Exam 1: Section 2: Introduction and Research Methods

Who was the first woman to be elected president of the American Psychological Association?

Behaviorists viewed human behavior as being shaped and maintained by _____, Rogers emphasized _____.

Which of the following was the first school of thought or approach in psychology?

The first African American to receive a Ph.D. in psychology in the United States was:

Theresa is interested in a relatively new area of psychology that focuses on the conditions and processes that contribute to optimal functioning of people, groups, and institutions. She believes that psychology should be concerned with topics such as personal happiness, optimism, creativity, wisdom, and the social institutions that foster these qualities in individuals and communities. Her views are MOST consistent with the _____ perspective in psychology.

Which early school of psychology relied on a method called introspection?

Your therapist is very interested in your dreams, memory blocks, and slips of the tongue. On which approach to psychology is your therapist probably basing his psychotherapy?

Physiology is:

Researchers interested in how sleep deprivation affected performance randomly assigned participants to groups that had one, two, or three nights of sleep deprivation. Then they tested their reaction times on a standard motor reaction task. The dependent variable in this experiment was:

A hypothesis is a(n):

As a psychology researcher, you have found that the public expression of emotions differs among people in the United States, Japan, Switzerland, and Israel. This type of research fits BEST with which perspective in psychology?

Humanistic psychology was called the "third force" because it:

McNair has been studying the effects of different levels of estrogen on mating behaviors in male and female hamsters. Dr. McNair is MOST likely a _____ psychologist.

Ethnocentrism refers to the tendency to:

Which of the following approaches was referred to as the "third force" in American psychology?

The research method that is used to demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship between changes in one variable and the effects on another variable is called _____ research.

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

Which of the following phrases would be an acceptable operational definition for anxiety?

Which of the following is a definition of experimental research?

After conducting a statistical analysis of responses to a survey, Professor Patterson finds a correlation of +2.36 between participation in sporting events and physical injuries. This finding indicates that: