PSY Chap 1: Pretest
Anna is 45 years old and is suffering from hot flashes and extreme moodiness. From an __ perspective Anna's symptoms can be attributed to menopause
biopsychological
__focuses on how people think remember store and use information
cognitive psychology
Dr Edwards wants to show a casual relationship between tobacco smoking and cancer Dr. Edwards should
conduct an experiment using animals participants
Mrs Lewis participated in a study in which she was given no treatment for her condition. Mrs Lewis was in the __ group
control
Experimenters control the effects of extraneous or confounding variables upon members of experimental and control groups by using
random assignment
Sasha sat in the preschool classroom and watch the children play writing down how well they interacted with each other. The children could see that Sasha was watching them, so they made an attempt to be extra well behaved for her. Sasha's research will be impacted by
the observer effect
Mrs'Connor participated in a study in which she was told she would try out a new allergy medicine. she was in the group that received a sugar pill, but she believed that the pill did indeed help control her allergy symptoms. This phenomenon is known as
the placebo effect
Because psychologists want to be precise and measure as carefully as they can, they use__ to study psychology
the scientific method
Researchers use__ for reducing bias and error in the measurement of data
the scientific method
If a correlation coefficient is positive
the two variables increase in the same direction
The psychological perspective that is associate with William James is
Funtionalism
Dr. Jonas wanted to determine what would happen if rats were given food every time they completed a maze. He believed they would learn to complete the maze faster. This belief is called
a prediction
John Watson believed that phobias
are learned through the process of conditioning
When Mary took the survey in the mall she noticed that the interviewer was wearing an Obama button. She answered the questions more favorably toward Obama than she might otherwise have, probably because of
courtesy bias
A drug company is determining the effects of a treatment for depression. Neither the researcher nor the participants know who is getting the treatment and who is given a sugar pill. this type of study is.
double blind
Correlation will tell researchers __between variables
if there is a relationship , how strong, and what direction the relationship goes
Freud belived personality was formed
in first 6 years of life
Watson believe that behavior
is learned
Freud's theory of psychoanalysis
is still used by professionals today with less emphasis on sex and sexual motivation
A researcher wants to describe children's normal behavior on the playground. The best method for this research is to use
naturalistic observation
Researchers who allow their expectaions about what they will see to affect the results of their observation studies are suffering from
observer bias
a guideline for doing research with people is that
participants must be allowed to make an informed decision about participation
A__ has a medical degree and is a medical doctor who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders
psychiatrist
Mary is a psychologist who focuses on the role of the conscious and unconscious minds. to which perspective does Mary ascribe
psychodynamic
illustrates psychology's goal of control by
using rewards to help a smoker give up cigarettes