is found.

Being skeptical and examining the assumptions or premises of arguments are important aspects of __________ __________ skills.

Examples of a __________ would be the use of a "sugar pill" instead of real medication or tonic water instead of an alcoholic beverage. However, the individual must believe that he or she is experiencing the real thing.

When you use procedures like placebos and double-blind conditions, you are attempting to set up __________ for factors that would make your experimental findings questionable.

Which of the following statements distinguishes psychoanalysis from other schools of psychology?

Which of the following psychologists is most likely to conduct pure research?

An experiment in which the independent variable is noise level and the dependent variable is resistance to distraction, the goal is to observe whether distractibility is a(n) __________ noise.

A satisfactory psychological theory of thirst would

After the political debate, Nikki went to the town hall to find out which candidate's claims were best supported by the government documents on file there. Nikki can be described as

The statement that the mental state associated with being in love can be reduced to chemical changes in the brain is most likely to be made by a psychologist taking the __________ perspective.

__________ describe apparent relationships among observed events.

__________ psychologists are concerned with racism, sexism, and ageism.

Freud's technique of psychotherapy is called