Psychology Exam 1: 1, ,5, 10
Goals of psychology
Controlling, explaining, predicting and describing
Making reasoned judgments about claims is known as
Critical Thinking
A researcher wants to determine how most US college students feel about the president. Which group provides a representative sample for this researchers study?
Students selected randomly at college campuses across the country
Scientists report their results even if an experiment failed because
researches studying the same things will gain from what has already been learned.
In a negative correlation
In a negative correlation, the two variables are INVERSELY related.
___ refers to the tendency of observers to see what they expect to see
Observer bias
The _____ perspective was a reaction to both psychoanalytic theory and behaviorism
cognitive
Harboring a belief that all male motorcyclists wear beards, then only noticing bearded motorcyclists is an example of
confirmation bias
Over 40% of psychologists are
educational settings
Which research method will allow researchers to determine the cause of a behavior?
experiment
Description involves _____ a person's behavior.
observing
Psychologists who give potential employees tests that determine what kind of jobs those employees might best perform are interested in
prediction
The sociocultural perspective studies
the effect people have on one another, both individually and in a large group