Psych Unit 1 Test
Which of the following best describes the response of members of the APA to ethical issues in research?
They have developed codes of ethics for research with both human and animal subjects.
Drawing a random sample of people from a town for an interview study of social attitudes ensures that
each person in town has the same probability of being chosen for the study
Which of the following best describes the placebo effect
it can be brought about by the individual's expectations
Ethical principles developed by the APA help ensure that human participants in psychological research
Are protected form physical and psychological harm
A double-blind control is essential for which of the following?
Assessment of a treatment designed to reduce schizophrenic symptoms
Which of the following approaches to psychology emphasizes observable responses over inner experiences when accounting for behavior?
Behaviorist
Which theoretical perspective in psychology attempts to characterize the way humans store and process sensory info?
Cognitive
In an experiment, which of the following refers to the measured outcome
Dependent Variable
A research design involves two randomly assigned groups of participants. One group is treated one time and the other isn't. Later they are compared, this is called.
Experiment
Which of the following perspectives argues that every person can become self actualizares?
Humanistic
In the 1800's activist Dorothea Dix led a movement in support of
Improving the treatment of patients with mental disorders in asylums
In a normal distribution, which of the following statements is true about the area that falls between one standard deviation above and one below the mean?
It contains the middle 68% of the distribution
The correlation between two measures is represented as a
Scatter Plot
Introspection, a research tool used by early psychologists, is a technique involving
Self examination of mental processes
Psychodynamic Therapy has its roots in
Sigmund Freud
Which of the following most accurately describes a dependent variable?
Some aspect of a participant's response that is measured in an experiment
A research psychologist generalizes from a particular sample to a population. This is an example of
Statistical inference
When is it permissible for a psychologist to share a clients test scores with another person?
When the client provides written permission to share results
In experimental psychology, a significant difference refers to a
difference not likely due to chance
In their discussions of the process of development, the advocates of nature in the nature-nurture controversy emphasize which of the following?
maturation
Which of the following measures can be precisely located on a graph of a skewed distribution without using any calculations?
mode
A disadvantage of longitudinal studies is that
participants who drop out during the course of the study may be different in important ways from ones who do not drop out
The belief that human behavior is the result of unconscious drives and conflicts represents which of the following theoretical perspectives?
psychoanalytic
Which of the following is used to reduce the effect of confounding variables in experiments?
random assignment
Which of the following is NOT an APA ethical guideline
research may involve deception
A researcher surveyed social adjustment in the same group of 20 people from early childhood through adulthood. In this example, the group of 20 people surveyed was the study's
sample
Standard deviation is a measure of how much
scores in a group differ from the mean of that group
The most distinctive characteristic of the experimental method is that it
seeks to establish cause-effect relationships
Cognitive psychologists are most likely to study
the acquisition of knowledge, planning, and problem solving
A teacher finds the distribution of scores on a final exam to be positively skewed with low variability. On the basis of this information, the teacher would be most justified in concluding that
the exam was too difficult