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Intro to Psych
Chapters 1-4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which one of the following statements about psychology is true? | Psychology is relevant to every part of the human experience. |
| Zach is thinking about dropping his introductory psychology course because he claims that the whole subject is merely common sense. Which of the following tendencies is he demonstrating? | the overconfidence effect |
| What were the two main branches of psychology during the early development of the field? | the scientific and clinical branches |
| Which of the following could be an example of empirical evidence? | data gathered by a questionnaire and published in an academic journal |
| Which of the following tools will help Yu-ri most efficiently evaluate the article’s claims? | critical thinking |
| Which of the following research questions is best studied with the cognitive perspective? | Why do people remember some events but not others? |
| What research tool is best suited to the biological-neuroscience perspective? | brain imaging techniques |
| Cyrus is running a study on whether people perform better on a task with complete strangers or with recent acquaintances. Which of these psychological perspectives is he most likely using? | social perspective |
| According to positive psychology, what are the three components of happiness? | positive emotion and pleasure, engagement with life, and living a meaningful life with good relationships and a history of accomplishment |
| What is a key benefit of taking introductory psychology in college? | Taking introductory psychology equips you with critical thinking tools that help you make informed decisions. |
| Robin is a freshman who is taking introduction to psychology. How should she study for her upcoming midterm exam? | She should meet with a study group for an hour every other day. |
| Which of the following explains why conclusions provided by psychological science are better than those reached by people’s intuition or personal experience? | Psychological science systematically tests ideas using controlled methods and multiple people. |
| If data collected in a study do not confirm a hypothesis, which of the following is likely to happen? | The researchers will change the theory a little bit, and test the revised theory in a new study. |
| A developmental psychologist is conducting a study on children’s interest in attending college. Which of the following variables could a researcher measure but not manipulate? | grade point average |
| A researcher counts the number of times a person says “I” or “me” in a 10-minute recorded conversation. This specification of how this variable will be measured is known as which of the following? | operational definition |
| Which of the following relationships between a sample and a population of interest would allow us to have confidence in the results of a survey? | The people in the sample closely resemble the people in the population. |
| Which type of data would be better collected by observational methods than by self-reported methods? | the amount of time it takes to help a person pick up dropped papers |
| A cognitive psychologist hypothesizes that people who exercise more will also have better memories (e.g., be able to recall more words). Which of the following scatterplot patterns would provide support for her hypothesis? | dots that slope upward from left to right |
| the number of minutes people spend on social media-first week of college - satisfaction with life during their fourth week of college. Which criterion for causation prevents you from concluding that social media usage causes lower life satisfaction? | There may be alternate explanations for the relationship between social media usage and life satisfaction. |
| self-report study number of minutes people spend on SM first week of college - satisfaction with life during their fourth week of college. Which changes could be made to the study to change it from a correlational study to an experimental study? | manipulating how many minutes people spend on social media during the first week of college |
| Which of the following is necessary to ensure that the three groups are equally satisfied with life at the beginning of the study? | random assignment |
| Which of the following is true of random assignment and random sampling? | Random sampling and random assignment are both used to deal with potential bias. |
| The fact that the theory-data cycle is iterative implies which of the following is true of different research methods? | Data from different research methods are combined to understand a topic. |
| You read a headline on your newsfeed that states, “Study finds that women are better drivers than men.” To consider this study’s construct validity, you would want information about which of the following? | the operational definition of “good driver” |
| Which of the following questions would be related to your concern about the study’s external validity? | Can the results of the study say something about all drivers? |
| Ruling out alternative explanations, or confounds, enhances which aspect of a study? | experimental validity |
| When looking at graphs presented in the popular press, which of the toolkit questions might you need to especially focus on? | How strong is the result? |
| In what way are means and standard deviations similar to one another? | They are both examples of descriptive statistics. |
| How are the r statistic and the d statistic similar? | They are both measures of the size of an effect. |
| Saying that a finding is “statistically significant” means that it | is unlikely to have happened by chance if the null hypothesis is true. |
| Preregistration is an important aspect of high-quality science because | it allows researchers to publicize their hypotheses before collecting data. |
| Providing informed consent is done to address which of the following ethical principles? | principle of autonomy |
| Animal researchers are encouraged to use alternative methods to animal research whenever possible. This is known as the principle of | replacement |
| Which of the following could be called the cellular building block(s) of the brain? | neurons |
| Order some of the components of the nervous system from most broad to most specific: parasympathetic nervous system, peripheral nervous system, neuron, nervous system, autonomic nervous system, nerve | nervous system, peripheral nervous system, autonomic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system, nerve, neuron |
| Desmond feels a wave of comfort when cuddling with his girlfriend, brought on by a flood of oxytocin in his body. Which organ is responsible for this feeling? | pituitary gland |
| Margaret has begun to experience strange sensations of flavor, even when nothing is in her mouth. If her neurologist is concerned that Margaret might have a brain abnormality, which part of the brain would the neurologist likely examine first? | the insular lobe |
| Won’s grandfather has Parkinson’s disease, which makes initiating movements or speech difficult. Which part of the brain is most impacted in this disease? | basal ganglia |
| Setting aside routine functions, which of the following brain areas must operate exceptionally well for a concert pianist to perform the most difficult pieces of music? | cerebellum |
| Suppose you are about to monitor and measure the activity in a psychopath’s prefrontal cortex. What do you expect to see? | abnormally reduced activity overall |
| Which of the following is based in the left hemisphere for most people? | language |
| Suppose you want to participate in a study mapping the structure of a living person’s brain. Which of the following techniques for studying brain structure exposes living patients to the least health risk? | magnetic resonance imaging |
| Which of the following is an example of a double dissociation? | Damage to Wernicke’s area impairs language comprehension but not language production, whereas damage to Broca’s area impairs language production but not language comprehension. |
| What do the EEG and MEG imaging methods have in common? | They are precise in detecting when brain activity occurs, but they are imprecise in detecting where brain activity occurs. |
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