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Part 1 Psychlogy Final Sem 1
Part 1 Psychlogy Final Sem 1
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Introduction, Psychological Perspectives, Research (Ethics, Experimental, Descriptive)
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What are two exceptions to Confidentiality?
risks and self-hate
hallucinations and insomnia
Ongoing abuse and self-harm
Deception and Debrief
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What question does the description goal address?
How much do you need to test?
What is the hypothesis?
What are the specific details?
Why does this happen?
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What is the ethical guidline of Voluntary Participation?
Ability to withdraw at any time
The withhold information from the participants
Ability to choose which field of psychology you go into
to have only animal subjects in your experiment
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A placebo is:
A sugar snack
A sugar pill
An alcoholic pill
Random
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What's an example of Participant Bias?
The experimenter tells Mary that she's supposed to steal for the experiment
Harry doesn't know his part of a study so he steals another guy's watch
Josh thinks the experimenter is mean so he purposely messes up the study
Mary will stop herself from stealing since she knows she's part of a study
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What is the concept of Deception and Debrief?
Explaining any pain that the participant might undergo
Not telling participant the purpose of the study until after the experiment
Deceiving the participant, even after the study is over
Deceiving the family of the participant so they don't know about it
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What is the independant variable? A researcher changes the color of the room to see its effects on people's mood
The color of the room
The size of the room
A person's mood
The researcher
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What is Freudian Slip?
You fall and hurt your head, causing Wernicke's Aphasia
You fall and hurt your head, causing Broca's Aphasia
You have subconscious desires that you express
You say something different from what you meant due to your subconscious
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What does the Structuralism school of psychology focus on?
Freudian slips
the theory of evolution
subconscious memories, thoughts, or desires
The basic building blocks of the mind
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Which psychological perspective looks at social interactions and cultural determinants of behavior?
Sociocultural
Behavioral
Biopsychosocial
Humanistic
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Which School of Psychology investigates the function of mental processes and adapting to the environment?
Psychoanalytical
Functionalism
Strucuralism
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In experiments, researchers measure the ____ variables
independent
extraneous
feature
dependent
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Basic and Applied research are:
All of the above
None of the above
Interact with one another
mutually exclusive
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What are two difficulties with Naturalistic Observation?
Time consuming and Lack of control
Too slow and Too wild
It's not accurate and It's self-reported
None of the Above
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What does the Psychodynamic perspective look at?
The gears in the brain
Positive emotions, traits, and lives
Childhood experiences and unconscious dynamics
Observable behavior
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What is sample bias?
Having too few participants in a study
Having the bacteria samples mixed up causing mistaken results
Not having enough variety of population representatives amongst the groups
Having too much variety of populations or races
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Which is NOT a solution for participant bias?
Double-blind
Deception
Anonymously
Debrief
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What is Replication (regarding research)?
Having the same exact experiment at the same time
The ability to copy the experiment/circumstances
The ability to clone the subject of the experiment
Repeating yourself to the participants of the experiment
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Which is NOT a research method?
Biological
Experimental
Descriptive
Coreligionist
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Why is a control group essential to an experiment?
To include extra participants in the study since many people want to join
So the experimenter doesn't mix up the treatments
So the participants don't feel they've been treated unfairly
So you can compare the behavior of a treated and untreated participant
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Which is NOT a field in psychology?
Happiness
Education
Industrial
Forensics
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Which is not a type of psychological research?
Emotional
Experimental
Correlational
Biological
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Which bias causes the participants to influence their behavior or mental processes?
Anonymous Bias
Participant Bias
Sample Bias
Ethnocentrism
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Why is it so important to have random assignment and representative sampling (as a solution for Sample Bias)?
So no participants are put with someone he knows
So the experiment accurately represents the entire population
So different ethnicities or races don't get offended
So that any scientists from any ethnicity accepts the results
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What does the Cognitive perspective focus on?
Social interaction
Positive emotions, traits, and improving lives
encoding, storage, and retrieval
How the emotions work
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What are the 4 goals of Psychology?
Scientific Study, Mental, Behavioral, and Observable
Descriptive, Explanatory, Prediction, and Change
Observation, Experiments, Interaction, and Change
The What, Why, When, and How
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What is the control group in an experiment?
The group that receives both treatments
The group that is confined in a room during the experiment
The group that receives no treatment
The interfering variable
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Which school of Psychology focuses on the unconscious?
Structuralism
Psychoanalytical
Functionalism
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Which is a component of descriptive research?
Naturalistic Observation
Surveys
All of the Above
Case Studies
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Who is the major proponent of the behavioral perspective?
E.F. Hutton
J.K. Rowling
D.J. Trump
B.F. Skinner
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What are the two limitations with Structuralism?
It's too subjective and limiting
It doesn't work if there's food involved or if the person is an alcoholic
It doesn't look at childhood and doesn't apply to animals
It doesn't apply to women or old people
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What is Meta-Analysis?
amassing as much information as possible in a short amount of time
Analyzing someone's life story
Analyzing results of multiple experiments
Doing an experiment with multiple people
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Which is NOT a key concept in the definition of psychology?
Friendliness
Scientific study
Behaviors
mental processes
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Experimental research determines cause and effect.
True
False
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Which psychological perspective focuses on the adaptation and evolution of mental processes?
Cognitive
Biopsychosocial
Sociocultural
Evolutionary
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What is the biopsychosocial perspective?
looks at the nervous system and how it connects to the circulatory system
Looks at emotional responses and physical stimuli
Looking at a combination of genetic, mental, and social factors
Combines the brain and spinal cord fucntions
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What issues is the behavioral perspective best used to deal with?
Addiction and Association
alcoholism and phobias
Aphasia and blindness
fears and friends
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What does the Behavioral perspective look at?
adaptation of the human mind
Observable behavior
Positive growth mindset
Social, religion, and class of a person
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Critical thinking includes:
Comparing, Analyzing, and Synthesizing
Comparing, Studying, and Expressing
Synthesizing, Glancing, and Thinking
Helping, Kindness, and Emotions
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What is the dependent variable? A researcher want to see how alcohol use influences reaction times while driving
The driver
The researcher
Alcohol use
Reaction time while driving
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A participant's agreement to take part in a study after being told what to expect is known as:
Confidentiality
Informed Consent
Participant Bias
Comparative Psychology
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Psychological research _______ new theories
none of the above
both of the above
creates
challenges
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What is a Case-Study?
A combination of multiple studies
Studying one case at a time before making an analysis
A participant's background check before an experiment
An in-depth study of one individual and their background
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What is Operational Definition?
Being specific in an experiment
Defining all your terms for other scientists
Operating with simpler circumstances
Analyzing other cases
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Which is NOT a type of correlation?
Negative
Positive
Zero
Infinite
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Applied research is done in a lab.
False
True
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What is experimenter bias?
the experimenter can influence the results because of a bias
The experimenter randomly assigns the participants
The experimenter purposely messes up the study
The participants influence the experimenter to write different results
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What is an example of ethnocentrism?
Burning an American flag as part of an experiment
Excluding your siblings from your experiment
Assuming that what applies to Hispanics applies to everyone
Thinking the Chinese are not fit for being participants
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A single-blind study is when the experimenter knows who gets what treatment, but the participants don't know.
True
False
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What are two drawbacks to Surveys?
Takes too long and doesn't explain effects
Too little data and Too many participants
Self-reported and doesn't explain causes
Inaccurate and unfavorable with participants
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What does the Humanistic perspective focus on?
the evolution of the Human mind
Storage and memory
A combination of Genetics, Mental, and social factors
Self-actualization, positive emotions, positive traits
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What does the goal of Change address?
We don't want positive outcomes
How can we make the experiment less specific?
We don't want a bias
We don't want negative outcomes
