Psychology Semester 1 Exam

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Which of the following best describes a case study? Options: Magazine survey, Random sampling, In-depth investigation of one or a few people, All the above

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In-depth investigation of one or a few people

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Founder of the field of psychology as an academic subject and known as the 'father of psychology'

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Wilhelm Wundt

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Swiss biologist that pioneered work with child development by seeing the mistakes younger kids make compared to older kids

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Jean Piaget

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If a psychology teacher is interested in the population of high school students at their large high school which of the following would provide him or her with a random sample?
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Randomly approaching students in the hallways,
Randomly selecting 3 classrooms; & all the students in that classroom in the sample,
Randomly selecting students from a listing of every student in the school,
Randomly selecting students from the incoming freshmen class.

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Randomly selecting students from a listing of every student in the school

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Sigmund Freud is associated with this psychological perspective

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Psychoanalysis

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Observing the way people eat in restaurants is an example of...

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Naturalistic observation

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Which of the following is an argument used for nature? Adopted children share more personality traits similar to their biological parents than with their adopted parents, Parenting plays a major role in the belief system of the child, Political persuasion is linked to the adoptive parent, Adopted children tend to score higher on intelligence tests than their biological parents

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Adopted children share more personality traits similar to their biological parents than with their adopted parents

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The understood rules for accepted and expected behaviors in society

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Norms

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Which of the following is an example of a longitudinal study? Observing a group of people in a restaurant, Studying the behavior of a child over a period of 20 years, Conducting a survey on political beliefs, Performing an experiment on rats in a lab

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Studying the behavior of a child over a period of 20 years

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Which of the following is an example of a cross-sectional study? Observing a group of people in a restaurant, Studying the behavior of a child over a period of 20 years, Conducting a survey on political beliefs, Comparing the behavior of different age groups at the same time

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Comparing the behavior of different age groups at the same time