Psychology Semester 1 Exam

Which of the following best describes a case study?

• Magazine survey

• Random sampling

• In-depth investigation of one or a few people

• All the above

What is this called? (the line pointing)

• Brain

• Limbic System

• Cerebral cortex

• Cerebellum

Founder of the field of psychology as an academic subject and known as the 'father of psychology'

• B.F. Skinner

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Ivan Pavlov

• Abraham Maslow

Swiss biologist that pioneered work with child development by seeing the mistakes younger kids make compared to older kids

• Carl Rogers

• Jean Piaget

• Ivan Pavlov

• Abraham Maslow

Phineas Gage was an example of which type of psychological study

• Correlational

• Descriptive

• Experimental

• Random Sample

If a psychology teacher is interested in the population of high school students at their large high school which of the following would provide him or her with a random sample?

• Randomly approaching students in the hallways

• Randomly selecting 3 classrooms; & all the students in that classroom in the sample

• Randomly selecting students from a listing of every student in the school

• Randomly selecting students from the incoming freshmen class.

Sigmund Freud is associated with this psychological perspective

• Humanistic

• Structuralism

• Psychoanalysis

• Functionalism

Observing the way people eat in restaurants is an example of...

• Laboratory observation

• A survey

• Naturalistic observation

• Longitudinal method

Which of the following is an argument used for nature?

• Adopted children share more personality traits similar to their biological parents than with their adopted parents

• Parenting plays a major role in the belief system of the child

• Political persuasion is linked to the adoptive parent

• Adopted children tend to score higher on intelligence tests than their biological parents

One of the goals for developing ethical principles by the American Psychological Association was the ensure

• Participants were not involved in more than one experiment

• Participants were paid for their involvement

• Participants understand the hypothesis and goal of the study

• Participants are protected from physical and psychological harm