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