PSY Chap 1: Pretest

Anna is 45 years old and is suffering from hot flashes and extreme moodiness. From an __ perspective Anna's symptoms can be attributed to menopause

biopsychological

__focuses on how people think remember store and use information

cognitive psychology

Dr Edwards wants to show a casual relationship between tobacco smoking and cancer Dr. Edwards should

conduct an experiment using animals participants

Mrs Lewis participated in a study in which she was given no treatment for her condition. Mrs Lewis was in the __ group

control

Experimenters control the effects of extraneous or confounding variables upon members of experimental and control groups by using

random assignment

Sasha sat in the preschool classroom and watch the children play writing down how well they interacted with each other. The children could see that Sasha was watching them, so they made an attempt to be extra well behaved for her. Sasha's research will be impacted by

the observer effect

Mrs'Connor participated in a study in which she was told she would try out a new allergy medicine. she was in the group that received a sugar pill, but she believed that the pill did indeed help control her allergy symptoms. This phenomenon is known as

the placebo effect

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

If a correlation coefficient is positive

the two variables increase in the same direction

The psychological perspective that is associate with William James is

Funtionalism

Dr. Jonas wanted to determine what would happen if rats were given food every time they completed a maze. He believed they would learn to complete the maze faster. This belief is called

a prediction

John Watson believed that phobias

are learned through the process of conditioning

When Mary took the survey in the mall she noticed that the interviewer was wearing an Obama button. She answered the questions more favorably toward Obama than she might otherwise have, probably because of

courtesy bias

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

double blind

Correlation will tell researchers __between variables

if there is a relationship , how strong, and what direction the relationship goes

Freud belived personality was formed

in first 6 years of life

Watson believe that behavior

is learned

Freud's theory of psychoanalysis

is still used by professionals today with less emphasis on sex and sexual motivation

A researcher wants to describe children's normal behavior on the playground. The best method for this research is to use

naturalistic observation

Researchers who allow their expectaions about what they will see to affect the results of their observation studies are suffering from

observer bias

a guideline for doing research with people is that

participants must be allowed to make an informed decision about participation

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

illustrates psychology's goal of control by

using rewards to help a smoker give up cigarettes