Psychology Final Review 3

Which psychologist should be associated with behaviorism?  Specifically with pigeons and lab rats.  He trained pigeons to "read" 

• Wundt
• Maslow
• Skinner
• Freud

Which of the following is the BEST definition of psychology

• the scientific study of the mind and human behavior
• the scientific study of deductive and inductive mental processes
• the study of attitudes and beliefs
• the study of emotions
  

Freud was the founder of ___________, which states that humans are naturally aggressive and sex based.

• Gestalt psychology
• psychoanalysis
• behaviorism
• functionalism

Expectations by the experimenter that might influence the results of an experiment or their interpretation are called

• experimental blinds
• sample bias
• treamtment bias
• experimenter bias

Factors other than the independent variable that could produce a change in the dependent variable are called...Example:  mints cause you to do better on tests, or MAYBE it's because you studied.  

• random assignment
• control group
• confounding variables
• experimental group

Seeing that polio increased when ice cream sales increased is an example of

• causation
• correlation
• causation AND correlation

An experimenter looking to prove that stating goals out loud lowers the chance that a person will achieve them might design a test in such a way that the results he expects come true is most likely experiencing

• confirmation bias
• experimenter bias
• hindsight bias
• participant bias

Shows like, "What would you do?" are examples of

• surveys
• case studies
• experimentation
• naturalistic observation

Who researched the automatic salivation responses of dogs

• Pavlov
• Watson
• Skinner
• Piaget

Mr. Fuller refuses to allow his hopes to be raised too high and now after a Vikings loss Mr. Fuller responds by saying, “I knew they were going to lose”.  Mr. Fuller is experiencing

• confirmation bias
• experimenter bias
• hindsight bias
• participant bias