Intro Psychology Unit 1 Review: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

Question 1

What is the first step of conducting research?

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Forming a Question

Question 2

Modern psychiatrist who influenced the biopsychosocial approach

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George Engel

Question 3

When people are asked to respond to a series of questions about a particular subject

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Survey

Question 4

Developmental psychologists study the changes that occur throughout a person’s lifespan.

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True

Question 5

In experiments, factors that can change or vary

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Variables

Question 6

The whole group you want to study or describe

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Target population

Question 7

How do psychologists help their patients control feelings of anxiety?

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Teach them how to manage anxiety

Question 8

Subgroups in the population are represented proportionally in the sample

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Stratified Sample

Question 9

The factor that is being measured and that may change in response to manipulations

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Dependent variable (DV)

Question 10

Select a group of participants & observe them over a period of time to see the ways they change

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Longitudinal Studies

Question 11

When participants do not know whether they are in the experimental group or the control group

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Single blind study

Question 12

School psychologists evaluate students for placement in special ed classes & programs

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True

Question 13

Areas studied by sociocultural theorists

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economic status andgender

Question 14

School of psychology that looks at the basic elements of conscious experience

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structuralism

Question 15

Select a sample that includes people of different ages to compare such as behavior

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Cross Sectional

Question 16

A substance or treatment that has no effect apart from a person's belief in it

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Placebo

Question 17

Outlined the laws of associationism, which are still at the heart of learning theory

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Aristotle

Question 18

What is the goal of a psychological theory?

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predicting behavior or mental processes

Question 19

According to cognitive psychologists, what influences people's behavior?

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perceptions and thoughts

Question 20

Only part of the target population

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Sample

Question 21

School of psych that describes experience as a whole, rather than breaking it down into parts

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Gestalt psychology

Question 22

Members of this group receive the treatment in an experiment

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Experimental group

Question 23

How does a psychiatrist and a psychologist differ?

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Psychiatrist can prescribe medicine

Question 24

Action that can be observed or measured

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behavior

Question 25

For findings to be confirmed, the study must be ______ or repeated

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Replicated

Question 26

Health psychologists work with patients who are struggling with the effects of a disability.

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False- Rehabilitation

Question 27

School of psychology that emphasizes the effects of experience on behavior

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learning perspective

Question 28

Founder of the school of behaviorism

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John B. Watson

Question 29

Method researchers use to answer questions about cause and effect

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Experiment

Question 30

An educated guess

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Hypothesis

Question 31

Founded psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud

Question 32

Roots of the biological perspective

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associationism

Question 33

Contemporary school of psychology that focuses on consciousness and self-fulfillment

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humanistic perspective

Question 34

School of psych that studies the influence of nervous system, genetic factors on our behavior

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biological perspective

Question 35

The study of behavior in a controlled situation

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Laboratory-Observation

Question 36

Wrote the first modern psychology textbook

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William James

Question 37

Members of this group do not receive the treatment in an experiment

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Control group

Question 38

Counseling psychologists tend not to treat patients with serious psychological difficulties.

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True

Question 39

Which of the following is the best definition of the science of psychology?

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scientific study of behavior and mental processes

Question 40

Study of behavior in naturally occurring situations w/out manipulation by the experimenter

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Naturalistic-Observation

Question 41

Which field of psychology has the largest number of psychologists?

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Clinical

Question 42

Contemporary school of psychology interested in information processing

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cognitive perspective

Question 43

Founded structuralism

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Wilhelm Wundt

Question 44

When an experiment uses control groups as well as experimental groups it is called a

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Controlled experiment

Question 45

Standards for proper and responsible behavior

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Ethics

Question 46

Contemporary school of psychology influenced by Charles Darwin

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evolutionary perspective

Question 47

What are some examples of cognitive activities?

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Dreaming, thinking, perceiving

Question 48

The last step of conducting research?

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Draw conclusions/Develop new questions

Question 49

Which field of psychology has the largest number of people?

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Clinical

Question 50

How did the sociocultural perspective broaden psychology?

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included different ethnicities, genders, cultures & economic

Question 51

When individuals are selected by chance from the target population

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Random Sample

Question 52

Which of the following research methods are widely used by psychologists?

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surveys and experiments

Question 53

Philosopher who stressed the importance of introspection

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Aristotle

Question 54

Intelligence tests, aptitude tests, and personality tests are all examples of

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Testing Method

Question 55

An in depth investigation of an individual or a small group

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Case Study

Question 56

When both participants and experimenters are unaware of who receives the treatment

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Double Blind Study

Question 57

Measure of how closely one thing is related to another

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Correlation

Question 58

What are the main goals of psychology?

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to observe, describe,explain, predict, and control behavior

Question 59

Psychologist who introduced the concept of reinforcement

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B. F. Skinner

Question 60

Who wrote the first modern psychology textbook?

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William James

Question 61

The relationship between good grades and time spent study is an example of

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Positive correlation

Question 62

Who said "An unexamined life is not worth living?"

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Socrates

Question 63

A psychologist is a medical doctor, can treat psych problems & can prescribe medicine 4 clients

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False- psychiatrist

Question 64

What is one difference between a theory and a principle?

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Principles are laws, theories attempt to explain things

Intro Psychology Unit 1 Review: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

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Intro Psychology Unit 1 Review: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

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