Psychology Unit 1: Part 1 Test

When two variables increase and decrease together.

• Strong Correlation

• Positive Correlation

• Negative Correlation

• Weak Correlation

One of the drawbacks of this type of study is that the conclusion are not very generalizable.

• Case study

• correlational study

• experiment

• survey

The school of thought based on the premise that psychological practices can only be based on what is observable.

• Behavioral perspective

• Biological perspective

• Cognitive perspective

• Psychoanalytic perspective

As miles driven in a car increases, the gallons of gas remaining decreases.

• Positive correlation

• No correlation

• Negative correlation

• Weak correlation

In testing the effects of different kinds of light on plant growth, plant growth would be the...

• Hypothesis

• Dependent variable

• Independent variable

• Control condition

The research method in which the researcher does not at all interfere with or try to control any part of the research.

• Experiment

• Case study

• Longitudinal study

• Observational study

The participants in research who receive the experimental treatment to measure its effects.

• Experimental group

• Random Sample

• Control group

• Population

One of the first people to advocate for the better treatment of the mentally ill.

• Dorothea Dix

• Mary Whiton Calkins

• Rene Descartes

• Margaret Floy Washburn

Indicated by p-value

• Scatterplot

• Correlation coefficient

• Null hypothesis

• Statistical significance

The first person to study the unconscious mind through psychoanalysis and free association.

• Freud

• Skinner

• Wundt

• Maslow