Unit 1-2 REVIEW

Functionalism said that the purpose of our behavior is

• survival

• fun

• control

• service to others

Industrial/organizational psychologists are most likely to be hired by:

• businesses interested in maximizing worker productivity.
• elementary schools to create reading programs to help struggling students.
• fast-food chains to design an employee-training program.
• law-enforcement agencies to analyze crime scenes.

True or False: The most important feature of naturalistic observation is that researchers do not disturb the participants or their environment?

• Both
• No...Just No!
• True
• False

Behavior determined by past experiences left in the Unconscious Mind. People are unaware. Unconscious drives conscious. Sigmund Freud

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Behaviorism

• Gestalt

• Psychoanalytic

Process, store, and retrieve information. How information is used to reason and solve problems

• Evolutionary

• Biological

• Cognitive

• Social-Cultural

• Biopsychosocial

This research method is a technique for ascertaining the self – reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group.

• Survey
• Observational
• Correlational
• Experiments
• Case Study

Which is NOT a step of the scientific method?

• Hypothesis

• Problem

• Count items

• Draw Conclusions

Which kind of study can establish a cause-effect relationship between variables, assuming that the research is appropriate and well conceived?

• survey
• case study
• correlational study
• experiment

Independent variable is to dependent variable as _________ is to ____________.

• hypothesis | conclusion
• effect | cause
• cause | effect.
• conclusion | hypothesis

This research method is a descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles

• Case Study
• Survey
• Observational
• Correlational
• Experiments