Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Which of the following statements about critical thinking is false?

A _____ is the entire group about which the investigator wants to draw conclusions,whereas a _____ is the subset of the population selected to participate in the study.

The empirical method best fulfills which of the following goals of science?

According to _____ psychologists,your brain houses a "mind" whose mental processes allow you to remember,make decisions,plan,set goals,and be creative.

_____ refers to the soundness of the conclusions that a researcher draws from an experiment.

Choosing a group of 50 students from a roster of all students in a nearby school and inviting them to participate in a study would be an example of one way to _____.

In an experiment,the _____ is conceptualized as the "potential cause" and the _____ is conceptualized as the "effect."

Which of the following statements is false?

Aspects of a study that communicate to the participants how the experimenter wants them to behave are known as _____.

The _____ approach to psychology views the mind as an active and aware problem-solving system.This view contrasts with the _____ approach to psychology,which focuses on an organism's visible interactions with the environment.

Which of the following theorists used the structuralism approach to studying human behavior?

_____ believed that psychology should be about what people do,and should not concern itself with what cannot be seen (e.g.,internal states such as thoughts,feelings,and goals).

Longitudinal research involves _____.

_____ involves using introspection to investigate the components of the mind,whereas _____ probed the functions and purposes of the mind and behavior in the individual's adaptation to the environment.

After the study has been completed,the researchers should inform the participants of its purpose and the methods they used.This is in accordance to the principle of _____.

According to the text,if an Institutional Review Board were to consider reality TV from the perspective of the APA ethical guidelines,which of the following issues would be of greatest concern?

In an experiment,the group that is NOT subjected to a treatment condition is known as the _____ group.

Professor Jordan has suggested to his students that as study time increases,grades increase.The professor is describing a _____.

_____ refers to the degree to which an experimental design actually reflects the real-world issues it is supposed to address.

In a _____,neither the experimenter nor the participants are aware of which participants are in the experimental group and which are in the control group until the results are calculated.