Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

The magazine Desperate Wives publishes a survey of its female readers called "The Sex Life of the American Wife." It reports that 87 percent of all wives like to make love in rubber boots. A more accurate title for this survey would be ________.

The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered that ________.

Collecting objective data without interference in the subject's normal environment is associated with:

Professor McSpell designed an experiment to test her hypothesis that exercise will increase spelling ability. She divided children into three groups and had one group do 10 minutes of exercises, one group do 30 minutes of exercises, and the third group do no exercise. She then tested all three groups of children to see how many words they could spell correctly on a spelling test. In this experiment, the scores on the spelling test serve as the

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?

Freud believed that many unconscious desires are:

While Margaret F. Washburn may have been the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in psychology in the United States (in 1894), the first African American woman to do so was ________ in 1934 at the University of Minnesota.

The school of thought that became known as behaviorism was founded by ________.

Sandy Sue was participating in an experiment in which she was given a pill that was supposed to cause her to get drowsy. Five minutes after taking the pill, Sandy Sue reported that she felt drowsy and wanted to lie down. The pill was actually made of sugar and had no ingredients to cause drowsiness. How do you explain Sandy Sue's drowsy feeling?

The belief that the unconscious mind has an influence on one's behavior is part of what early field of 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.

By general agreement, psychology was born in ________.

A good control group ________.

In addition to describing and explaining mental processes and behavior, psychology also attempts to ________ these phenomena.

________ 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.

Psychology is said to have begun when

A psychologist uses the correlational method to ________.

The word correlation is often used as a synonym for ________.

Which of the following questions could be answered best by using the survey method?

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