Which perspective believed psychology should emphasize the potential for growth of each human being and an individual’s freedom to make their own decisions?

Which perspective studies how rewards and punishments influence how humans and animals act?

Which psychological perspective focuses on how we think about information?

Which psychological perspective would be most interested in studying our brain structures & chemistry, genetics, glands, etc.?

Which psychological perspective studies how the situation and our upbringing influence our behavior?

According to the ethical guidelines set by the American Psychological Association  (APA), which of the following is true of psychological research in which animals are used as subjects?

Freud believed that all thoughts and actions are determined by

Hillary is applying conditioning principles to teach language skills to little children. As a psychologist, her point of view appears to be

You see a psychologist and tell her that you are feeling depressed. She talks to you about the goals you have for yourself, about your image of yourself, and about the choices you make in your life and that you could be making in your life. This psychologist would probably belong to the __________ school of psychology. 

__________ psychology is concerned with thinking, language, and problem solving.

Johnny is part of a study designed to test the ability of a pill to cure the migraines of people who experience chronic migraines. After a few days, Johnny finds that the pill has alleviated his migraines and he experiences far fewer than usual. However, unbeknownst to Johnny, the pill he has been taking is nothing more than a sugar pill. What effect is Johnny most likely under the influence of?

An experiment where neither the participants nor the experimenter know who has received the treatment, until the experiment has concluded, is known as what?

Which of the following would not be a naturalistic observation?

Julie appeared not to be surprised when the couple broke up.  “I could have predicted that,” she said.  Julie is demonstrating:

A hypothesis is a(n):

When everybody has an equal chance of being included in a study, this process is called

Consistently, we find low self-esteem is often related with high levels of depression.  This means

In order to prove a cause-and-effect relationship, we must use

Dr. Schulte wants to investigate if aggressive behavior in children is increased if they view violent videos.  In this instance, the dependent variable is

An experiment is performed to see if background music improves learning.  Two groups study the same material, one while listening to music and another without music. The independent variable is

In an experiment to test the effects of hunger on aggressive behavior, aggressive behavior would be the

Operational definitions are used for which of the following reasons?

In an experiment to find out if taking ginseng increases IQ scores, the IQ scores would be

Of the following, which research method would be most appropriate for investigating  the relationship between political party membership and attitude toward the death penalty?

Students who do better in high school tend to do better in college.  This is an example of

Experimental research differs from correlational research in that experimental research

The tendency for research participants to behave in certain ways because they know what the researcher is looking for is called:
 
 
 

The four basic principles used to judge the ethics of research involving human participants include all the following except

What makes psychology a science?