Psychology Chapter 1 Quiz

As a psychology researcher, you have found that the public expression of emotions differs among people from the United States, Japan, Switzerland, and Israel. This type of research fits best with which perspective in psychology?

Sociocultural perspective

What events do most historians consider to mark the formal beginning of psychology as a scientific discipline?

The establishment of the first psychology labatory by Wilhelm Wundt in 1879.

In an experiment, the control group is

The group of participants who are exposed to all experimental conditions except for the treatment of interest.

In an experiment, the dependent variable is.

Affected by changes in the independent variable.

Watson and Skinner's contentions that psychology should focus on observable behaviors to discover the fundamental laws of learning form the basis of which major perspective in contemporary psychology?

Behavioral

Considering the study of psychology is.

To conduct psychological research, one must systematically gather data.

An operational definition

a precise description of how each variable in a particular study will be manipulated or measured.

People who engage in critical thinking.

are open to new ideas, yet maintain a sense of skepticism.

One of the advantages of the experimental method is that

clear cause and effect relationships can be identified

Psychology is formally defined as:

the scientific study of behavior and mental processes