Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Dr.Leland can prescribe drugs in some situations and works with depressed women.He must be a psychologist.

The main disadvantage of a case study is that it is not:

Which of the following is a common ethical guideline suggested by the Canadian Psychological Association?

A/an _____________________ is a measure of how strongly two variables are related to each other.

The early perspective called Gestalt psychology has evolved into the current perspective called:

Dr.Mosher is a psychologist who tries to understand how people select their mates.Her interests fit with the ________________ model.

______________________ is an experiment in which neither the participants nor the individuals running the experiment know if participants are in the experimental or the control group until after the results are tallied.

Wilhelm Wundt used the method of introspection.

It's pretty common knowledge that the more you study,the higher your grade will be.What kind of correlation is this relationship?

The term ___________________________ refers to a mental health professional who generally has at least an MSW and who typically treats individual dysfunction and family problems but may also deal with other problems such as addiction or abuse.

A teacher tells the school psychologist that Kate is often late for class,does not turn in her homework,squirms around a lot in her seat,and swings her feet constantly.This is an example of which goal of psychology?

The term ___________________________ refers to a mental health professional who generally has at least an MSW and who typically treats individual dysfunction and family problems but may also deal with other problems such as addiction or abuse.

Which of the following statements concerning using animals in research is correct?

The question "What is happening?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?

Who was an early proponent of functionalism?

Which type of early psychologist believed that "the whole is more than the sum of its parts"?

When American _______________ was hired by the University of Toronto in 1889 to set up a psychological lab,his appointment set off a flurry of protest and petition signing because they viewed him as an "outsider."

All the following variables,EXCEPT for ____________________,show a negative correlation.

In that same experiment,the control group is the one that gets:

As a project for a psychology course,a student correlated weight and intelligence scores for 250 students.The computed correlation coefficient was 0.00.What did the scatter plot look like?