Exam 1

A  Charles Spearman

B  David Wechsler

C  Lewis Terman

D  Alfred Binet

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

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

C  He founded the American Psychological Association in 1892.

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

A  cognitive psychology

B  individual differences psychology

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

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

A  Sigmund Freud

B  Thomas Reid

C  Immanuel Kant

D  William James

A  the scholar-practitioner model

B  the scientist-scholar model

C  the scientist-practitioner model

D  the nature-nurture model

A  fear response

B  person’s description of anxiety

C  score on an anxiety questionnaire

D  personality trait

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

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

C  it is a required component of all psychology studies

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

A  independent variables

B  correlational variables

C  confounding variables

D  dependent variables

A  method of studying (spaced or cramming)

B  number of hours studied

C  exam performance

D  students

A  dependent, correlational

B  independent, correlational

C  dependent, independent

D  independent, dependent

A  egregious error

B  pseudoscientific claim

C  type I error

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

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

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

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

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

B  Does coffee taste good?

C  Is coffee consumption associated with living longer?

D  Does drinking coffee increase alertness?

A  information about the world

B  beliefs about the world

C  proof

D  hypotheses

A  Confidentiality

B  Anonymity

C  Informed consent

D  Privacy

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

B  depends on whether or not any experimentation is involved

C  can be determined by examining the pertinent legal documents

D  depends on the researcher’s definition of harm

A  debriefings; deceived

B  confidentiality; informed

C  deception; debriefed

D  informed consent; confided in

A  Forced agreement

B  Informed consent

C  Privacy notice

D  Confidential security