No Notes Quiz

Institution(s) that provide psychological guidelines for studies in the US and UK

John Locke is know for his idea of

The average measure of variance between scores around the mean

Which female figure was denied a Ph. D because of her gender?

A study in which neither the participants nor experimenters know which group received the treatment or placebo

Which two believed we were born with inherent knowledge?

T or F: the APA is a federally mandated committee that oversees institution's animal program, facilities, and procedures

T or F: operational definitions are detailed instructions and procedures for replicating experiments

What type of conditioning refers to promoting or encouraging certain behaviors?

General idea gathered from observation that predicts an outcome

T or F: Piaget worked with the development of children

Who experimented with rats to encourage certain behaviors?

T or F: a hypothesis is a testable prediction about an outcome

Person that believed that we attempt to make patterns in everything

T or F: Trait personalities look at persistent traits and characteristics of people

Theory that believes all behavior was inherited via evolutionary processes

What did Freud believe dictated our behavior?

T or F: The experimental group receives the placebo

Believed sensation and perception could affect ideas

Diagnosing, discussing, and treating mental illness is...

What school of thought replaced Freud's theories in the 1950's and 1960's?

T or F: Socrates believed we learned everything from experience

Encouraging acceptance of one's past, excitement and optimism about the future

T or F: Bacon believed fluids were animal spirits that dictated our behavior and movement

What field of psychology focuses on process of memory, learning, language, problem solving, etc?

T or F: Developmental is changing abilities from womb to tomb

T or F: Counseling helps people cope with crises and other lifestyle changes

How expressions of emotions and behavior vary across cultures

Choosing a random portion of people from a given population for an experiment

T or F: central tendency refers to the typical/central value for probability distribution

T or F: Humanism claims love and social acceptance were the primary drivers of behavior

T or F: the experimental group receives the treatment

T or F: Freud believed that primitive desires may unconsciously drive us to behave the way we do

The study of behavior and mental processes is:

Industrial-organizational does all of the following EXCEPT:

Statistical term that measures how strong a relationship is between two variables

Internal and subjective experiences

Who conditioned little Albert to fear furry animals and objects by making a loud noise each time one was present?

A study that attempts to discover if one factor causes another

T or F: Psychology is what organisms do

First female Ph. D

Statistics from which an educated guess is made about the data

Observational study in which data is gathered for the same subjects repeatedly over a period of time

Which branch of psychology focuses on the methods of learning and teaching?

Figures who connected the mind and body

What did the theory of evolution believe gave humans an advantage for survival?

All of the following are characteristics of a scatterplot except

T or F: Dorothea Dix started the first mental asylums in the U.S.

Observational study that analyzes data from a population, or a representative subset, at a specific point in time

Name one psychologist who advocated the new humanism field of psychology

T or F: Pavlov conditioned dogs to drool at the sound of a bell by feeding them after ringing the bell

Which person is NOT a major figure in behaviorism

Which of the following is NOT a branch of contemporary psychology?

The study of a individual person or group in hopes of discovering a universal truth

Name of the first theory of psychology that believed the human mind worked in certain ways for all people

How unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior and uses that info to treat psychological disorders

Who came up with the theory that all behavior was inherited via evolutionary processes

T or F: sensations is the body receiving signals and stimuli

T or F: Experiments and observation in humans and animals is Developmental Psychology

Frequency distribution with a rightward skew due to its long tail on the positive direction on a number line

T or F: Anonymous questionnaires are surveys

T or F: negative skew is a frequency distribution with a leftward skew

Measurement of abilities, attitudes, and traits of human beings

T or F: Operant conditioning refers to training someone/something to anticipate an event after a stimulus

T or F: Unhindered observations of the natural environment is called naturalistic observation

Cognitive Psychology focuses on all of the following EXCEPT

All of the following are keys to a valid experiment EXCEPT

Who were the other two men that helped Wundt study and later started schools?

Statistics in their base form are

What did Freud believe dictated our behavior?

Which thinker believed we were born as "blank slates," and could be molded into anything?

T or F: Randomly distributing a portion of the population into experimental groups to avoid bias is random assignment

T or F: The main problem with Wundt's theory is different perceptions

Biological psychology...

All of the following are basic rules that protect participants EXCEPT

Who came up with the theory of evolution?