Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Independent variable is to dependent variable as ________.

If a functionalist from the 1870s were alive today, where would we most likely find him?

The founder of behaviorism is

In the 1970s, a 13-year-old girl was found locked up in a room, strapped to a potty chair. Since she had grown up in a world without human speech, researchers studied "Genie's" ability to acquire words, grammar, and pronunciation. This type of research is called a ________.

An experiment was run in which group A was given 3 minutes to study a word list, while group B was given 10 minutes to study the same list. Later, both groups were asked to recall words from the list. In this study, the number of words recalled is the ________.

Mei was sent to the school psychologist to be tested. Based on her IQ scores, it was decided that she would do well in the gifted child program. This is an example of which goal of psychology?

Humanist Abraham Maslow suggested that when people reach self-actualization, they:

Random assignment is when each participant is assigned alphabetically to each condition.

Cognitive neuroscience includes the use of tools such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET).

A subset of cases selected from a larger population is a ________.

A young man reads in a letter that he has just won $1,000 in a state-wide lottery and he literally jumps for joy. Which neurons are sending messages from his brain to his legs ordering them to jump?

John B. Watson believed that psychology should involve the study of ________.

In an experiment concerning the effect of auditory feedback on accuracy in writing computer programs, one group hears a computer-simulated voice say each character or symbol that they type in as they are writing their programs. The second group does not receive the auditory feedback as they type their program lines. This second group is the ________ group.

Two groups of graduate students were given rats and were told to teach them how to run mazes. Group 1 was told that they had "very smart" rats that should learn quickly. Group 2 was told that they had "very stupid" rats that should learn slowly. In actuality, neither group was any different, and the rats were randomly assigned. In spite of that, when the experiment concluded, Group 1 rats had learned the maze much more quickly. How can that be explained?

Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the strongest relationship between two variables?

Cognitive neuroscientists can examine the brain with ________.

The first step in the scientific method is developing a method.

Which of the following is a strength of experiments?

Sigmund Freud was the father of psychology.

A psychologist is interested in finding out why identical twins have different personalities. This psychologist is most interested in the goal of ________.