PSY 101 Final Exam Study

Which of the following is an Institutional Review Board going to be investigating? -determining whether participants are giving informed consent before becoming involved in the study -determining whether a study about to be conducted has no form of deception as a part of it -determining whether or not a researcher is manipulating information in their statistical analyses -inspecting the conditions of a facilities that animals used in research are housed in

-Determining whether participants are giving informed consent before becoming involved in the study

A __________ psychologist would be most likely to research this question: How do people encode information into memory when it is inconsistent with information that is already in memory? -cognitive -evolutionary -biological -sensation and perception

Cognitive

According to Thomas Hobbes' argument on the state of human nature, he believed we were all born: -pursing truth -evil savages -a blank slate -innately good

Evil savages

For a class project Beth decided to conduct a study on people's preference for different types of coffee. She recruited twenty coffee drinkers to drink a sample of an unlabeled cup of coffee and then rank how much they enjoyed the taste of the coffee. Ten of them drank Starbucks brand coffee and ten of them drank Dunking Donuts brand coffee. What design was Beth using for her study? -longitudinal -experimental -cross-sectional -correlational

Experimental

Joe is asked to sit in a room and stare at an impressionist painting hung on the wall and tell the researchers what comes to his mind while looking at it. What historical perspective would the researchers most agree with? -functionalism -gestalt psychology -intra-analytic psychology -structuralism

Functionalism

Jane was walking around campus at the university her friend goes to and noticed that almost everyone was wearing some piece of clothing that had the school's name or logo on it, which was much rarer at the one she attended. As a result she hypothesized that there was much more school spirit at her friend's university than her own. What type of reasoning is Jane engaging in? -empirical -parsimonious -inductive -deductive

Inductive

Barry was collecting data for a study on adolescents' interactions with peers. For the study he went into the lunchrooms at the school and recorded the interaction that fifty different students had with other during their lunch period for an entire week. What approach to research was Barry taking? -contrived observation -case study -naturalistic observation -survey

Naturalistic observation

The empirical method of study is based on: -guesswork -practice -observation -statistics

Observation

Psychologists have investigated what gene causes a person to develop to be intelligent, but have found that it is not a single gene that affects intelligence but many of them. This is referred to as __________ inheritance. -multiplicative -reactive -polygenetic -mendelian

Polygenetic

A study investigated the effects of using barefoot running shoes vs. traditional running on how many injuries they incurred during a five year time period. They recruited 50 marathon runners to be assigned to either wear barefoot or traditional shoes and every year they reported the number of injuries they experienced. What is the independent variable of this study? -injury proneness -marathon runners -50 -shoe type

Shoe type

A __________ psychologist would be most likely to research this question: Is there a difference between introverts and extraverts on how well they do in science and English classes? -social -personality -developmental -health

Social