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Psychology Vocabulary 1

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

If your psychologist tells you that your personality and behavior is determined by our unconscious, she is probably a uses a ___________ approach.

a)

humanistic

b)

behavioral

c)

psychoanalytic

d)

clinical

2.

In psychological research, the extent to which two factors can be compared to each other is called:

a)

independent variable

b)

correlation

c)

survey

d)

random assignment

3.

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?

a)

case study

b)

hindsight bias

c)

empirical data

d)

survey

4.

This type of psychological research can identify cause and effect between two variables.

a)

experiment

b)

case study

c)

evolutionary

d)

survey

5.

In an experiement about whether elderly people can breathe better if they do daily walking program, what is the dependant variable?

a)

elderly people

b)

walking program

c)

whether they have a dog or not

d)

the type of senior living facility

6.

When participants are assigned to the control group and to the experimental group by chance, this is an example of:

a)

selective sampling

b)

random assignment

c)

hindsight bias

d)

population

7.

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.

a)

hypothesis

b)

observer bias

c)

conclusions

d)

replication

8.

The field that concentrates on how we encode and recall memories is __________ psychology:

a)

behavioral

b)

psychoanalytic

c)

humanistic

d)

cognitive

9.

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?

a)

humanistic

b)

evolutionary

c)

clinical

d)

industrial

10.

This organization is the largest group of psychologists and like professionals in the world?

a)

biopsychosocialism

b)

American Psychological Association

c)

Scientific method

d)

Psychoanalytic's R US!

11.

One of the problems with the survey method of research is:

a)

inexpensive

b)

collect a lot of data

c)

leading or badly phrased questions

d)

it finds cause and effect

12.

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?

a)

Biological

b)

Cognitive

c)

Behavioral

d)

Evolutionary

13.

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:

a)

evolutionary

b)

industrial

c)

behavioral

d)

humanistic

14.

More than 50 % of psychologists are involved in _________ practice--largely meeting with clients in their office for therapy.

a)

evolutionary

b)

clinical

c)

industrial

d)

research

15.

Random sampling is achieved by :

a)

choosing participants in a experiemental group by chance.

b)

a bias due to interference of the tester's thoughts, beliefs or actions.

c)

using a cross section of a population so that any person has the same chance to be selected.

d)

a research method that can determine cause and effect.

16.

The _________ field of psychology specializes in research regarding neuroscience and brain issues, along with developing and testing medications to help with psychological disorders.

a)

humanistic

b)

biological

c)

civilian

d)

industrial

17.

The scientific study of human behavior, emotion and personality is?

a)

psychiatry

b)

mental disorders

c)

sociology

d)

psychology

18.

In a study about whether excercise can help older people sleep better, the independent variable was elderly people and the dependent variable was:

a)

the quality of sleep

b)

how many cookies they ate during the past week

c)

whether or not they exercised

d)

whether they turned eighty before the end of the experiment

19.

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.

a)

psychoanalytic

b)

behavioral

c)

biological

d)

research

20.

The information obtained from a psychological study that is analyzed to conclude if a hypothesis is correct is called ________ data.

a)

formative

b)

correlationship

c)

empirical

d)

variables