WorksheetsTheoretical perspectives & Scientific Thinking
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 20mins
The first psychology labratory was started by ___________ in Germany in 1879.
Edward Titchner
John Watson
If a claim cannot be disproven (like Freud's theories), it is not ___________.
reliable
replicable
falsifiable
scientific
Jan is called for jury duty. As soon as Jan sees the person who is on trial, she has a feeling he is guilty. When she looks at the evidence she notices all of the details that confirm her belief that he is guilty and she does not pay attention to the evidence that suggests he is innocent. This is an example of ___________.
belief perseverance
naive realism
The _________ is the error of assuming that because one thing is associated with another, it must cause the other.
association fallacy
correlation-causation fallacy
post-hoc fallacy
none of the above
The ability of others to consistently duplicate a study's findings is called ______.
reliability
empiricism
Occam's razor is also called the principle of _________.
What are variables?
Variables are numbers.
Variables are anything that vary.
Variables are something you cannot quantify.
In the textbook, variations among people in their thinking, emotion, personality, and behaviour are called _______
character traits
variables
all of the above
Theory or hypothesis: How people explain the behaviour of others influences their attitudes towards others.
Theory
Hypothesis
Theory or hypothesis: Drinking coffee increases road rage.
Theory
Hypothesis
Theory or hypothesis: Anxiety increases self-reported loneliness.
Theory
hypothesis
Theory or hypothesis: People's behaviour is influenced by their diet.
Theory
Hypothesis
The school of thought that used introspection to identify basic elements of psychological experiences.
Cognitivism
School of thought that tries to understand the adaptive purposes of our thoughts, feelings and behaviors (roots in Darwin's theory of evolution).
Cognitivism
Psychoanalysis
Which a school of thought examines the role of mental processes on behaviour?
Cognitivism
Structuralism
School of thought that focuses on uncovering the general laws of learning by looking at observable behaviour.
Psychoanalysis
Behaviorism
Constructivism
School of thought that focuses on internal psychological processes of which we are unaware
Structuralism
Cognitivism
Neuropsychology
Match the following "founders" to their schools of thought.
Edward Titchner
Structuralism
William James
Functionalism
Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis
John Watson & B.F SKinner
Behaviourism
Piaget & Neisser
Cognitivism
Plato's "wax tablet" analogy relates to ______.
The nature of the mind
Human nature
Associations between ideas
Memory
Aristotle was interested in ____________.
Memory
Associations between ideas
Human nature
The nature of the mind
Descartes was interested in _________.
The nature of the mind
History of psychology
Scientific methods
Human nature
Match the following ideas to the school of thought they are associated with
Introspection
Structuralism
"Anti-mentalistic"
Behaviorism
Stream of though
Functionalism
"Black box"
Cognitivism
The unconscious
Psychoanalysis
Which of the following is NOT one of the goals of science?
Description
Explanation
Influence
Control
Prediction
6 Principles of Scientific Thinking: COFERR
What does the C stand for?
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6 Principles of Scientific Thinking: COFERR
What does the O stand for?
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What does the F stand for?
(a)
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What does the E stand for?
(a)
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What does the R stand for?
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6 Principles of Scientific Thinking: COFERR
What does the R stand for?
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