Unit One Review

Humanistic psychologists focus on the importance of...

• childhood memories

• genetic predispositions

• unconscious thoughts

• healthy growth potential

• punishment and reinforcement

Efforts to discover whether the intelligence of children is more heavily influenced by their biology or by their home environments is most directly relevant to the debate regarding...

• structuralism vs. functionalism

• evolution vs. natural selection

• observation vs. introspection

• nature vs. nurture

• humanism vs. behaviorism

The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how...

• feelings are influenced by blood chemistry

• people try to understand their own conscious motives

• behavior is influenced by environmental conditions

• people encode, process, store, and retrieve information

• how thinking impacts behavior across cultures

The distinctive feature of the psychoanalytic perspective is its emphasis on...

• natural selection

• brain chemistry

• unconscious conflicts

• learned behaviors

• introspection

Mr. vanBreemen believes that his son became an excellent student because he consistently used praise and affection to stimulate learning efforts. This belief best illustrates which of the following perspectives?

• Humanistic

• Cognitive

• Biological

• Psychoanalytic

• Behavioral

Why is replication important to experimentation?

• It allows you to obtain a representative sample of cases to study

• The natural setting eliminates the artificial environment of a lab

• Similar results increases confidence in the reliability of findings

• Researchers are able to test the impact of belief upon behavior

• Minimizing preexisting differences between groups increases confidence in the reliability of findings

Which of the following research methods is typically used to examine one participant in depth?

• Survey

• Correlation

• Experiment

• Case Study

• Scientific Method

Which of the following statistical measures is most helpful in indicating the extent to which high school grades predict college grades?

• Standard Deviation

• Mean

• Mode

• Correlation Coefficient

• Range

A research method in which an investigator manipulates factors that potentially produce a behavior is called a(n)...

• Survey

• Experiment

• Case Study

• Naturalistic Observation

• Correlational Study

The relief of pain following the ingestion of an inert substance that is presumed to have medicinal benefits illustrates...

• random assignment

• the hindsight bias

• the double-blind fffect

• the placebo effect

• an illusory correlation