Exam 1: Introduction and Research Methods

Nonhuman animal participants are used in the vast majority of psychological studies conducted each year in this country.

In the gingko biloba experiment, the participants in both the experimental group and the placebo control group improved on the cognitive tests because of a practice effect.

Even though correlational research cannot be used to establish a cause-and-effect relationship, correlational research can be used to make meaningful predictions.

Of the following correlation coefficients, which represents the weakest relationship between two factors?

Crum and Langer reported that none of the participants benefited from perceiving housekeeping work as exercise, and also that those in the informed group reported higher levels of fatigue than the uninformed group.

Approximately _____ of the world's population live(s) in _____.

Descriptive research methods are research methods that can be used to demonstrate a cause-and-effect relationship, but not to show correlational associations.

In Dr. Foster's study, one group is given a new medication that is believed to reduce anxiety. Another group is given a medication that looks like the real medication, but that contains none of the active ingredients that would affect anxiety. In this experiment, the experimental group is the:

In the Crum and Langer hotel experiment, the participants were selected from the housekeeping staff at seven carefully matched hotels.

Which statement best characterizes the evolutionary perspective of psychology?

When he was having academic difficulties, Walter received counseling and an assessment from a professional who also consulted with his parents, teachers, and other school staff. The professional working with Walter and his family is most likely a _____ psychologist.

Biological psychology is a subdiscipline of neuroscience that studies the diversity of human behavior in different cultural settings and countries.

_____ opened the first psychology laboratory in _____.

The results of the Crum and Langer hotel experiment were that:

Verifiable evidence that is based upon objective observation, measurement, and/or experimentation is called empirical evidence.

One advantage of survey research is that information can be gathered from a large group of people about the cause and effect of some phenomenon.

Which of the following people strongly objected to structuralism's use of introspection and its emphasis on conscious mental processes?

Behaviorism was characterized by:

Dr. McNair has been studying the effects of different levels of estrogen hormones on mating behaviors in male and female hamsters. Dr. McNair is most likely a _____ psychologist.

In a double-blind study, neither the researcher nor the participant is aware of the experimental condition to which the participant is assigned.