Unit 1 Psychology

Question 1

What type of psychological research carefully regulated procedure where a researcher manipulates one or more variables?

Accepted Answer

Experimental Research

Question 2

What is the term for changes as a result of the manipulation of the independent variable (effect)?

Accepted Answer

Dependent Variable

Question 3

What type of psychological research tells us the relation between two variables?

Accepted Answer

Correlational Research

Question 4

Functionalism which focuses on the purposes of each part of the brain was developed by ______________.

Accepted Answer

William James

Question 5

Which of these is an attitude of psychological research?

Accepted Answer

Skepticism, Critical Thinking, Objectivity

Question 6

Structuralism which focuses on the basic elements of the brain was developed by ______________.

Accepted Answer

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 7

Which of the following is a type of descriptive research?

Accepted Answer

Interviews, Survey, Observations

Question 8

How many steps are there in the scientific method?

Accepted Answer

5

Question 9

What psychological approach focuses on the body, specifically the brain?

Accepted Answer

Biological

Question 10

What is the term for those who were exposed to the change the independent variable?

Accepted Answer

Experimental group

Question 11

What is it when the outcome is influenced when participants act the way they think the researcher wants them to?

Accepted Answer

Research participant bias

Question 12

What field of psychology is most often thought of when picturing psychology? (hint: Sigmund Freud and the couch)

Accepted Answer

Clinical Psychology

Question 13

What approach focuses on ideas such as adaptation, reproduction, and natural selection to explain specific behaviors?

Accepted Answer

Evolutionary

Question 14

What is it when experimenters expectations influence the outcome of the research?

Accepted Answer

Experimenter Bias

Question 15

Psychology has its roots/beginnings in _____________ and _________________.

Accepted Answer

Physiology, Biology

Question 16

How many approaches to psychology are there?

Accepted Answer

7

Question 17

Where in history are some of the earliest forms of psychological thinking

Accepted Answer

Greek Philosophy

Question 18

What is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes?

Accepted Answer

Psychology

Question 19

What is how much the experiment reflects real world issues its supposed to address?

Accepted Answer

External Validity

Question 20

What is the soundness of the conclusions researchers draw from an experiment?

Accepted Answer

Validity

Question 21

What is a broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempts to explain observations?

Accepted Answer

Theory

Question 22

What type of psychological research aims to describe a phenomena and provide basic definitions of it?

Accepted Answer

Descriptive Research

Question 23

What psychological approach focuses on the mental processes involved in knowing information?

Accepted Answer

Cognitive

Question 24

This is a __________________

Accepted Answer

No Correlation Chart

Question 25

What are behaviors?

Accepted Answer

Observable actions or responses to human behavior

Question 26

This is a __________________

Accepted Answer

Negative Correlation Chart

Question 27

What psychological approach focuses on peoples social and cultural environments and how they influence behavior?

Accepted Answer

Sociocultural

Question 28

What is an educated guess that derives logically from a theory?

Accepted Answer

Hypothesis

Question 29

A theory can generate many hypotheses and all can be tested.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

What psychological approach focuses on directly observable behavioral responses and the environmental determinants?

Accepted Answer

Behavioral

Question 31

What is the term for those treated same as experimental group, minus the change in the independent variable?

Accepted Answer

Coontrol group

Question 32

This is a __________________

Accepted Answer

Positive Correlation chart

Question 33

What are moral principles that govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity?

Accepted Answer

Ethics

Question 34

What is the term for a manipulated experimental factor, this is changed to see what the effects are (cause)?

Accepted Answer

Independent Variable

Question 35

What are mental processes?

Accepted Answer

Complex mental processes that are not directly observable

Question 36

The key step in evaluating a theory is_____________.

Accepted Answer

replication

Question 37

What is the degree to which changes in dependent variable genuinely come from manipulation of an independent variable?

Accepted Answer

Internal Validity

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