PSY 1

What strategy for research is the only way to determine causal relationship between variables with certainty?

A true experiment

What is the best definition of a scientific theory?

An interconnected set of ideas and statements that explain observed facts

Among other things, this field of psychological study examines thinking, learning, memory, and language.

Cognitive psychology

Which of the following best describes a double-blind study?

The participant in the experiment and the person collecting the data are not aware of the specific hypothesis being tested.

psychologist guided by this perspective believe that an understanding of the brain and body is important to understand behavior

Bio-behavioral

Stanley milgram's experiments on obedience were unethical mainly due to the use of

Deception

which of the following is the best description of the beliefs of psychoanalysts.

Humans are driven by unconscious conflicts and desires.

suppose you were conducting a study to examine whether infants can identify their mother's voices after birth. What discipline of science would be necessary to answer that question?

Psychological

what problem dose a psychologist have with measurement that a chemist might not have?

Psychologist do not always agree on definitions of behaviors and mental events

studies that use statistics to describe phenomena are called

Quantitative studies

A researcher wanted to determine whether the temperature of a room effected reading ability. She used three different temperatures (cold, warm, hot) with different groups of participants and measured their reading comprehension with multiple-choice questions. The dependent variable in the study was

Reading comprehension

which of the following is NOT an aspect of critical thinking?

Refusing to accept evidence of a claim against your beliefs.

Psychoanalysis is a perspective of psychology most associated with

Sigmund Freud

which of the following best describes the view of psychologist taking the evolutionary perspective?

The evolved in mind and the brain evolved in specific ways to help our ancestors solve problems.

A population of mental health patients were shown to have suffered abuse as children. which of the following is a TRUE conclusion/statement, based on this information.?

This is a Quasi-experiment

A researcher wanted to determine the effect of violent video game content on aggressive behavior in adolescents. To do so, he instructed one set of participants to play a violent video game and another set of participants to play a computerized chess match. The experimenter then measured participant's aggression levels. What was the independent variable?

Type of video game

One way to avoid accepting false finding in research is to

conduct replication studies

A variable in psychological research is a(n)

factor that changes or varies in magnitude or category