AP Psych
Mrs. Thompson believes that her son has learned to play the piano because she consistently rewards his efforts to learn with praise and affection. Her belief best illustrates a ________ perspective.
Behavioral
Heredity is to environment as the evolutionary perspective is to the ______ perspective
behavioral
The neuroscience perspective in psychology would be most likely to emphasize that behavior is influenced by
brain chemistry
The mean of a skewed distribution of scores is always
larger or smaller than the median
The suggestion that psychology is less of a set of facts than a method of evaluating ideas best highlights the _______ nature of psychology
scientific
The median of a distribution of scores is the
score exceeded by 50% of all the scores
A questioning attitude regarding psychologists assumptions and hidden values best illustrates
skeptical inquiry
Jake acts very differently with his family than he does when he is with his friends. Jake's behavior is most directly relevant to the issue of
stability vs change
Researchers and subjects in a drug-evaluation study are both ignorant about which subjects have actually received an experimental drug and which were given a placebo. This investigation involves the use of:
the double-blind procedure
The tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our own attitudes is known as
the false consensus effect
Testable Prediction that gives direction to research
hypothesis
Dr. Lewis is involved in an applied research study of customer satisfaction with a newly developed line of facial cosmetics and other beauty aids. Dr. Lewis is more likely an ______ psychologist
industrial/organizational
Who suggested that the mind at birth is but a "tabula rasa" upend which experience writes?
John Locke
Innate ability is learned skill as ______ is to ______
nature;nurture
A specification of how a researcher measures a research variable is known as an
operational definition
Mr. and Mrs. Klostreich have six children ages 5,6,6,7,8,16. The mean age of the Klostreich Children is
8
Contemporary psychology is best defined as the science of
behavior and mental processes
Researchers use experiments rather than other research methods in order to distinguish between
causes and effects
A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which changes in one factor are accompanied by changes in another is called an
correlation coefficient
Nature is to nurture as ______ is to ______
evolutionary perspective; behavioral perspective
The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to
exaggerate their ability to have foreseen the outcome of past events
In the control condition of an experiment the
experimental treatment is absent
In which type of research would an investigator manipulate one factor in order to observe its effect on some behavior or mental process?
experimentation
The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as
natural selection
Molly wonders whether personality differences between her african american and white friends result from biological or cultural differences. In this instance, Molly is primarily concerned with the issue of
nature vs nurture
Correlation research is most useful for purposes of
prediction
Clinical psychologist are most likely to be involved in
providing therapy to troubled people
The distinctive feature of the psychodynamic perspective is its emphasis on
unconscious conflicts