General Psychology PSYC-2301 Unit 1 (Ch.1-3)

Which of the following correlation coefficients indicates the strongest relationship between two variables?

-.90

In Milgram's controversial study on obedience, nearly _______ of the participants were willing to administer what appeared to be lethal electrical shocks to another person because they were told to do so by an authority figure.

2/3

Humans have ______ pairs of chromosomes.

23

_____________ is most well-known for proposing his hierarchy of needs.

Abraham Maslow

Which of the following was mentioned as a skill to which psychology students would be exposed?

All of the above. Critical thinking, Use of the scientific method, and critical evaluation of sources of information.

Height and weight are positively correlated. This means that

As height increases, typically weight increases

Scientific knowledge is ______.

Empirical

_______ are defined as observable realities.

Facts

Which psychologist's theory focused on the influence of childhood events and unconscious motives?

Freud

A researcher interested in what factors make an employee best suited for a given job would most likely identify as a(n) ______ psychologist.

I-O

_______ is to animal research as _______ is to human research.

IACUC; IRB

A(n) _________ uses magnetic fields to create pictures of a given tissue.

MRI

Which theorist would have been most likely to agree with this statement: Perceptual phenomena are best understood as a combination of their components.

Max Wertheimer

Multiple sclerosis involves the breakdown of the _________.

Myelin sheath

An individual's consistent pattern of thought and behavior is known as a(n)?

Personality

If someone wanted to become a psychology professor at a 4-year college, then they would probably need a ______ degree in psychology.

PhD

Before psychology became a recognized academic discipline, matters of the mind were undertaken by those in?

Philosophy

The ________ secretes hormones that regulate the body's fluid levels.

Pituitary

The ______ places less emphasis on research and more emphasis on application of therapeutic skills.

PsyD

The operant conditioning chamber( aka ______ box) is a device used to study the principles of operant conditioning.

Skinner

Psyche is a Greek word meaning?

Soul

Which of the following is not a structure of the forebrain?

Substantia Nigra

Scientific hypotheses are _____ and falsifiable.

Testable

The ______ is a sensory relay station where all sensory information, except for smell, goes before being sent to other areas of the brain for further processing.

Thalamus

The major limitation of case studies is _______.

The inability to generalize the findings from this approach to the larger population.

Which statement best illustrates a negative correlation between the number of hours spent watching TV the week before an exam and the grade on that exam?

The more hours a student watches, the lower the exam grade.

Carl Rogers believed that providing genuineness, empathy, and _____ in the therapeutic environment for his clients was critical to their being able to deal with their problems.

Unconditional positive regard

Damage to the ________ disrupts one's ability to comprehend language, but it leaves one's ability to produce words intact.

Wernicke's area

The ________ gland secretes epinephrine

adrenal

A(n) _________ facilitates or mimics the activity of a given neurotransmitter system.

agonist

Using existing records to try to answer a research question is known as ________.

archival research

Longitudinal research is complicated by high rates of _______.

attrition

A researcher interested in how changes in the cells of the hippocampus are related to memory formation would be most likely to identify as a(n) _____ psychologist.

biological

The central nervous system is comprised of __________

brain and spinal cord

Sigmund Freud developed his theory of human personality by conducting in-depth interviews over an extended period of time with a few clients. This type of research approach is known as a(n):___________.

case study

Researchers might use ________ when providing participants with the full details of the experiment could skew their responses.

deception

The ________ receive(s) incoming signals from other neurons.

dendrites

_______ is the field of study that focuses on genes and their expression.

epigenetics

_______ refers to a person's genetic makeup, while ______ refers to a person's physical characteristics.

genotype; phenotype

The two major hormones secreted from the pancreas are:

glucagon and insulin

The _____ is controlled by the experimenter, while the _______ represents the information collected and statistically analyzed by the experimenter.

independent variable; dependent variable

Before participating in an experiment, individuals should read and sign the _______.

informed consent

An action potential involves Na+ moving ________ the cell and K+ moving ________ the cell.

inside; outside

The correlation coefficient indicates the weakest relationship when ______.

it is closest to 0

_______ involves following a group of research participants for an extended period of time.

longitudinal research

A(n) ______ is a sudden, permanent change in a sequence of DNA.

mutation

______ involves observing behavior in individuals in their natural environments.

naturalistic observation

Researchers must ________ important concepts in their studies so others would have a clear understanding of those concepts.

operationalize

If your ________ is activated, you will feel relatively at ease.

parasympathetic nervous system

The ______ secretes messenger hormones that direct the function of the rest of the endocrine glands.

pituitary

Sometimes, researchers will administer a(n) __________ to participants in the control group to control for the effects that participant expectation might have on the experiment.

placebo

In the scientific method, a hypothesis is a(n)?

proposed explanation

Sympathetic activation is associated with _______.

pupil dilation and increased heart rate

________ means that everyone in the population has the same likelihood of being selected to participate in the study.

random sampling

Our ability to make our legs move as we walk across the room is controlled by the ______ nervous system.

somatic

A(n) ________ is a list of questions developed by a researcher that can be administered in paper form.

survey

The benefit of naturalistic observation studies is _________.

the honesty of the data that is collected in a realistic setting.

A person's participation in a research project must be ______.

voluntary

A major criticism of Freud's early theories involves the fact that his theories _______.

were not testable