Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Modern psychology is said to have begun when:

A researcher,based on her review of relevant scientific studies,believes that there is a relationship between the frequency of a baby's crying and whether it was nursed at set intervals or on a demand schedule.If this belief were tested by experimentally manipulating feeding schedules,the feeding schedule would be called the:

Wundt is to structuralism as _______ is to psychoanalysis.

Scientific psychology is formally recognized to have begun:

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

Collecting objective data without interference in the subject's normal environment is associated with ________.

In an experiment,the group of subjects to which the experimental group is compared is called the:

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?

Skinner is associated with __________.

Professor McSpell designed an experiment to test her hypothesis that exercise will increase spelling ability.She divided children into three groups and had one group do 10 minutes of exercises,one group do 30 minutes of exercises,and the third group do no exercise.She then tested all three groups of children to see how many words they could spell correctly on a spelling test.In this experiment,the scores on the spelling test serve as the

A weakness of ________ is that subjects participating in the research often report,consciously and unconsciously,inaccurate information.

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

In psychological studies,randomization is used to ensure that:

The degree of relationship between two or more variables is __________.

A "fake treatment" is one way to define a ______.

Cognitive psychologists are concerned with the scientific study of __________.

By general agreement,psychology was born in __________.

Which one of the following psychologists was responsible for originating the behavioral school of psychology?

What early school of thought in psychology was noted for its emphasis on the unconscious determinants of behavior?

In an experiment concerning the effect of auditory feedback on accuracy in writing computer programs,one group hears a computer-simulated voice say each character or symbol that they type in as they are writing their programs.The second group does not receive the auditory feedback as they type their program lines.This second group is the ___________ group.