Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

The greatest disadvantage of correlation is:

An operational definition is ________.

Which research method involves watching behaviors as they occur without intervening or altering the behaviors in any way?

The class is playing a game of Jeopardy! and it is your turn. "I'll take Specialties in Psychology for $300." The revealed answer is, "These psychological professionals work with situations in which environmental conditions may have an impact on mental health." Just before the buzzer sounds, what will you say?

Which correlation coefficient is most likely to describe the relationship between brushing one's teeth and the number of cavities one gets?

The general curiosity about why people think, feel, and behave the way they do:

A researcher wished to study the relationship between high school grades and college grades. Of the following research methods, which would be the most appropriate?

Which of the following statements about research with animals is incorrect?

A scientist, conducting a research study on sleep and learning, questions her own objectivity and decides to let a third person, not associated with conducting the experiment, score the tests. The scientist is probably trying to eliminate ________ bias.

Like Watson, Skinner believed that psychology should study only ________.

Steve, a college sophomore, is seeing a psychologist because of his intense fear of people. His counselor feels that Steve's fear is a product of unresolved conflicts about his parents, and his childhood experiences with them. Steve's therapist is most characteristic of which school of psychology?

Who was an early proponent of functionalism?

Marcy is trying to define anxiety in a way that can be empirically tested. She is attempting to find an appropriate ________.

Unintended changes in participants' behavior due to cues inadvertently given by the experimenter are called ________.

Which of the following assumptions associated with the psychoanalytic school produced the strongest negative reaction?

Psychologists use techniques based on ________.

How our minds help us adapt to the world around us was a primary question addressed by which early movement of psychology?

Adaris has always been drawn to the saying "Absence makes the heart grow fonder," and she decides to incorporate this saying into her research project. Adaris is trying to define absence in a way that can be empirically tested. She is attempting to find an appropriate ________.

A researcher is investigating the effects of exercise on weight. What are the independent and dependent variables in this experiment?

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, which could also influence one's ability to recall these events, age could be considered a(n) ________.