Psychology Final

The goals of psychology are to observe, describe, explain, predict, and control behavior.

• True

• False

A theory is a basic truth or law.

• True

• False

Scientists studied people with brain injuries to learn more about the function of different areas of the brain during the early days of brain research.

• True

• False

The right side of the brain is responsible for processing information that comes from the right side of the body.

• True

• False

Any environmental agent that causes damage during the prenatal period is referred to as a teratogen.

• True

• False

The age of viability is the earliest point at which the fetus can survive if born early.

• True

• False

Stanley Milgram’s shock experiment found that most people will obey orders from an authority figure, even when it harms others.

• True

• False

In Solomon Asch’s conformity experiment, Asch found that a person would pick the line that matched the original line they were shown even if all of the other people in the group picked a different line.

• True

• False

Europeans who helped Jews escape during the Holocaust while risking their own lives were showing altruism.

• True

• False

The bystander effect decreases as the size of the crowd increases.

• True

• False