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PSYC 1001 Mock Midterm 1
PSYC 1001 Mock Midterm 1
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43. An abstract is
d. Subjecting data to analysis
c. A hint at what a study is about
b. A summary of a hypothesis
a. A clear concise summary of research projects
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39. A person who is asked to fill out a questionnaire, do an interview, or take a personality test it’s called
d. Self-report
a. Quantitaive observation
b. Meta-analysis
c. Sample participation
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15. Meta-analysis is
c. Studying a person or animal from afar
b. A study done with many people and many psychologists
d. Doing a country-wide study
a. Gathering others’ research and incorporating it to make one study
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Which two disciplines are considered the intellectual parents of psychology?
a. Physiology and Philosophy
b. Psychiatry and Philosophy
c. Physiology and Phrenology
d. Phrenology and Psychiatry
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47. Which original theorist put emphasis on the unconscious?
a. Skinner
d. Freud
c. Rogers
b. Watson
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29. Read photo
b. The time it takes for students to finish
d. The difficulty of the test
a. The students answers
c. The noise level in the classrooms
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50. A testable hypothesis should
a. Be formulated precisely, the variables used should be clearly defined
d. Be complicated and elaborate
c. Be approved by 4 different researchers
b. Be reported to a psychology journal for approval
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4. A disadvantage of the correlational approach is…
It does not help with predictability
c. The correlation coefficient can be confusing
a. It does not broaden the scope of what psychologists can study
b. Correlation does not imply causation
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44. Read photo
b. Lab observation
a. Survey
d. Psychological test
c. Naturalistic observation
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12. Reactivity is when
c. Multiple participants react at each other during a study
d. A participant refuses to do the study
a. A participant’s behavior is altered by the presence of the observer
b. A participant reacts very strongly to a situation
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38. Is Psychology a science? Choose the best answer.
c. No, it is a pseudoscience because there are not calculations involved
c. Yes, because it arose from philosophical roots which is also a science..
a. No, because it focuses too much on things we cannot actually observe...
b. Yes, because it uses empiricism; ...
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36. Read photo
b. +2.5
d. -0.6
c. 0
a. +1
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41. Read photo
d. A study plan
b. A research idea
c. A hypothesis
a. A theory
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37. Read photo
b. Nonexistent; moderate
d. Unrelated; no
c. Negative; no
a. Negative; a huge
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30. Read Photo
a. Control
c. Experimental
d. Outlier
b. Placebo
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49. Which branch of psychology works with diagnosis of psychological disorders?
c. Social
a. Counseling
d. Behaviourism
b. Clinical
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26. To understand what the study is about & make predictions concerning the outcome of the study, you must first
b. Read previous studies of the same topic
a. Create the theory concerning what the research will find
d. Pick the members of the sampling group
c. Design a hypothesis about the relationship between 2 or more variables
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3. Psychologists who study evolutionary psychology study
a. The truth behind the theory of evolution
Why species have changed through the generations
c. Changes in physical growth over time
b. How species change over time
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11. Read photo
Isn't an exact science
Is purely subjective
Is purely objective so they cannot both be right
Is multidimensional
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20. Read photo
b. Behavioural
c. Social
d. Experimental
a. Cognitive
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14. The most accurate definition of animism is the belief that
b. Animals, people, and inanimate objects are inhabited by spirits
a. All animal’s and people’s brains work in the exact same way
c. People are way more complex than animals or inanimate objects
d. Spirits do not exist in animals, people, or inanimate objects
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6. Which original theorist established the first formal laboratory for research in psychology?
c. Freud
Watson
b. Skinner
a. Wundt
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48. What is essential in naturalistic observation?
d. There must be more than 2 observers
b. Making sure the observer does not directly intervene with the subjects
c. Animals must be involved in naturalistic observation
a. Assuring that the subjects are behaving as the psychologist hoped
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40. Read photo
b. Double blind procedure
a. Meta-analysis procedure
c. Clueless procedure
d. Abstract procedure
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22. Read picture
d. He is not wokring in any area of psychology
a. Applied
b. Research
c. Experimental
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23. If you had to most accurately generalize behaviourism into a few words it would be
d. Freud is the original theorist of behaviourism
a. It is observational
b. It requires the study of consciousness
c. It is solely in the unconscious
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35. Why is random assignment helpful in an experiment?
The person conducting the research doesnt know who the participants are
d. Both a and b
b. Easier to generalize the results to a larger population
a. It helps eliminate possible sources of bias
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7. What were the first two major schools of thought?
b. Humanistic and Functionalism
Structuralism and Functionalism
c. Psychoanalytic and Behaviourist
a. Structuralism and Behaviorist
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27. A system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations is the
b. Theory
a. Variable
c. Law
d. Hypothesis
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28. In analyzing research, statistics are used to
c. Help deisgn the test
d. Inform the participants of what is required from them
b. Analyze the final results of the study
a. Build a theory
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24. Read picture
a. Behaviourism; Structuralism
b. Introspection; Functionalism
d. The unconscious; Functionalism
c. Introspection; Structuralism
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16. Read picture
d. Test
b. Case Study
c. Survey
a. Experiment
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10. Experimental research differs from descriptive research in that
c. Descriptive research is used only when reading another person's work
a. Both experimental and descriptive research controls the variables...
b. Experimental research looks at the variables in the way they ineract..
d. Experimental research controls variables, descriptive research..
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5. Kevin has faced a crisis within his company. He is losing a lot of good employees. He would call a psychologist in
c. Cognitive
Health
b. Educational
a. Industrial/Organization
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32. An experimental group and control group at to be the same
d. Except for the number of participants, experimental should have more
b. Except for the treatment they receive
c. Except for the gender of the people
a. At all times
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34. Read photo
c. Educational
d. Behavioural
a. Industrial/organizational
b. Cognitive
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18. Read picture
b. Personality
a. Social
d. Developmental
c. Health
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2. The quality of a study depends on
c. Reliability and validity
b. Credibility and validity
Reliability and credibility
a. Credibility and researchability
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19. Dualism held the belief that
b. The mind will not function without the body
d. The mind and body are 2 separate categories (2 distinct entities)
a. The mind and body are in the same category (1 distinct entity)
c. The body is more important than the mind
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17. Read Picture
c. Give him more food in the morning so that he is not hungry
d. Distract him as often as you can, so he never thinks about eating...
a. To impose a punishment every time Dave eats your homework....
b. Use reverse psychology& reward Dave every time he eats your homework.
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31. Read photo
a. Perceptions are empirical
b. Hannah has watched many scary movies before
d. Reactions to stimuli are subjective and different for everyone
c. Processing stimuli is passive so there is no reason for the movie...
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25. Read photo
a. Become a musician to see how people react to their music
c. Conduct interviews
d. Design a way to measure and describe the results
b. Gather women & men in their twenties/fifties & watch them react to music
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13. Being a psychiatrist is different than being a clinical psychologist because psychiatrists
a. Can prescribe medication
c. Get paid less
d. Spend less time in school
b. Don’t deal with patients that have mental disorders
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21. Psychology is considered a science because it employs
c. Materialism
d. Dualism
a. Rationalism
b. Empiricism
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45. Which research area of psychology deals with the biological basis of behaviour?
a. Organizational
b. Health
c. Physiological
d. Biometrical
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46. Read photo
d. Mode and median
c. Mean and mode
a. Median and mean
b. Median and mode
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33. Read photo
a. Independent variables
b. Dependent variables
d. Extraneous variables
c. Confounding variables
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8. Freud's theories were controversial because he
Both b and c
b. Believed sex controlled people’s actions
a. Believed people's actions were controlled solely by their environment
c. Believed we had an unconscious
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42. The area of psychology that studies how people acquire knowledge is
d. Clinical Psychology
c. Cognitive Psychology
a. Social Psychology
b. Personality Psychology
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9. Behaviourism is based on the idea that scientific psychology should only study behaviour that is
a. Radical/out of the norm
b. Hidden
c. Observable
Confusing
