Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

The first step in any scientific investigation is _______________.

According to present research on psychologists,thirty-four percent are in the ________________ subfield of psychology.

Kerri wanted to study the effects of having the oldest child in a family go off to college.She decided to use her own family after her brother went off to a college in France.She took notes each day on her parents' behavior and kept a diary on her own reactions.Kerri was using the technique called ____________________.

What is random assignment?

Researchers must report their results completely whether the hypothesis was supported or not.Complete reporting is necessary for the purpose of ______________.

Which of the following situations best illustrates the placebo effect?

Which pair of scientists shared the most similar views of behavior?

Why was the perspective followed by Wilhelm Wundt and his followers called structuralism?

The general curiosity about why people think,feel,and behave the way they do

In preparation for his master's thesis,Tan spends some time in the local mall observing the behavior of shoppers.His notes reveal a tendency for people to smile when someone,even a stranger,smiles at them.Later in the semester,he designs a questionnaire that asks questions of participants concerning their typical reactions when someone smiles.He wonders if the face of a person who smiles has any influence on returned smiles,so he designs a study to answer this question.Which of the following lists in order,from first to last,the research methods Tan has used?

Which psychologist was the first African-American to receive a Ph.D.in educational psychology from the University of Chicago in 1925?

Which of the following questions could be answered best by using the survey method?

Cognitive neuroscientists can examine the brain with _____________ and _____________.

A correlation coefficient shows that alcohol consumption and driving accidents are indeed related.As a result,a researcher could predict _____________ if the direction of the relationship is known.

In 1879,in Leipzig,Germany,the first psychological laboratory was overseen by ______________.

Which of the following most accurately reflects the authors' views about the influence of philosophy and physiology on present day psychology?

Pick a goal of psychology and provide a clear example of how it works.

A psychologist evaluated Tameka,an eight-year-old child who has experienced difficulty in school.The psychologist sent questionnaires to 100 teachers to determine if they had ever seen similar cases.Based on the teachers' responses,the psychologist hypothesized that a particular diet might cause the learning problem.Following her tabulation of the responses,she designed a study that would tell her if diet were the actual cause.Which of the following lists,in order from first to last,the research methods this psychologist used?

The magazine Desperate Wives publishes a survey of its female readers called "The Sex Life of the American Wife." It reports that 87 percent of all wives like to make love in rubber boots.The critical flaw in this research would be ______________.

The work of Freud was built around __________________.