Exam 1

A  Alfred Binet

B  David Wechsler

C  Lewis Terman

D  Charles Spearman

A  He founded the American Psychological Association in 1892.

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

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

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

A  Gestalt psychology

B  structuralism

C  cognitive psychology

D  individual differences psychology

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

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

C  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.

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  Immanuel Kant

B  Thomas Reid

C  Sigmund Freud

D  William James

A  the scientist-scholar model

B  the scholar-practitioner model

C  the nature-nurture model

D  the scientist-practitioner model

A  fear response

B  personality trait

C  score on an anxiety questionnaire

D  person’s description of anxiety

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

B  it is a required component of all psychology studies

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

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

A  confounding variables

B  correlational variables

C  independent variables

D  dependent variables

A  exam performance

B  method of studying (spaced or cramming)

C  students

D  number of hours studied

A  independent, dependent

B  dependent, independent

C  independent, correlational

D  dependent, correlational

A  type II error

B  pseudoscientific claim

C  egregious error

D  type I error

A  tend to mimic common sense understandings of the world

B  are fairly limited

C  are unbiased explanations of the natural world

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

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

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

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

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

A  Does coffee taste good?

B  Is coffee consumption associated with living longer?

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

D  Does drinking coffee increase alertness?

A  beliefs about the world

B  information about the world

C  hypotheses

D  proof

A  Informed consent

B  Privacy

C  Confidentiality

D  Anonymity

A  depends on the researcher’s definition of harm

B  depends on whether or not any experimentation is involved

C  can be determined by examining the pertinent legal documents

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

A  deception; debriefed

B  confidentiality; informed

C  informed consent; confided in

D  debriefings; deceived

A  Privacy notice

B  Informed consent

C  Confidential security

D  Forced agreement