WorksheetsPsychology Vocabulary 1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 40mins
If your psychologist tells you that your personality and behavior is determined by our unconscious, she is probably a uses a ___________ approach.
humanistic
behavioral
psychoanalytic
clinical
In psychological research, the extent to which two factors can be compared to each other is called:
independent variable
correlation
survey
random assignment
Sylvia told Don that their psychological research project could be done inexpensively through questions posed to a random sample of people. What kind of research method did did she suggest?
case study
hindsight bias
empirical data
survey
This type of psychological research can identify cause and effect between two variables.
experiment
case study
evolutionary
survey
In an experiement about whether elderly people can breathe better if they do daily walking program, what is the dependant variable?
elderly people
walking program
whether they have a dog or not
the type of senior living facility
When participants are assigned to the control group and to the experimental group by chance, this is an example of:
selective sampling
random assignment
hindsight bias
population
What is the appropriate step in the scientific method when a specific question is formed to be tested. It is sometimes called the subject of the study.
hypothesis
observer bias
conclusions
replication
The field that concentrates on how we encode and recall memories is __________ psychology:
behavioral
psychoanalytic
humanistic
cognitive
Silvia is a psychologistic that does research into the origins of people's fear of the dark. Silvia is a member of what field of psychology?
humanistic
evolutionary
clinical
industrial
This organization is the largest group of psychologists and like professionals in the world?
biopsychosocialism
American Psychological Association
Scientific method
Psychoanalytic's R US!
One of the problems with the survey method of research is:
inexpensive
collect a lot of data
leading or badly phrased questions
it finds cause and effect
Maurice researches training animals to adopt certain behaviors based on a system of intermittent rewards, such as food, and small electric shocks if the animal does not do the behavior after a certain number of tries. What field of psychology is Maurice a member?
Biological
Cognitive
Behavioral
Evolutionary
The field of study that asserts that people can reach self-actualization and that you do not need to have a disorder to seek therapy is:
evolutionary
industrial
behavioral
humanistic
More than 50 % of psychologists are involved in _________ practice--largely meeting with clients in their office for therapy.
evolutionary
clinical
industrial
research
Random sampling is achieved by :
choosing participants in a experiemental group by chance.
a bias due to interference of the tester's thoughts, beliefs or actions.
using a cross section of a population so that any person has the same chance to be selected.
a research method that can determine cause and effect.
The _________ field of psychology specializes in research regarding neuroscience and brain issues, along with developing and testing medications to help with psychological disorders.
humanistic
biological
civilian
industrial
The scientific study of human behavior, emotion and personality is?
psychiatry
mental disorders
sociology
psychology
In a study about whether excercise can help older people sleep better, the independent variable was elderly people and the dependent variable was:
the quality of sleep
how many cookies they ate during the past week
whether or not they exercised
whether they turned eighty before the end of the experiment
Dasia likes to have her clients involved in therapy come to their office and freely associate events in their life in order to try to reach unconcious thoughts, feelings and desires that may be causing problems in their behavior. She is most likely using the _________ approach to psychology.
psychoanalytic
behavioral
biological
research
The information obtained from a psychological study that is analyzed to conclude if a hypothesis is correct is called ________ data.
formative
correlationship
empirical
variables
