Exam 1

A  David Wechsler

B  Alfred Binet

C  Charles Spearman

D  Lewis Terman

A  He founded the American Psychological Association in 1892.

B  He founded the first laboratory of psychology in American at Johns Hopkins University in 1883.

C  He published the first American textbook of psychology, The Principles of Psychology, in 1890.

D  In 1887 he created the first journal of psychology in America, The American Journal of Psychology.

A  Gestalt psychology

B  individual differences psychology

C  structuralism

D  cognitive psychology

A  He was the first to suggest that there might be physical causes to psychological disorders, shifting the field away from its previous roots in demonology.

B  He was the first to travel outside of his own country to “rally” other psychologists to the cause of working together to establish a new scientific discipline.

C  He founded and was elected the first president of the American Psychological Association.

D  He promoted the idea that psychology could be studied scientifically and provided classes, textbooks, and a laboratory for training students.

A  Thomas Reid

B  William James

C  Sigmund Freud

D  Immanuel Kant

A  the nature-nurture model

B  the scientist-practitioner model

C  the scientist-scholar model

D  the scholar-practitioner model

A  fear response

B  person’s description of anxiety

C  personality trait

D  score on an anxiety questionnaire

A  to help ensure that participant characteristics don’t become confounding variables

B  it is a required component of all psychology studies

C  to make sure that participants follow the rules of the study

D  to give the experimenter control so that he/she can find significant results

A  dependent variables

B  independent variables

C  confounding variables

D  correlational variables

A  method of studying (spaced or cramming)

B  exam performance

C  number of hours studied

D  students

A  dependent, correlational

B  dependent, independent

C  independent, dependent

D  independent, correlational

A  pseudoscientific claim

B  type I error

C  type II error

D  egregious error

A  tend to mimic common sense understandings of the world

B  are fairly limited

C  describe, explain, and predict the world in empirically-testable ways

D  are unbiased explanations of the natural world

A  Biological factors are the most important to understanding human psychology.

B  Social factors are the most important to understanding human psychology.

C  Understanding the world requires thinking about a phenomenon at different levels (e.g., biological, psychological, cultural).

D  In order to understand the world, we should reduce natural phenomenon to their smallest components (e.g. atoms or neurons).

A  Do people’s judgments of coffee change when it is described as being a “drug”?

B  Is coffee consumption associated with living longer?

C  Does drinking coffee increase alertness?

D  Does coffee taste good?

A  hypotheses

B  beliefs about the world

C  information about the world

D  proof

A  Confidentiality

B  Anonymity

C  Informed consent

D  Privacy

A  depends on whether or not any experimentation is involved

B  must be determined by a review board established by the sponsoring institution

C  can be determined by examining the pertinent legal documents

D  depends on the researcher’s definition of harm

A  deception; debriefed

B  debriefings; deceived

C  confidentiality; informed

D  informed consent; confided in

A  Privacy notice

B  Forced agreement

C  Confidential security

D  Informed consent