Exam 1 Review

When you question the claim that hypnosis helps people to recall memories more accurately, you are most clearly demonstrating

• positive psychology.

• the neuroscience perspective

• a biopsychosocial approach

• critical thinking

Janna has low self-esteem because she is often teased for being overweight. Appreciating the full complexity of Janna's difficulties most clearly requires

• humanistic psychology

• a psychodynamic perspective

• positive psychology

• a biopsychosocial approach

Professor Delano suggests that because people are especially attracted to those who are good-looking, handsome men will be more successful in getting a job. The professor's prediction regarding employment success is an example of

• informed consent

• the placebo effect

• a hypothesis

• a confounding variable

Professor Ambra was skeptical about the accuracy of recently reported research on sleep deprivation. Which process would best enable her to assess the reliability of the findings?

• naturalistic observation

• replication

• random sampling

• the case study

To understand the unusual behavior of an adult client, a clinical psychologist carefully investigates the client's current life situation and his physical, social-cultural, and educational history. Which research method has the psychologist used?

• the survey

• the case study

• experimentation

• naturalistic observation

The biggest danger of relying on case-study evidence is that it

• is based on naturalistic observation

• may not represent what is generally true

• overestimates the importance of operational definitions

• leads us to underestimate the causal relationships between events

Psychologists who carefully watch the behavior of chimpanzee societies in the jungle are using a research method known as

• the survey

• experimentation

• naturalistic observation

• the case study

To assess reactions to a proposed tuition hike at her school, Ariana sent a questionnaire to every fifteenth person in the registrar's alphabetical listing of all currently enrolled students. Ariana is ensuring that her survey results are accurate by using

• random assignment

• naturalistic observation

• replication

• random sampling

To determine whether the strength of people's self-esteem is related to their income level, researchers would most likely make use of

• case studies

• correlational research

• experimentation

• naturalistic observation

Suppose psychologists discovered that people with a higher socioeconomic status are less satisfied with their marriages than people with a lower socioeconomic status are. This would indicate that wealth and marital satisfaction are

• causally related

• negatively correlated

• independent variables

• positively correlated