Psychology Chapter 1 Exam Review

Researcher wants to see if people's need for personal space is different in Greece vs. the USA

Which statement about the coefficient of correlation is true?

Perspective that emphasizes how the environment and experience affect a person's actions...

A Dr. that works with students and parents to improve students' performance is likely a...

A researcher wants to know about alcohol consumption among college juniors in the USA-Step 1 is-

A statement that attempts to predict or to account for a set of phenomena is called a(n)...

Does feeling nervous make people eat chocolate? The amount of chocolate eaten is...

The principle of falsifiability means that...

Perspective- studies the impact of societal norms and values on human decision making behavior.

Procedure for combining and analyzing data from many studies to determine variance

Research methods that depict behavior but are not necessarily causal explanations...

Movement in psych. the emphasizes free will, personal growth, & achievement of human potential

Participants in studies must do so voluntarily and be given enough info. to make a decision...

Comparison condition in which participants NOT exposed to same treatment as experimental cond.

Experiment in which neither experimenter or participants know who is in the experimental group

The strongest relationship, as indicated by these correlation coefficients is...

When the experimenter inadvertently causes the participants to change their behavior

A psychological test is valid if it...

What is the best example of "argument by anecdote"?

An organized system of assumptions and principles that explains a certain set of phenomena...

Allows the experimenter to draw conclusions about cause and effect...

Inferential statistics...

What is the purpose of an operational definition?

Used to gather information about individuals' attitudes and experiences...

Psychologists who conduct research to seek knowledge for its own sake...

One would use a case study in all of the following EXCEPT...

A psychological test is standardized if...

To not interfere with behavior of infants in a study a researcher observes through a window...

Which best represents a negative correlation?

Perspective that emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with thoughts/feelings/actions

Inactive substance or fake treatment that is used as a control in an experiment

According to psychodynamic perspective, human behavior is understood by...

Established standards of performance on psychological tests are referred to as

Study: If eating sweets before bedtime makes children active. Sweets before bedtime are the...

Critical thinking may be defined as...

Averaging the number of hours a child spends playing with peers on the playground during recess

Which is an example of a positive correlation?

Annual income and dental problems needing care...

Does a cup of hot milk at night help people relax and fall asleep quickly? In this study....

Procedure for assigning people to experimental and control groups, using probability...

According to the APA, researchers relying on human participants MUST DO ALL EXCEPT...

A research study that looks for a consistent relationship between 2 variables...

How is pseudoscience different from psychology?