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Unit 1 & 2 Psychology

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 2hrs 28mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Use Complete Sentences:

Define AND give an example of a behavior not found on the powerpoint notes.

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2.

Use Complete Sentences:

Define AND give an example of a mental process not found on the powerpoint notes.

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3.

Answer in complete sentences:

Who is Edward Titchener?

Where did he move to and what did he do when he got there?

What did he develop and what is the definition of it?

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4.

Write a paragraph, in complete sentences:

Why does studying psychology benefit you?

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5.

Write in complete sentences:

Who is Wilhelm Wundt?

What does he establish?

What idea is he credited with and what is the definition of the idea?

What is consciousness?

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6.

Answer in complete sentences:

Give two facts about Margaret Floy Washburn.

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7.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is the definition of structuralism?

Who was it founded by?

When did it die out?

Provide 3 examples of introspection not found on the powerpoint.

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8.

Write in complete sentences:

Give two facts about G. Stanley Hall.

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9.

Write in complete sentences:

Provide two facts about Mary Whiton Calkins.

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10.

Write in complete sentences:

Who is William James?

What idea was founded by James? Give the definition of this idea.

Who was he influenced by?

What was his first book?

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11.

Write in complete sentences:

What is the definition of functionalism?

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12.

Answer in complete sentences:

Provide 3 facts about Dr. Ruth Howard.

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13.

Answer in complete sentences:

Who is Dr. Inez Beverly Prosser?

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14.

Who does a clinical psychologist treat? (What kind of problems do their patients have?)

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15.

Type True or False: A psychologist can prescribe a patient medicine.

(a)  

16.

Which type of research do YOU think is the most valuable?

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17.
Who was the first African-American male to earn a Ph.D. in Psychology?
a)
Francis Cecil Sumner
b)
Richard Gregory
c)
Bill Cosby
d)
Adam Clayton Powell
18.

Write 5 complete sentences to answer:

Explain the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic perspective.

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19.

Write 5 complete sentences to answer:

Explain the behaviorism perspective.

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20.

Write 5 complete sentences to answer:

Explain the humanistic perspective.

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21.

Write 4 complete sentences to answer:

Explain the cognitive perspective.

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22.

Write 5 complete sentences to answer:

Explain the evolutionary perspective.

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23.

Write 3 complete sentences to answer:

Explain the sociocultural perspective.

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24.

Write 3 complete sentences to answer:

Explain the biological perspective.

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25.

Write 3 complete sentences to answer:

Explain the biopsychosocial perspective.

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26.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is applied research?

Provide 1 example.

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27.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is basic research?

Provide 1 example.

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28.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is clinical psychology?

What sort of patients do they see?

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29.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is counseling psychology?

What sort of patients do they see?

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30.

 

Answer in complete sentences:

What is educational psychology?

What sort of patients do they see?

Where do they tend to work?

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31.

 

Answer in complete sentences:

What is industrial/organizational psychology?

What sort of patients do they see?

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32.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is positive research?

What do they emphasize?

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33.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is social research?

What sort of patients do they observe?

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34.

 

Answer in complete sentences:

What is biological research?

What sort of patients do they observe?

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35.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is developmental research?

How long do they spend observing patients?

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36.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is psychometric research?

How long do they spend observing patients?

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37.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is experimental research?

What sort of patient will they observe?

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38.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is personality research?

What sort of patient will they observe?

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39.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is cognitive research?

What sort of patient will they observe?

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40.

In complete sentences:

Explain 2 differences between a psychologist and psychiatrist.

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41.

True or False:

Structuralism and Functionalism are the two early schools of thought in Psychology.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is the scientific method? Provide

Explain each of the 6 steps.

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43.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is critical thinking?

Why is it important to ask questions?

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44.

Answer in complete sentences:

Define scientific inquiry.

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45.

Provide the definition and an example for:

Hindsight Bias

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46.

Provide the definition and an example for:

Overconfidence

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47.

What is another word for "inquiry"?

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48.

Answer in complete sentences:

What does the scientific approach and what does it allow for researchers to do?

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49.

What does a theory have to have in order to be an actual theory?

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50.

Provide the definition and an example for:

Theory

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51.

Provide the definition and an example for:

Case Study

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52.

Answer in complete sentences and at least a paragraph length.

Which case study did your group have on Monday?

Provide a summary.

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53.

What will a case study use to observe participants?

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54.

Answer in complete sentences:

Provide one advantage and one disadvantage for case studies.

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55.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is a naturalistic observation?

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56.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is field work?

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57.

Answer in complete sentences:

Give one advantage and one disadvantage for naturalistic observation.

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58.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is a laboratory observation?

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59.

List three psychological tests:

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60.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is the definition of a survey?

What was your survey's topic?

What were the results of your survey?

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61.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is one advantage and one disadvantage to surveys?

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62.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is the longitudinal method?

Provide an example of a longitudinal method being used.

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63.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is the cross sectional method?

Provide an example of a cross sectional method being used.

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64.

Answer in complete sentences:

What is an experiment?

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65.

Identify the 1.) independent variable and the 2.) dependent variable:

The height of bean plants depends on the amount of water they receive.

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66.

Identify the 1.) independent variable and the 2.) dependent variable:

Stella thinks that if people are exposed to ultraviolet light then they are more likely to get skin cancer. Stella designs an experiment wherein sample A consisted of people were exposed to ultraviolet light and sample B was not.

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67.

Identify the 1.) independent variable and the 2.) dependent variable:

Justin  B. believes that the temperature lowering during the fall months is what causes the color of the leaves to change. He set up an experiment wherein he placed some plants in 80 degrees rooms and some in 60 degree rooms.

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68.

Write in complete sentences:

What is an independent variable?

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69.

Write in complete sentences:

What is a dependent variable?

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70.

Define the term in complete sentences:

Sampling

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71.

Define the term in complete sentences:

population

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72.

Define the term in complete sentences:

Random Sample

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73.

Define the term in complete sentences:

Stratified Sample

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74.

Define the term in complete sentences:

Confounding Variable

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75.

Define the term in complete sentences:

Placebo Effect

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76.

Define using complete sentences:

Experimenter Bias

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77.

Define in complete sentences:

single blind experiment

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78.

Define in complete sentences:

Double blind experiment

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79.

Is this Structuralism or Functionalism: Interested in what is happening

(a)  

80.

Is this Structuralism OR Functionalism: interested in how/why something happens.

(a)  

81.

What is a criticism (problem) with introspection in psychology?

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82.

Who is considered the "Father of Psychology”?

a)

Edward Titchener

b)

William James

c)

Wilhelm Wundt

83.

If you have thought about the homework you have to finish tonight, would you be having a mental process or a behavior?

a)

Mental Process

b)

Behavior

84.

During my meditation, I thought about all of the things that make me anxious. I thought about why they make me anxious and how I could help myself to not be so anxious about them in the future. What would I be doing since I was thinking about what I think about?

a)

Introspection

b)

Structuralism

c)

Functionalism

85.

True or False: Gestalt is a person

a)

False

b)

True

86.

Who developed the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic perspective?

a)

Freud

b)

Pavlov

c)

Calkins

87.

What does the psychodynamic perspective look at to explain behavior?

a)

Someone's background

b)

Evolution

c)

Someone's changing hormones

88.

What is an independant variable?

a)

a variable that stays the same in an experiment

b)

the result of an experiment

c)

a variable that is changed by the scientist

d)

a variable that changes because of the experiment

89.

What is the dependent variable?

a)

a variable that the scientist changes

b)

a variable that does not change during an experiment

c)

the result of the experiment

d)

a variable that never changes

90.

Answer in complete sentences:

Why should researchers beware of confounding variables?

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91.

Create an experiment. Include an independent and dependent variable as well as a confounding variable. Explain how each role influences the experiment.

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92.

Define a double blind procedure:

a)

A statistical procedure that identifies common factors among groups of items

b)

An experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo.

c)

Any effect on behavior caused by the placebo, which the recipient assumes is an active agent, given to the control group in an experiment.

d)

A statement of the procedures used to define research variables.

93.

In an experiement, this is main factor that is being studied, the "if" part of the study.

a)

distribution

b)

confounding variable

c)

independent variable

d)

correlation

94.

Three descriptive methods of psychological research.

a)

experiements, correlations, case studies

b)

dependent variable, case studies, inferential statistics

c)

naturalistic observation, experiements, case study

d)

case studies, naturalistic observation, surveys

95.

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.

a)

sampling bias

b)

hindsight bias

c)

the random effect bias

d)

single blind procedure

96.

Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance, minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups.

a)

random sampling

b)

double blind procedure

c)

random assignment

d)

random mugging

97.

In an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment being studied.

a)

experiemental group

b)

random sampling

c)

control group

d)

confounding variable

98.

The psychoanalytic approach in psychology believes

a)

all of our behavior is learned.

b)

people are capable of self-actualization

c)

much of our behavior stems from unconscious wants and desires.

d)

memory formation depends on sensory input.

99.

Whether our behavior is biologically determined or is determined by the environment in which we live is part of the

a)

biopsychosocial approach

b)

nature versus nurture debate

c)

evolutionary conundrum

d)

cognitive approach

100.

The Phineas Gage incident is the basis of a psychological

a)

myth

b)

metastudy

c)

observational technique

d)

case study

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