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Psyc Random 1.
Psyc 101. Quiz 1. A/B
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Q1: Joanna has suffered a series of personal setbacks, including the death of a family member, academic problems in college, and a divorce. She feels so sad, upset, and lonely that she is contemplating suicide. Joanna could probably best be helped by ... | a(n) _____ psychologist. Answer: clinical |
| Q2: Behaviorism was characterized by: | the rejection of consciousness as a topic in psychology and a focus upon observable behavior. |
| Q3: Which type of research method is used to show that one variable causes change in another variable? | survey |
| Q4: What field of psychology focuses on designing programs that promote the intellectual, social, and emotional development of children? | social |
| Q5: A _____ is a specific question or prediction to be tested, whereas a(n) _____ tries to integrate and summarize a large number of findings. | hypothesis; theory |
| Q6: What is social loafing? | It is the tendency to exert more effort on a task when working alone than when working as part of a group |
| Q7: Unobtrusively, Professor Baddeley and two of her students record the willingness of boys and girls to volunteer for an elephant or a donkey ride at the local zoo. Baddeley is using: | experimental research methods. |
| Q8: Psychologist Harry Triandis has said, “All cultures are simultaneously very similar and very different.” What does Triandis mean by this statement? | People in different cultures share many fundamental human attributes and motives, yet people in each culture express these qualities and motives in different ways. |
| Q9: Which of the following fields had the greatest impact on the emergence of psychology as a separate scientific discipline? | mathematics |
| Q10: Humanistic psychology emphasized: | unconscious determinants of personality and behavior. |
| Q11: “I hate doing group projects in my classes,” Hillary complained. “When we do a group project, people just don't work as hard as they do when they are working alone.” Hillary's observation reflects a psychological phenomenon called: | random selection. |
| Q12: Which famous Greek philosopher wrote extensively about such psychological topics as sleep and dreaming, the senses, memory, and learning? | Aristotle |
| Q13: It was _____ who opened the first psychology laboratory in _____. | Wilhelm Wundt; 1879 |
| Q14: A theory: | integrates and summarizes diverse findings on the same topic. |
| Q15: As a psychology researcher, you have found that the public expression of emotions differs among people from the United States, Japan, Switzerland, and Israel. This type of research fits best with which perspective in psychology? | cross-cultural perspective |
| Q16: Research on social loafing demonstrated that European subjects engage in social loafing whereas Chinese subjects display the opposite behavior. These results illustrate the importance of _____ psychology. | cross-cultural |
| Q17: The _____ perspective emphasizes studying the physical bases of human and animal behavior, including the nervous system and genetics. | humanistic |
| Q18: Lynn has just received a research grant to study the effect of downsizing on morale at a large computer company. Lynn is most likely a(n) _____ psychologist. | industrial/organizational |
| Q19: Which early school of psychology relied on a method called introspection? | structuralism |
| Q20: Which of the following is an example of a paranormal phenomenon? | any one of the extrasensory perception (ESP) abilities, such as mental telepathy |
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