Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

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

Cognitive psychologists are concerned with the scientific study of __________.

To obtain objective information,researchers sometimes must deceive their subjects.Ethically,research involving deception must always _________.

Keeping responses anonymous helps researchers avoid the ethical problem of _______.

Mr.Marshall hired June to collect data from a group of subjects.Neither June nor the subjects were aware of the independent variable that Mr.Marshall had manipulated.This is an example of _______.

Political polls taken before major elections are examples of __________ research.

Studying the elements of sensations,feelings,and images is most directly associated with which school of psychology?

Why is it essential that the experimental and control groups be treated identically in every respect but one?

Modern psychology is said to have begun when:

Which of the following is a strength of experiments?

A psychologist uses the correlational method to _________.

Wundt is to structuralism as _______ is to psychoanalysis.

Cause-and-effect conclusions can be drawn from the results of an experiment because:

Watson is to behaviorism as _______ is to psychoanalysis.

After more than a year in Iranian prisons,52 American hostages were released by Iran's revolutionary government and allowed to return to the United States.Of the following professionals,___________ psychologists would probably have LEAST professional interest in that event.

The purpose of a control group in an experiment is to:

In an experiment,a researcher manipulates one variable to see how it affects a second variable.The manipulated variable is called the __________.

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 __________.

As children grow older,their discretionary income usually increases.The best conclusion to draw about the variables age and income are that they are:

The founder of behaviorism is: