Exam 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology: History and Research Methods

Sally proposes the idea that one's sexual history prior to marriage may be linked to whether one ends up getting divorced. This best represents which step of the scientific method?

A case study examines in detail ________.

An Institutional Review Board (IRB) looks out for the welfare of those serving as participants in research.

________ bias occurs when participants or items are not chosen at random but instead are selected so that an attribute is over- or under-represented.

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

The administration of Midwest State University wants to know if arrangement of chairs affects student participation in classrooms. What would be a good operational definition of the dependent variable in an experiment designed to measure this relationship?

As part of a psychology experiment, Brett decides to measure a person's "anxiety" by noting the number of blinks a person makes in a twenty minute social interaction with a stranger. Brett appears to have offered a(n) ________ of anxiety.

In the phrase "survival of the fittest," the fittest are those who are the strongest.

The outwardly observable acts of an individual, alone or in a group, are referred to as ________.

Introspection requires ________.

You overhear psychology students preparing for a test. They note that one of the research methods often "fails to generalize." Which method is the most likely topic of their discussion?

Why is it important to make sure that different participant groups are roughly equivalent in terms of personal characteristics (e.g., age, gender) before any independent variable is introduced?

Which of the following professionals might have a master's degree but not a doctoral degree?

Dr. Braunz has been treating a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. She decides to write a prescription for Ritalin. Given this information, it is most likely that Dr. Braunz is a _________________.

Julie finds that the number of hours she sleeps each night is related to the scores she receives on quizzes the next day. As her sleep approaches 8 hours, her quiz scores improve; as her sleep drops to 5 hours, her quiz scores show a similar decline. Julie realizes that ______________________.

Which of the following is CORRECT concerning random assignment?

An applied psychologist may hold either a Ph.D. or a master's degree.

If Eve provides psychotherapy and is trained to administer and interpret psychological tests, then what type of psychologist is she? What other job tasks might this type of psychologist have?

Evolutionary psychologists propose that people lie because ________.

The goal of cognitive neuroscience is to ________.