Review for Unit I History and Methods

What is the name of the technique where people would examine their own thoughts/behaviors?

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empricism

This early psychological perspective believes that the mind can be broken up into separate parts?

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empricism

What theory states that all knowledge should be collected through the senses/observation/experimentation?

• empiricism

• structuralism

• functionalism

• introspection

What early perspective did not care about the "parts" of the mind but rather how the mind adapts to what we need to survive?

• introspection

• structuralism

• functionalism

• empiricism

Professor Schrute carefully monitors and records that behaviors of children on school playgrounds to track the development of their physical skills. Professor Schrute is engaged in:

• experimentation

• survey research

• replication

• naturalistic observation

Placebo effect

• A real response, positive or negative, to an action or substance based solely on expectations, not on the actual properties of the action or substance.

• The group to which the researcher manipulate the independent variable

• The measure of the relationship between two variables.

• The observation of human or animal behavior in its natural setting

Researchers who study single individuals in depth in order to uncover general principles of thinking and behavior are using which research method?

• experimentation

• naturalistic observation

• correlational study

• case study

What is one disadvantage of a survey?

• People don't tell the truth

• Yields a lot of information

• Provides a good way to generate hypotheses

• Can provide information about many people since it's cheap and easy to do

Each time a study is repeated, the results are consistent

• validity

• reliability

• sample

Behaviorists suggested that our behavior is influenced by __________________.

• learned experiences

• unconscious motives

• internal motivation

• cognitive dissonance