Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

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

B.F.Skinner is most closely associated with which school of psychology?

Observing behavior as it happens in real-life natural settings without imposing laboratory controls is known as the __________.

When you watch dogs play in the park or watch how your professors conduct their classes,you are engaging in a form of __________.

As part of an assignment,Ricks' class was asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire on female sexual harassment.Which research method was Bill's professor using?

By general agreement,psychology was born in __________.

One of the main reasons for using a laboratory for psychological research is to:

Each day in class,Dr.Helms explains to his students that they are wonderful whether they are academic successes or failures.He also points out that each individual consciously chooses to attend class and study and that these choices dramatically affect whether one is academically successful.Dr.Helms is most likely a _______ psychologist.

Cognitive psychologists are a subgroup of experimental psychologists who are concerned primarily with:

Almost all research done in psychology is analyzed ________.

For Freud,much of our behavior is controlled by __________.

Freud's theories differed radically from the views of his predecessors because of __________.

Which school of psychology assumes that human activity cannot be broken down into separate units for analysis but must be evaluated as wholes?

Manipulating an independent variable in a real-life setting is ________.

Titchener was a member of the ___________school of thought.

In an experiment,a researcher manipulates one variable to see how it affects a second variable.The second variable,which is observed for any possible effects,is called the __________.

The purpose of an experiment is to discover whether there is a relationship between the ___________ and the ___________.

A psychologist wanted to see if people are more prone to seek the company of others when anxious than when calm.He randomly assigned half of his subjects to an anxiety group and then told them that,as part of the study,they would receive electric shocks.He did not frighten the other group of subjects.Finally,he recorded how many subjects in each group chose to be "tested" in a group setting and how many chose to be "tested" alone.What was the independent variable in this study?

Wertheimer was associated with __________ psychology.

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