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Worksheet time: 19mins
Psychology is defined as the scientific study of:
people and things
emotions and beliefs
perception and religion
mind and behaviour
What is hindsight bias?
The tendency to think that we could have predicted an outcome that has already occurred while in fact we probably would not have been able to predict that outcome.
The set of assumptions, rules, and procedures that scientists use to conduct empirical research.
Biased information collected through formal observation or measurement.
The act of misunderstanding a subject.
What is the probability of drawing an ace of hearts from a card deck?
1/2
1/13
1/26
1/52
What personality type is NOT in the Big 5?
Extraversion
Intuitiveness
Conscientiousness
Neuroticism
What is the premise of evolutionary psychology?
Natural selection occurs for behavioural, as well as physical characteristics.
It is important to pay attention to good things in life.
It is important to pay attention to cognitive processes.
Studying psychology is to apply the theory in real life.
The trajectory of development beginning at conception is:
zygote, fetus, embryo
embryo, zygote, fetus
zygote, embryo, fetus
embryo, fetus, zygote
Statements based on the systematic collection of data are:
empirical
empathic
dialectic
wrong
Which brain area is responsible for reasoning and planning?
brain stem
pre-frontal cortex
temporal lobe
parietal lobe
An intimate relationship is characterized by caring, warmth, social support and acceptance.
TRUE
FALSE
Acrophobia is to ________ as arachnophobia is to ________.
open spaces, spiders
spiders, open spaces
heights, spiders
spiders, heights
What does the actometer measure?
The heart rate
The subjectivity of a statement
The activity level
The reliability of a device
The ________ complex is to girls as the ________ complex is to boys.
Electra, Oedipus
Oedipus, Electra
oral, phallic
phallic, oral
What is NOT a type of validity?
Face validity
Content validity
Criterion validity
Interrater validity
Research has shown that there is no relationship between the accuracy of a person’s memory and their confidence in the accuracy of that memory.
TRUE
FALSE
Freud emphasized the role of ________ in shaping people’s personality.
free will
hormones
unconscious desires
group influence
What is stroop task about?
Infant monkeys preferred soft, nurturing moms to moms that provide food only
It is more difficult to name the color of the word if there is a discrepancy between the color and the word's meaning.
Certain responses can be conditioned by pairing a neutral stimuli with a triggering stimuli
Participants are more likely to harm other people with an authority
What does meta analysis do?
Study many other studies
Divides participants to control and experimental group
Studies correlational relationship among various variables
Studies a subject over a long period of time
Most human behaviour:
can be easily explained
has multiple causes
stems from unconscious desires
depends on social influence
According to Freud, the manifest content of a dream is superficial and meaningless.
TRUE
FALSE
A forensic psychologist would be most likely to study:
gender differences in learning styles
the impact of advertising on shopping behaviour
the effect of hormones on decision making
the accuracy of eyewitness memory
East Asian cultures tend to be more oriented toward ________ while Western culturestend to be more oriented toward ________.
individualism/collectivism
collectivism/individualism
cultural norms/social norms
social norms/cultural norms
Can you "read' the brain?
YES
NO
In a ________ experiment neither the researcher nor the participants know which condition participants are in.
blind
random
double-blind
confounded
Watson and Skinner both contributed to which school of psychology?
functionalism
cognitive
social-cultural
behaviourism
What does discriminant validity do?
Indicates the measure does not correlate with other measures presumed to measure completely different constructs
Indicates that a scale appears to, on the surface, to measure what it's supposed to measure
Indicates that the measure correlates with other measures presumed to measure similar or the same constructs
Examines how well a measure correlates with a standard criterion external to the measure
