Quiz 1 9-11

Gestalt psychology, with it's emphasis on topics such as learning and perception, was an important early precursor to the rise of _______ Psychology in America.

Cognitive

Which cognitive bias seems to best explain people's choices on the Wasson Card Selection task?

Confirmation bias

Who was the German physiologist whose early work involved measuring the speed of neural impulses and exploring the physiology of hearing?

Hermann von Helmholtz

When an exact replication does not find the same results as the original research, what does it mean?

It's is difficult to determine because there are several potential causes of non-replication

The Reproducibility Project: Psychology was an attempt to replicate 100 psychological studies. Approximately what percentage of studies got the same result as the original study? In other words, what percentage of the studies replicated?

33-36%

The belief that knowledge is best acquired as a direct result of experience is called

Empiricism

What would a researcher attempting to conduct an exact replication of a past study do?

The researcher would read the published article about the original research and use the same materials and procedures with new participants.

Which model of training in psychology, first established in Boulder, Colorado in 1949, emphasizes the development of both clinical and research skills during one's education?

The scientist-practitioner model

According to the lecture, hindsight bias is.

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.