Chapter 1: What is psychology? (claire/haley)

What type of psychology did William James invent?

• Functionalism

• Structuralism

• Behaviorism

• Psychoanalysis

What is a case study?

• when someone is surveyed

• when a group of people are studied in great detail

• one individual is studied in great detail

• when someone is naturally observed

What defines a person or animal being observed in a natural environment?

• Case Studies

• Naturalistic observation

• Laboratory observation

• Surveys

What is the first step in the scientific method?

• perceiving the question

• drawing conclusions

• forming hypothesis

• testing hypothesis

Who was the founding father of psychology?

• Mary Whiton

• Edward Titchener

• Sigmund Freud

• Wilhelm Wundt

A correlation is a measure of the relationship between two or more variables

• True

• False

The expectation and bias' of the participants in a study can influence their behavior

• The placebo effect

• Experimenter effect

• Double Blind Study

• Single Blind Study

What is the most frequent score taken as the central measure?

• bimodal

• standard deviation

• mode

• Range

which of the following correlation co-efficients would indicate the strongest relationship between two variables?

• -0.90

• 0.50

• -0.23

• 1.25

In which type of study does the experimenter knows whats happening and the participants do not?

• observational study

• correlational study

• single blind study

• double blind study