psych chapter 1
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| Unlike experiments, surveys show: | show 🗑
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| Why might there be some ethical concerns about naturalistic observation? | show 🗑
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| show | Archival research.
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| show | Any of the above.
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| To say that a result is significant is to say that it is: | show 🗑
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| show | You are unfamiliar with the subject.
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| Why should scientists do experiments? | show 🗑
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| show | They apply to too many situations.
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| show | Falsify ideas.
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| Control is problematic because it limits the: | show 🗑
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| show | Scientists attempt to show that we do not understand things.
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| Scientists call their explanations: | show 🗑
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| How many hypotheses can be derived from a single theory? | show 🗑
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| How many hypotheses must be tested before a theory can be considered proven? | show 🗑
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| show | They are not testable.
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| show | Supernatural explanations.
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| What is wrong with intuition as a way of knowing. | show 🗑
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| show | Explain why something occurred.
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| show | Prediction.
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| show | culture
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| If the correlation between the physical weight and reading ability of children is +0.85, this would indicate that | show 🗑
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| What is most likely to inhibit critical thinking? | show 🗑
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| show | correlational measures.
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| show | illusory correlations.
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| On a 10-item test, three students in Professor Hsin’s advanced chemistry seminar received scores of 2, 5, and 8, respectively. For this distribution of test scores, the standard deviation is equal to the square root of | show 🗑
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| show | perceiving order in random events.
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| show | control.
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| The study of psychology is potentially dangerous because | show 🗑
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| show | ethics of placing the well-being of humans above that of animals.
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| show | ensure that research participants give informed consent before participating in the research.
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| The scientific attitude of humility is most likely to be undermined by | show 🗑
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| Some animal protection organizations want to replace the use of animals in research involving ________ with research involving ________. | show 🗑
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| show | an operational definition.
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| After carefully studying how three single parents dealt with the loss of their jobs, Dr. Phong began to overestimate the national rate of unemployment. In this instance, Dr. Phong should be warned that ________ may be misleading. | show 🗑
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| show | the mean is less than the mode and less than the median.
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| show | observing representative samples.
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| Which of the following might be a functionalist theory? | show 🗑
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| Some don't drink alchohol, others consume three beers. They are then placed behind the wheel of a driving simulator and their actions monitored. This is done to test the hypothesis that driving skill is reduced by alchohol. This study is an example of: | show 🗑
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| Imagine that you have entered the following distribution of scores into the program: 7, 9, 6, 3, 7, 8, 4, 10, 7, 9. The mean of this distribution of scores would be changed the most if a score of ________ was removed from the data set. | show 🗑
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| show | control.
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| show | –0.12
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| show | the survey
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| show | independent variables.
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| show | +0.50
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| University of Texas students were fitted with belt-worn tape recorders for up to four days so that researchers could sample their daily activities. The researchers employed a scientific method known as | show 🗑
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| show | note the range and size of the scale values.
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| Six of the children in Mr. Myer's class were born on exactly the same day. This strikes him as astonishing and improbable. In this instance, he should be reminded that | show 🗑
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| show | +0.60
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| To provide a baseline against which they can evaluate the effects of a specific treatment, experimenters make use of a(n) | show 🗑
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| show | skewed.
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| Which technique involves repeating the essence of an earlier research study with different participants and in different circumstances? | show 🗑
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| Akira dreamed that a handsome young man she had met the previous day asked her for a date. When he actually did call for a date several days later, Akira concluded that dreams accurately predict future events. Her belief best illustrates | show 🗑
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| show | naturalistic observation.
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| Hypotheses are best described as | show 🗑
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| Replication of a research study is most likely to be facilitated by | show 🗑
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| Researchers use experiments rather than other research methods in order to distinguish between | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is a hypothesis that might be developed by a functionalist? | show 🗑
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| show | Having been rewarded for studying, people will study more.
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| Psychologists study animals because | show 🗑
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| show | mean
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| A researcher would be most likely to discover a positive correlation between | show 🗑
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| To better understand how brain malfunctions influence behavior, Dr. Mosher extensively and carefully observes and questions two stroke victims. Which research method is Dr. Mosher using? | show 🗑
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| show | the median is greater than the mean and less than the mode.
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| Two students in an art class are at least 20 years older than the others. Which measure of variation of class members' ages is most affected by the ages of these two students? | show 🗑
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| Psychological differences between the genders are | show 🗑
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| show | hindsight bias.
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| show | the amount of alcohol consumed.
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| To assess reactions to a proposed tuition hike at her school, Ariana sent a survey to every fifteenth person in the registrar's alphabetical listing of all currently enrolled students. Ariana is ensuring that her survey results are accurate by using | show 🗑
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| As the size of a representative sample increases, the ________ of that sample is most likely to decrease. | show 🗑
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| show | experiments
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| show | the well-being of cats than the well-being of mice.
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| To learn about the TV viewing habits of all the children attending Oakbridge School, Professor DeVries randomly selected and interviewed 50 of the school's students. In this instance, all the children attending the school are considered to be a(n) | show 🗑
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| The percentage of students whose average grades fall into various performance levels could be represented on a | show 🗑
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| show | 1
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| show | Naturalistic observation of interest to counseling psychologists.
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| show | People will notice many elements of things presented to them.
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| show | Jordan.
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| show | sample; population
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| In a study of the effects of drinking alcohol, some participants drank a nonalcoholic beverage that actually smelled and tasted like alcohol. This nonalcoholic drink was a | show 🗑
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| show | hindsight bias.
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| show | control
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| show | mode
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| Professor O'Brian has used correlational evidence to reach a potentially incorrect conclusion about a cause-effect relationship. Questioning the validity of drawing this conclusion from the evidence best illustrates | show 🗑
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| show | hindsight bias.
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| show | experimental
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| A statement describing how a researcher manipulates an independent variable is known as a(n) | show 🗑
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| show | range
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| The placebo effect best illustrates the impact of ________ on feelings and behaviors. | show 🗑
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| The standard deviation is the square root of the average squared deviation of scores from the | show 🗑
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| In a single day, 45 babies were born in hospital X, 65 babies in hospital Y, and 25 babies in hospital Z. At which hospital is there the greatest probability that more than 60 percent of the babies are of the same sex? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is most useful for helping survey researchers avoid false generalizations? | show 🗑
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| To assess the influence of self-esteem on interpersonal attraction, researchers either insulted or complimented students about their physical appearance just before they went on a blind date. In this research, the dependent variable was | show 🗑
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| show | People behave in ways that helps them get things they need or want.
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| show | Naturalistic observation of interest to counseling psychologists.
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| Which research method provides the best way of assessing whether cigarette smoking boosts mental alertness? | show 🗑
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| show | culture.
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| Rodesia insists that Dr. Phillip's theory of aggression be checked against observable evidence. She is demonstrating the scientific attitude of | show 🗑
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| show | creating a control group.
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| Studying people of all races and cultures is most helpful for | show 🗑
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| show | correlational measures.
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| Which research method assesses how well one variable predicts another without specifying a cause and effect relationship between the variables? | show 🗑
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| show | mean.
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| Because she had a serious traffic accident on Friday the 13th of last month, Felicia is convinced that all Friday the 13ths will bring bad luck. Felicia's belief best illustrates | show 🗑
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| When provided with the unscrambled solutions to anagrams, people underestimate the difficulty of solving the anagrams. This best illustrates | show 🗑
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| show | assuming that association proves causation.
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| show | experiments
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| A correlation coefficient is a statistical measure of the | show 🗑
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| show | operational definition.
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| Students are watched in a bar. How much they drink and how much they smile is recorded. The hypothesis being tested is that the amount of alcohol consumed will be related to the number of times that they smile in order to learn while people smile. | show 🗑
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| To ensure that the participants' and researchers' expectations do not influence the outcome of an experiment, the psychologist should | show 🗑
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