Exam 1

A  Alfred Binet

B  David Wechsler

C  Lewis Terman

D  Charles Spearman

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

B  He founded the American Psychological Association in 1892.

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

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

A  individual differences psychology

B  Gestalt psychology

C  cognitive psychology

D  structuralism

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

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

A  Thomas Reid

B  Immanuel Kant

C  Sigmund Freud

D  William James

A  the scholar-practitioner model

B  the scientist-scholar model

C  the scientist-practitioner model

D  the nature-nurture model

A  personality trait

B  fear response

C  person’s description of anxiety

D  score on an anxiety questionnaire

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

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

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

D  it is a required component of all psychology studies

A  confounding variables

B  independent variables

C  correlational variables

D  dependent variables

A  exam performance

B  method of studying (spaced or cramming)

C  number of hours studied

D  students

A  dependent, independent

B  independent, correlational

C  independent, dependent

D  dependent, correlational

A  egregious error

B  pseudoscientific claim

C  type I error

D  type II error

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

B  tend to mimic common sense understandings of the world

C  are unbiased explanations of the natural world

D  are fairly limited

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

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

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

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

A  Does drinking coffee increase alertness?

B  Does coffee taste good?

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

D  Is coffee consumption associated with living longer?

A  beliefs about the world

B  information about the world

C  hypotheses

D  proof

A  Confidentiality

B  Privacy

C  Informed consent

D  Anonymity

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

B  depends on whether or not any experimentation is involved

C  depends on the researcher’s definition of harm

D  can be determined by examining the pertinent legal documents

A  debriefings; deceived

B  deception; debriefed

C  confidentiality; informed

D  informed consent; confided in

A  Forced agreement

B  Confidential security

C  Informed consent

D  Privacy notice