Exam 1: Thinking Critically With Psychological Science

One of your professors has used observational evidence to justify a cause-effect conclusion.Questioning the validity of drawing this conclusion from the evidence best illustrates

Which perspective would help us to understand the impact of strokes and brain diseases on memory?

Dr.Matias has concluded that very few people in a small African country suffer from alcohol use disorder because of the strong influence of their religion.This belief best illustrates a(n)________ perspective.

Dr.Santaniello conducts research on how children's moral thinking changes as they grow older.It is most likely that Dr.Santaniello is a(n)________ psychologist.

After predicting world events,such as whether Quebec would separate from Canada,mistaken experts maintained that they were "almost right." This attitude is an example of

A refusal to consider potential evidence that might conflict with one's preconceived ideas best illustrates a lack of

Inherited traits are to learned habits as the ________ perspective is to the ________ perspective.

Humanistic psychologists focused attention on the importance of people's

Which of the following is true for those assigned to a control group?

Why is the report that "teens who do not get enough sleep are at an increased risk for mental health problems" problematic?

Dr.Caleigh conducts research on the relationship between adults' language skills and their capacity to solve mathematical problems.Dr.Caleigh is most likely a ________ psychologist.

Dr.McAllister is studying anger as it relates to violent criminal offenders.He is particularly interested in how environmental circumstances relate to feelings of anger among these offenders,as well as how feelings of anger affect thought processes.He is working from a(n)

The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to

Natassia believes that boys learn to be more aggressive than girls primarily because boys are more frequently pressured to defend themselves with fists.Natassia's belief is best described as an example of the ________ perspective.

The testing effect is sometimes called

The type of research that enables psychologists to avoid the problem of small sample sizes is called

Which of the following facilitates more exact descriptions of ongoing behaviors without explaining them?

Psychology experiments are typically designed to

In a well-controlled experiment,researchers seek to minimize

The most reliable way of testing whether a newly introduced method of psychological therapy is truly effective is to use