Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Drinking orange juice is negatively correlated with the risk of cancer.Based on this information,which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following is NOT a strength of the experiment as a research method?

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?

In a controlled experiment,the group subjected to a change in the independent variable is called the __________ grou

Which of the following professionals in psychology has the broadest area of interests and functions?

Paul records data that indicate that the number of hot chocolates sold at the concession stand increases as temperature outside decreases (for example,more hot chocolates are purchased during late fall than late spring).Which of the following statements is the most accurate depiction of this finding?

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

A correlation coefficient shows that alcohol consumption and driving accidents are indeed related.As a result,a researcher could predict ____________ if the direction of the relationship is known.

Darley and Latané (1968)believed that the presence of other people in a distressing situation decreased the likelihood that they would receive help due to ____________.

The psychological school that asks,"What are mental processes for?" rather than "What are mental processes?" is which of the following?

The CEO of a large automobile company says the cars the company makes are safe regardless of the fact that they lead the country in accidents due to faulty equipment.This discrepancy highlights which of the following critical thinking principles?

A psychologist wanted to see if people are more prone to seek the company of others when anxious than when calm.He randomly assigned half of his subjects to an anxiety group and then told them that,as part of the study,they would receive electric shocks.He did not frighten the other group of subjects.Finally,he recorded how many subjects in each group chose to be "tested" in a group setting and how many chose to be "tested" alone.What was the independent variable in this study?

Freud stressed the importance of _____________ on the formation of personality.

Ken is planning on studying the influence of intelligence on the ability to recall events from the 1960s.If Ken does not account for variables such as age that could also influence one's ability to recall these events,age could be considered a(n)__________________.

In a controlled experiment,the group not subjected to a change in the independent variable,and used for comparison with the group receiving the experimental change,is the __________ grou

Using both independent and dependent variables is associated with which of the following types of research used in psychology?

In order to increase typing speed,Minisoft has redesigned its keyboard and provided a chime that is related to typing speed.The company wants to know if its innovations affect typing speed.Identify the independent and dependent variables in this proposed study.

The question "When will it happen again?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?

Wundt is to structuralism as _______ is to psychoanalysis.

The laboratory experiment always involves watching behaviors as they occur without intervening or altering the behaviors in any way.