Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

The steps or procedures an experimenter must use to control or measure the variables in a study is called the ________________.

Describe a research method used in psychology.

The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered that ________________.

Humanist Abraham Maslow suggests that when people self-actualize they

You attend a lecture by a psychologist who uses terms such as free will and self-actualization.Which psychological perspective is most consistent with the points the psychologist presented?

In the early part of the past century,psychologists who broke down thought processes into their basic elements and analyzed them were called structuralists.What term might we use to describe psychologists with similar interests today?

College student-athletes who were exposed to "high threat" stereotypes before testing were more likely to perform better than those exposed after testing.

How does "diffusion of responsibility" contribute to the bystander effect?

"Children who watch violent cartoons will become more aggressive." According to the scientific method,this statement is most likely a ____________.

The word correlation is often used as a synonym for _____________.

The editors of Scientific American are able to obtain a representative sample of their readers in order to assess their attitudes toward preservation of the rain forests in Costa Rica.When interpreting the results of their survey,the editors will be able to ______________.

A person who has suffered a major stroke and is now experiencing severe personality problems because of the damage would BEST be advised to see a _____________.

As part of a psychology experiment,Brett decides to measure a person's "anxiety" by noting the number of blinks a person makes in a twenty minute social interaction with a stranger.Brett appears to have offered a(n)________ of anxiety.

Wesleyan University researchers Jamison and colleagues conducted a study to explore the negative stereotypes of collegiate athletes as "dumb jocks." In their study,the researchers found ________________.

Which research method involves watching behaviors as they occur without intervening or altering the behaviors in any way?

John Watson studied salivation in dogs in order to examine the concept of habituation.

Which of the following is an empirical question?

Darley and Latané (1968)studied a concept called the bystander effect.Provide a detailed real life example of this concept and explain how culture might be a factor.

If an individual believed that why people think and feel as they do is more important than what they think and how they think,that individual would be a proponent of the ________approach to psychology.

The question "How can it be changed?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?