FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY TEST 1

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYCHOLOGY TEST 1

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Question 1: Social Psychology

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A subfield of psychology that studies the causes and consequences of interpersonal studies

Question 2: In a double-blind procedure,

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Neither the participants nor the researchers know who is in the experimental or control group Question 3: When sample averages, are _______ and the difference between them is _____, we can say the difference has statistical significance

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Reliable; large

Question 4: B.F. Skinner

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He was another behaviorist that believed in Pavlov's experiments and Watson's theories. He studied how behavior was learned according to circumstance

Question 5: Negative Correlation

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High on one thing and low on another

Question 6: William James

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He believes in the idea of functionalism. Functionalism is when you see how someone functions or adapts to new aspects in their environment

Question 7: Cognitive Psychology

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The scientific study of mental processes including perception, thought, memory, and experience

Question 8: Pschology is

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The scientific study of behavior and mental processes Question 9: Another name for a bell-shaped distribution, in which most scores fall near the middle and fewer scores fall at each extreme, is a

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Normal curve

Question 10: Behaviorism

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An approach that advocates that psychologists restrict themselves to the scientific study objectively observable behavior

Question 11: Naturalistic Observation

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Observing and recording the behavior of animals in the wild and recording self-seating patterns

Question 12: Validity

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The goodness with which a concrete event defines a property

Question 13: You wish to survey a group of people who truly present the country's adult population. Therefore, you need to ensure that you question a _______ sample of the population

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Representative

Question 14: Cultural Psychology

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Study of how cultures reflect and shape the psychological processes of their members

Question 15: Theory-based predictions are called

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Hypothesis Question 16: Psycologists use the _____ ______ to construct theories that organize summarize and simplify observations

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Scientific method

Question 17: Wilhelm Wundt

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He believes in the idea of structuralism. Structuralism is when you analyze the brain by breaking it down to its main components

Question 18: Plato

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He believes in the philosophical view that certain kinds of knowledge are innate and inborn (nativism/nature)

Question 19: Research observations

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Research requires administer test of self-esteem and depression Question 20: A researcher wants to determine whether noise level affects workers' blood pressure. In one group, she varies the level of noise in the environment and records participants' blood pressure. In this experiment, the level of noise is the

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Independent variable

Question 21: A ______ provides a visual representation of the direction and the strength of a relationship between two variables

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Scatterplot Question 22: How can critical thinking help you evaluate claims in the media, even if you're not a scientific expert on the issue?

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In evaluating a claim in the media, look for any signs of empirical evidence, preferably from several studies

Question 23: Random Sampling

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Each member has an equal chance of being included in a random sample (unbiased)

Question 24: Scientific Method

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Identify the problem, Design the study, Conduct the study, Analyze the data, Communicate the results

Question 25: Debriefing

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A verbal description of a study describing its nature and purpose if the participant is deceived

Question 26: Intuition is

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An effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought as contrasted with explicit, conscious reasoning

Question 27: Nature works on

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What nature endows

Question 28: Random assignment

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Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by random assignment, minimizing pre-existing differences between two groups