Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Which of the following statements concerning critical thinking is

A person who has suffered a major stroke and is now experiencing severe personality problems because of the damage would BEST be advised to see a ________.

Sandi believes that people who eat at McDonald's are overweight, so she decides to do a naturalistic observation of people who eat at McDonald's. What should most concern us about Sandi's observations?

Watson is to behaviorism as ________ is to psychoanalysis.

"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" is a statement associated with the perspective of ________.

Julie finds that the number of hours she sleeps each night is related to the scores she receives on quizzes the next day. As her sleep approaches 8 hours, her quiz scores improve; as her sleep drops to 5 hours, her quiz scores show a similar decline. Julie realizes that ________.

Experimenters can justify the use of deception because ________.

Structuralism emphasizes ________.

The first psychology laboratory was opened by ________.

Behaviorist J. B. Watson objected to early theories of psychology because of their focus on:

As part of a psychology experiment, Brett decides to measure a person's "anxiety" by noting the number of blinks a person makes in a twenty minute social interaction with a stranger. Brett appears to have offered a(n) ________ of anxiety.

In an experiment, four groups of college students used different memorizing strategies to learn the material in one chapter of a textbook. Then each group was given the same multiple-choice test on the material. What was the dependent variable in this study?

In the definition of psychology, the term mental processes refers to ________.

Which of the following is a common ethical guideline suggested by the American Psychological Association?

After reading about the possible causes of schizophrenia, a scientist thinks that a virus is the most likely cause. What term most accurately describes the scientist's idea?

Which of the following statements concerning critical thinking is incorrect?

The goals of psychology are to ________.

The work of Freud was built around ________.

A correlation coefficient is a numerical measure of the ________.

Direction and strength are important in understanding correlation coefficients.