PSY 1010 Test 1

Which of the following is a criticism of structuralism?

C. The process was highly subjective.

Which of the following is not a potential problem associated with relying on college students as participants in psychological research?

C. They have higher attrition rates than other populations.

Ethics need to be considered when ________ scientific research.

C. designing, conducting, and reviewing

Oona wants to conduct research on personnel management, workplace environment, and what type of environment results in high levels of employee productivity and efficiency. Oona should conduct research in the area of ________ psychology.

C. industrial-organizational

A ________ scan involves taking a number of x-rays of a particular section of a person s body or brain.

CT Scan

The ________ group does not get the experimental treatment.

Control Group

Why do scientists refer to Charles Darwin s ideas about evolution as the theory of evolution?

D. It is the best understanding that we have of that part of the natural world.

In order to maximize the chances that experimental groups represent the population of interest, researchers should conduct ________ and ________.

D. random sampling; random group assignment

Research shows that people who smoke cigarettes are more likely to get lung cancer than those who do not smoke. This research alone demonstrates that ________.

D. there is a relationship between smoking and lung cancer

Harrison et al. are conducting a study assessing the ability of depressed versus non-depressed participants to remember negative emotions in a short story about a family whose car breaks down. They plan to ask participants to read the story and then make a list of the emotions expressed in the story. Before beginning the study, they make a list of negative emotions (e.g., sadness and anger) that they will record from the participants responses. In this example, negative emotions are the ________.

Dependent Variable

In a ________ study, both the researchers and the participants are unaware of the group assignments.

Double-Blind

Researchers are conducting a study where they have concerns that the participant s beliefs and/or the experimenter s beliefs may skew the results. Therefore, they chose to conduct a ________ study.

Double-Blind

The ________ is involved in our experience of emotion and tying emotional meaning to our memories.

amygdala

Which of the following exemplifies the sense of audition?

hearing a song on the radio

Behaviorists study ________

learned behavior

What should be changed to make the following sentence true? The central tenet of Gestalt psychology is that the pattern is different from the sum of its parts

pattern to whole

Which of the following refers to a broad explanation or group of explanations for some aspect of the natural world that is consistently supported by evidence over time?

scientific theory

________ research uses past records or data sets to investigate research questions or to look for patterns or relationships.

A. archival

Krista and Tatiana Hogan are participants in a(n) ________ of conjoined twins who are joined at the head

A. case study

Critical thinking is ________

B. applying a set of skills to understand and evaluate information

The possible range for a correlation coefficient is ________.

B. between 1 and +1

________ refers to the ability to consistently produce a given result.

B. reliability

The ________ is located deep within the brain, and it includes structures such as the substantia nigra and ventral tegmental area.

Midbrain

The ________ extends through the hindbrain, midbrain, and forebrain.

Reticular formation

Select the correctly ordered list of psychological theorists, with the earliest theorist listed first.

Wilhelm Wundt, Sigmund Freud, Noam Chomsky

Clive Wearing could remember which of the following types of memory?

can't remember everything from the past. He knows how to use written and spoken language, but doesn't know how he knows that information. He knows his wife, but doesn't know how they met.

In addition to sweet, salty, sour, and bitter, what other taste groupings do we possess?

umami and fat content