Exam 1

A  exam performance

B  students

C  method of studying (spaced or cramming)

D  number of hours studied

A  Variance probability

B  Variable evidence

C  Cause and effect

D  Statistical significance

E  Statistical Proof

A  Hippocampus Percentage Area

B  Hippocampus Pineal Anterior

C  Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal

D  High Profile Axis

A  dualism

B  empiricism

C  functionalism

D  interactionism

A  Privacy notice

B  Informed consent

C  Forced agreement

D  Confidential security

A  resiliency of the immune system.

B  permanent memory loss.

C  damage of the hippocampus.

D  damage to the immune system.

A  Random number generators

B  Range indicators

C  Algorithmic statistics

D  Variability indexes

E  P values

A  To go to each game and keep statistical records of every player’s performance.

B  To take a random team and evaluate its performance over the last two seasons.

C  To study the way the players all performed in the previous season, which ended 10 months ago.

D  To take a random sample of players from each team and test them on various baseball drills.

A  The researcher would go to the lab where the original research was conducted and re-run the original study using identical materials and the same participants.

B  The researcher would read the published article about the original research and create new procedures and materials that test the same hypothesis in a somewhat different way.

C  The researcher would re-analyze the data collected in the original study to determine whether the results were the same.

D  The researcher would read the published article about the original research and use the same materials and procedures with new participants.

A  naturalistic observation

B  correlation studies

C  case studies

D  true experiments

A  0.05

B  0.07

C  0.03

D  0.15

E  0.10

A  to identify schoolchildren in need of additional help

B  to evaluate prospective new teachers

C  to select only the most intelligent citizens to reproduce

D  for officer training in the military

E  for admission to The Sorbonne University

A  It is difficult to determine because there are several potential causes of non-replication.

B  The original researchers falsified their data.

C  The replication researchers made an error in their replication.

D  Cultural and social norms have shifted. The results were accurate when the research was first conducted but people have changed since then.

A  Gustav Fechner

B  Hermann von Helmholtz

C  Thomas Reid

D  Ernst Weber

A  sharing findings with other scientists so they can comment on their validity

B  conducting research carefully by designing studies well and including a sufficient sample size

C  repeating research to determine whether findings are consistent across time and situations

D  conducting multiple statistical tests on the same data to determine whether results are consistent

A  His students gave self-reports of their reactions to stimuli.

B  He compared human behavior to chimpanzee behavior.

C  He studied people’s dreams and the symbols that they contained.

D  He conducted brain scans.

E  He tested the behavior of drunken and sober subjects.

A  the number of people in a specific demographic group

B  the number of participants in a study

C  the amount of a substance administered to participants in a study

D  the ability of a study to detect reliable effects

A  Sympathetic Nervous System and Fight-Flight Response

B  Parasympathetic Nervous System and Sympathetic Nervous System

C  All of these

D  Parasympathetic Nervous System and Fight-Flight Response

A  You should ask some friends whether the findings of the study make sense to them. 

B  You should investigate whether the researchers have been found to falsify data in the past.

C  You should determine whether the finding has been replicated.

D  You should talk to the researchers who conducted the study to get lots of detail about how the study was conducted, what they found, and what it means.

A  Standard deviation

B  Mode

C  Median

D  P-value

E  Mean

A  Be all that you can be.

B  If at first you don’t succeed, try again!

C  Reality is what you think, not what you see.

D  The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

A  human lifespan.

B  ATP

C  Sirt1

D  All of these

E  neurotrophins

A  Inductive reasoning

B  A scientific theory

C  Deductive reasoning

D  Empirical research

A  pseudoscientific claim

B  type II error

C  type I error

D  egregious error

A  margin of error

B  student samples

C  external factors

D    

E  parameters

F  cause and effect

A  -0.9

B  +2.52

C  +0.30

D  +0.05

A  longest

B  simplest

C  most complex

D  oldest

A  access to collected data be limited to research staff

B  it be impossible to connect data to individuals

C  participants not be asked for personal information

D  all data be collected anonymously

A  Falsifiable claims

B  Null hypothesis significance tests

C  P-values

D  Distributions

A  the study of the brain and nervous system

B  gender differences

C  observable behavior

D  self-reported behavior

E  internal thoughts and feelings

A  People will not want to participate if they don’t benefit from the study.

B  A study without applicable benefits will not make a contribution to society.

C  A study should only be conducted if the study’s benefits outweigh the risks.

D  A study with benefits will ensure that participants are compensated for their participation.

A  GABA

B  GAS

C  HPA axis

D  none of the above

A  no relationship between the time of day individuals exercise and subjective well-being

B  a relationship between the time of day individuals exercise and subjective well-being

C  physical exercise does not lead to subjective well-being

D  physical exercise leads to subjective well-being

A  the participants

B  the number of erections

C  the journal

D  the Viagra

A  Wundt added a laboratory experience to his experimental psychology lectures.

B  The first PhD in psychology was granted.

C  The first American psychology laboratory was established.

D  The term psychology was first used in newspaper articles.

E  The American Psychological Association (APA) was founded.

A  learning

B  the mind

C  classical conditioning

D  psychology

E  the organism’s biology

A  Are humans inherently good or bad?

B  Do native English-speaking Canadians take longer to learn Chinese or to learn Spanish?

C  Is Japanese a prettier language than German?

D  What is the meaning of life?

A  Francis Sumner

B  Althenia Davidson

C  Margaret Floy Washburn

D  Mary Whiton Calkins

A  psychodynamic

B  cognitive

C  behavioral

D  humanistic

A  interpersonal variation

B  the outgroup homogeneity bias

C  internal validity

D  generalizability