Psychology

Informed consent

A participant's agreement to participate in research after receiving information about the purposes of the study and the nature of the treatments is referred to as ________.

False

In a study conducted to test the effect of a medicine, one group of participants is given the medicine while another group is not. The latter would be considered an experimental group.

Forensic psychology

Juan loves watching crime dramas, and dreams of working to help determine whether defendants are competent for trial. What would be the best college major for Juan?

True

Many case studies are clinical; that is, they are descriptions of a person's psychological problems and how a psychologist treated them.

Placebo

Nathan is known to have moments of unnecessary drama when he behaves as if he is having a panic attack, even though he really isn't. During these moments, his friend friend Agador helps him to relax by giving him two tablets that Nathan thinks are real medication. In fact, they are just compressed baking soda that have no medicine in them. If Nathan feels better after taking the tablets, stating that they help him relax, the baking soda pills are acting as a(n) ________.

Surveys

One of the advantages of which method is that by distributing questionnaires and analyzing answers with a computer, psychologists can study many thousands of people at a time?

Gestalt

People in which field of psychology believed that learning consisted of both overt behaviors and meaningful "wholes?"

Placebos

When a patient insists on having a medical cure but a physician does not believe that medicine is necessary, the physician may prescribe sugar pills. Such fake pills are called ________.

They study the role of heredity in behavior and mental processes such as psychological disorders, criminal behavior, and thinking.

Which of the following is a typical characteristic of biologically-oriented psychologists?

It is designed to find solutions to specific personal or social problems.

Which of the following statements is true of applied research?

Humanistic-existential

Which perspective is grounded in the work of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow?

Mary Whiton Calkins

Who discovered the primacy and recency effects while pioneering the involvement of women in psychology?

Naturalistic observation

You have always wanted to know how your friend performs so well on her college exams. To find out how she studies, you decide to study with her for your next exam. This approach is most similar to ________.