Exam 1

A  Charles Spearman

B  Alfred Binet

C  Lewis Terman

D  David Wechsler

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

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

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

D  He founded the American Psychological Association in 1892.

A  cognitive psychology

B  Gestalt psychology

C  structuralism

D  individual differences psychology

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  Sigmund Freud

B  Thomas Reid

C  William James

D  Immanuel Kant

A  the nature-nurture model

B  the scholar-practitioner model

C  the scientist-scholar model

D  the scientist-practitioner model

A  fear response

B  score on an anxiety questionnaire

C  personality trait

D  person’s description of anxiety

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

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

C  it is a required component of all psychology studies

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

A  confounding variables

B  independent variables

C  correlational variables

D  dependent variables

A  number of hours studied

B  method of studying (spaced or cramming)

C  exam performance

D  students

A  independent, dependent

B  dependent, correlational

C  dependent, independent

D  independent, correlational

A  type I error

B  egregious error

C  type II error

D  pseudoscientific claim

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

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

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

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  information about the world

B  beliefs about the world

C  proof

D  hypotheses

A  Confidentiality

B  Privacy

C  Informed consent

D  Anonymity

A  can be determined by examining the pertinent legal documents

B  depends on whether or not any experimentation is involved

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

D  depends on the researcher’s definition of harm

A  deception; debriefed

B  debriefings; deceived

C  informed consent; confided in

D  confidentiality; informed

A  Privacy notice

B  Confidential security

C  Informed consent

D  Forced agreement