Psychology - Lecture 1

Which of the following statements about critical thinking is false?

• It is the ability to assess claims and make objective judgements

• It is the ability to think creatively and constructively

• It is to make judgements based on well-supported reasons and evidence

• It is the criticism of an argument

Which of the following is NOT a research method?

• Descriptive Methods

• Correlation Methods

• Experimental Methods

• Sociological Methods

Descriptive Methods are methods that....

Correlational Methods are methods that....

Experimental methods are methods that....

Which of the following fall under Descriptive Studies?

A) Observational Studies

B) Case Studies

C) Polls

D) Surveys

E) Psychological Tests

• A,B,C,E

• A,C,E

• B,D,E

• A,B,D,E

What is the Placebo effect?

• The participant is immune to the study

• Expectations and biases of the experimenters in the study influencing the participant's behaviour

• Expectations and biases of the participants in the study influencing their behaviour

• The participant reacts negatively to the study

What is the Experimenter effect?

• The experimenter's biases influencing the participant's behaviour

• The participant's biases influencing the experimentor's behaviour

• The participant's family experiments on them

• The partcipant experiment's on their family

What is a Single Blind study?

• Researchers isolate one person as a control in the study

• Participants are blind to the condition assigned

• A single blind person is used in the study

• Researchers are blind to the conditions assigned

Critical thinking requires Scientific Attitude. What are the requirements of Sceintific Attitude?

• Curiousity

• Scepticism

• Humility

• All of the above