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Int.Psychology Test
Intro to psychology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In the definition of psycholgy, behavior means | C. outward or overt actions and reactions |
| A pyschologist is interested in what a particular person might do in a stressful situation. The psychologist is most interested in the goal of | C. prediction |
| Dr.Watson designs a special behavior program for helping children who are bullies learn how to be less aggressive and more sucessful in social relationships. Dr. Watson is most interested in the goal of | D. Control |
| The first step in studying animal behavior is to observe animals and record everything they do, when they do it, and what is going on around them when they do it. This meets the goal of | A. Description |
| Experimental psychologists, who design experiments to determine the causes of behavior, would be most interested in the goal of | B. Explanation |
| Name which of the following early psychologists would have been most likely to agree with the statement, "The study of the mind should focus on how it allows us to adapt to our surroundings." | B. William James |
| Which early perspective would have been LEAST likely to agree with the structuralists? | D. Gesalt |
| What did Freud believe controlled most, if not all, of our behavior? | C. the unconscious mind |
| Who among the following would be LEAST likely to talk about conscious experiences? | C. Watson |
| Who was the first woman president of the American Psychological Assoiation? | A. Mary Whiton Calkins |
| In the experiment with "Little Peter" what did Mary Cover Jones use as a stimulus to counter Little Peter's fear of the rabbit? | B. Food |
| Which of the following pairs represents the two psycologhy perspectives that were also part of the historical beginnings of psychology? | B. Behaviorism and Psychodynamics |
| Which perspective is known as the "third force" in psychology> | D. Humanism |
| Elsie suffered a stroke and had to be hospitalized. While in the hospital, she talked funny, garbled words and seemed to think that she was being held against her will. Which of the following perspectives BEST explains Elsie's odd behaviors? | D. Biopsychology |
| Which perspective would a researcher be taking if she were studying the way children store and retrieve information? | C. Cognitive psychology |
| Which of the following historical perspectives gave rise, at least in part, to the evolutionary perspective? | C. Psychiatric social worker |
| Which of the following specialties in psychology deals with diagnosis and treatment of disorders? | A. Clinical |
| Max is intrested in becoming a psychologist. He is most intrested in how people in groups behave differently from people who act alone. He would most likely specialize in_____ psychology. | D. Social |
| Dr. Roaden works in a school system, dealing directly with children who have emotional, academic, and behavioral problems. Dr. Roaden is most likely which type of psychologist? | C. School |
| In the scientific method, the first step is | B. perceiving a question |
| In a naturalistic observation, the phenomenon in which the behavior of the subjects being observed changes because they are being watched is called | C. Observer effect |
| The use of ______ helps to control for the effect of observer bias. | A. Blind observers |
| The main disadvantage of a case study is that it is not | C. Generalizable to other similar conditions. |
| Which of the following is the BEST example of a representative sample? | C. You choose people shopping in an expensive store in the mall to respond to your survey. |
| It’s pretty common knowledge that the more you study, the higher your grade will be. What kind of correlation is this relationship? | A. Positive |
| Which of the following would indicate the strongest relationship between two variables: | B. −0.89 |
| In an experiment to test the effects of alcohol on memory, the experimenter gives vodka mixed in orange juice to one group of subjects and orange juice with no vodka to the other group. She then measures the memory skills of both groups by means of a memo | B. the presence or absence of vodka in the orange juice. |
| In that same experiment, the control group is the one that gets | D. the orange juice without vodka. |
| In a __________ study, neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the control group and who is in the experimental group. | C. Double blind |
| In Dr. Amabile’s classic experiment of the effects of reward on creativity, what was the dependent variable? | C. the ratings of creativity from the experts for each child’s collage |
| Which of the following is NOT one of the common ethical rules? | B. Deception cannot be used in any studies with human beings. |
| We use animals in research because | D. All of the above are true |
| 3.A famous newscaster advertises a new magnetic mattress for controlling pain. If Nathaniel decides to order the mattress because he believes that such a well-known personality should know if it works or not, he has made an error in which of the following | C. Authority or expertise does not make the claims of the authority or expert true. |
| Critical thinking means making judgments based on | C. reason and logical evaluation |
| Which pseudopsychology claims to understand personality through a study of the bumps on one’s skull? | A. phrenology |
| In the definition of psychology, mental processes means | A. internal, covert processes. |
| A psychologist is interested in finding out why identical twins have different personalities. This psychologist is most interested in the goal of | B. explanation |
| Psychologists who give potential employees tests that determine what kind of job those employees might best fit are interested in the goal of | C. prediction |
| Which early theorist developed his perspective on psychology by basing it on Darwin's "survival of the fittest" doctrine? | B. William James |
| "The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" is a statement associated with the perspective of | D. Gestalt psychologists. |
| __________ was (were) the focus of Watson's behaviorism. | D. Observable experiences |
| Who is most associated with the technique of introspection? | A. Wundt |
| Who was denied a Ph.D. despite completing all the requirements for earning the degree? | A. Mary Whiton Calkins |
| Which perspective focuses on free will and self-actualization? | D. humanism |
| Jenna suffers from a nervous tic of washing her hands repeatedly and being unable to resist washing them again and again. Which perspective would explain Jenna's hand-washing behavior as a result of repressed conflicts? | A. psychodynamics |
| Which perspective looks at perception, learning, and memory? | C. cognitive psychology |
| Which perspective assumes that human behavior may have developed in certain directions because it served a useful function in preserving the species? | D. evolutionary perspective |
| Which of the following professionals in psychology has the broadest area of interests and functions? | D. psychologist |
| 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 | A. psychiatrist |
| Which of the following specialties in psychology provides diagnosis and treatment for less serious mental problems such as adjustment disorders? | B. counseling |
| In the scientific method, forming an educated guess is called | D. forming a hypothesis |
| In a laboratory setting observation, the main advantage of this method is | A. the degree of control it allows the observer |
| Harlan wanted to write realistically about street gangs, so he pretended to be a teenager and joined a real gang. This is most similar to the method of | D. participant observation |
| The main advantage of a case study is | C. the amount of detail it provides about an individual. |
| The entire group that a researcher is interested in is called a | B. population |
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