Exam 1: C: The Science of Psychology

A psychologist bases his/her theories completely on measuring observable behaviors.This psychologist is probably a __________.

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

Almost all research done in psychology is analyzed _______.

Wertheimer was associated with the _____________ school.

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

Psychologists stopped relying on the method of analytic introspection as their primary research tool because:

Structuralism emphasizes __________.

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.In this study,the group that was NOT frightened would be called the ____________ group.

A group of students was asked to write an essay in support of the legalization of marijuana.They were paid $.50.Another group of students received $2.00 for the same task.It was subsequently found that those students who received only $.50 developed a more positive attitude towards the legalization of marijuana.The experiment in this study was using (the)__________.

The method of psychological research which utilizes a control group,a dependent variable,and an independent variable is

B.F.Skinner is associated with __________.

A group of psychologists study how adults change and grow,both psychologically and physiologically,as they age.These psychologists are most like ___________.

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

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

The greatest disadvantage of correlation is:

John Watson was the founder of the school of thought that became known as __________.

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

By general agreement,psychology was born in __________.

A correlation tells us:

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