PSY1000-SUM-Quiz1

What is Psychology？

• The systematic study

  of behavior and experience.

• A discipline that focuses on solving theoretical problems.

• The systematic study only focus on behavior.

• A discipline that focuses on solving practical problems.

In philosophical questions related to psychology, the debate on the relative contributions of biology and experience to human development is most often referred to as:

• Mind–brain

• Determinism–free will

• Nature-nurture

• Teleology and causation

Which is NOT one of the three general themes in psychology?

• It depends

• Progress depends on

  good measurement

• Confidence in the conclusions should depend on the strength

  of the evidence

• The research content should only be related to human beings

The elements of a paper can be represented by the letter IMRAD. What do you think the I stands for:

• Information

• Interest

• Innovation

• Introduction

What is the relationship between the sample and the population？

• The sample was selected from the population.

• The population was selected from the sample.

• They are the same.

Suppose you stand on a street and you interview every 10th person who walks by. What kind of sample is this？

• convenience

• representative

• random

The more crowded a neighborhood, the lower the income. Identify the correlation.

• positive correlation

• zero correlation

• negative correlation

For the following distribution of scores, determine the median: 5, 2, 2, 2, 8, 3, 1, 6, 7.

• 2

• 3

• 5

• 7