Psychology Exam 1

Wundt referred to the process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities as ____________

Objective introspection

A doctor informs the parents of a 14-year-old that, without hospitalization, her anorexia nervosa will worsen and cause grave medical conditions. The doctor is making a(n):_________________

Prediction

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

A professional who holds a doctoral degree (But has not attended medical school) and may work in a wide number of vocational settings would be a ____________

Psychologist

The largest subfield of psychology is ____________

clinical

Today, Gestalt ideas are part of which branch of psychology?

cognitive psychology

An institutional review board reviews a study's ___________

safety and consideration for the research participants

The belief that every experience can be broken down into its individual emotions and sensations is known as ___________

structuralism

In the Wesleyan University study of male college athletes, the control group consisted of __________

students who answered the high threat question after taking the test.

What is the main advantage of laboratory observation?

the degree of control it gives the researcher

Animals are used in about ______ percent of all psychological studies

7

The theory of operant conditioning was developed by ________________

B.F. Skinner

The idea that sexual orientation may be related to the birth order of male children was posited by researchers in the field of __________

Biopsychology

A drug company is determining the effects of treatment for depression. Neither the researcher nor the participants know who is getting the treatment and who is given the sugar pill. This type of study is

Double-blind

What is Gestalt psychology?

It focuses on perception of patterns and whole figures and events

Psychologists in the counseling specialization

Must be licensed to practice in their states

Studying children's interactions by watching them play on the school playground is an example of ________________

Naturalistic observation

The first step in the scientific method is ______________

Perceiving the question

By making a loud noise when "Little Albert" was presented with a rat, John Watson taught the baby to fear rats. This proved that ______________

Phobias could be learn through conditioning

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

In an experiment, it is best to divide participants into the control or experimental group by

Using random experiment

Within the field of psychology, metal processes refer to ____________

all internal, covert activity of our minds

Consider the following statement. "women avoid computer science because it is stereotypically dominated by males. This, in turn, leads many women to feel the field is not assessable to them." This is an example of a(n)________________

explanation

The psychological perspective that is associated with William James is

functionalism

The bystander effect says that people in a crowd are ______ help someone in trouble as compared to a person witnessing someone in need of help in the absence of others

less likely too

When Mary took the survey in the mall, she noticed that the interviewer was wearing a campaign button for the mayor. She answered the questions about the mayor more favorably than she might otherwise have, probably because:

of courtesy bias

What do we call to variables that increase in the same direction

positive correlation