Exam 1: Section 2: The Science of Psychology

Experiments involve the manipulation of _____ and the measurement of _____.

The measure of variability MOST likely to be affected by extreme scores is the _____.

A _____ study is a research method used to determine how well one variable predicts another variable.

The goal of participant observation is _____, and the goal of a correlational study is _____.

The _____ is the score positioned in the middle of a distribution when all the scores are listed from the lowest to the highest.

The sociocultural perspective in psychology focuses on how _____.

In classical conditioning, new behaviors are learned as a result of the _____.

Hindsight bias is sometimes called the _____.

Which illustrates the use of control in experimentation?

An operational definition would be used to _____.

A frequency distribution with a mean of 50, a median of 60, and a mode of 80 would be considered a _____.

Average family size in the United States is to _____ as average income in the United States is to _____.

Which data collection technique would be the MOST effective way of investigating the relationship between political preferences and the economic status of North Americans?

When each individual in the population has an equal opportunity of being in the sample, _____ sampling is being used.

A placebo effect can arise from _____.

Suppose you have a normal distribution of test scores with a mean of 70 and a standard deviation of 10. What is the approximate percentile rank of a score of 80?

According to the bystander effect, in which situation is Tony MOST likely to receive help?

A psychologist with a biological perspective is interested in studying how human behavior is influenced by _____.

Scores between 75 and 25 were reported for a given data set of 30 scores. In this instance, the range would be calculated by _____.

The difference between naturalistic observation and participant observation is that _____.