Exam 1: C: The Science of Psychology

Experimenter bias can best be controlled using ________.

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

If explanation of the causes of thoughts,feelings,and behavior is a psychologist's goal,then the __________ method of research should be used.

Which of the following does NOT fit with the other three?

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

A large group of people whom you want to know about is called a __________.

Psychologists use research techniques based on __________.

A researcher tests the hypothesis that students who study in the room where they take their tests will perform better on the tests than students who study in other rooms.She requires one group to study in the classroom where the exam is given and another group to study in the library.All students take the test in the classroom,and their test performance is compared.In this example,where students study is the:

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:

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?

Which of the following is the correct order which psychologists use in studying a particular behavior?

The process of establishing causal relationships is associated most with:

Psychology:

Wundt is to structuralism as _______ is to psychoanalysis.

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?

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

The psychologist John Watson is associated with the _______ school of psychology and argued that psychology must concern itself only with ________.

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 __________.

Modern psychology is said to have begun when:

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