Psych Ch 1 Quiz

Emotional

"Examines how the human capacity to feel, express, and perceive emotions plays an important role in decision making, behavior, and social relationships" best describes what perspective?

Clinical psychologist

Which type of psychologist is most likely to work with patients who have serious mental disorders such as major depression?

neglect evidence that does not support their hypothesis

Conspiracy theorists often fail to fight confirmation bias and therefore

its predictions are difficult to falsify

Evolutionary psychology has been criticized because

not at all

In a study of speed dating, researchers found that the characteristics that people said they cared about in a partner were _____________ related to the people they said they'd like to have a follow up date with'

psychoanalysis

Just as behaviorism was gaining popularity in the United States, Sigmund Freud was founding a new field of psychology, one that focused on internal psychological processes such as unconscious impulses, thoughts, and memories. This field is called

introspection

Wilhelm Wundt developed the first full-fledged psychological laboratory in 1879 in Leipzig, Germany. He pioneered the technique of _______, in which trained observers reflected on and reported on their own mental experiences.

don't feel a sense of control

Research has shown that people are especially prone to being susceptible to pseudoscience when

Observationism

Science begins with the premise that knowledge should first be acquired through observation. This premise is called ______________

the human tendency to see patterns in meaningless data

Science writer Michael Shermer coined the termed "patternicity" to refer to

Birds of a feather flock together

Several examples of common sense ideas that turn out not to be true after scientific study were provided in your reading. Which of the following is NOT one of those common sense ideas that was falsified by research?

Correlation isn't causation

The "third variable problem" is associated with which scientific thinking principle?

naive realism

The belief that "seeing is believing" is an example of

can be contradictory

The proverbs "birds of a feather flock together" and "opposites attract" are examples of how things we consider to be common sense _________________

falsifiable

When we ask if it is possible for a claim made in a research study to be disproved, we are asking if the claim is

Relying on stories of individuals

Which of the following is an indication of pseudoscience?

Seek and ye shall find.

Which of the following sayings is a good summary of confirmation bias?