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It's All About Perspective
Test Your Ethics
100
What is the standard deviation?
What is, how much a data point varies from the mean?
100
This type of study which is designed to merely record and observe behavior with zero interference from researchers.
What is naturalistic observation?
100
Social psychologist known for his study on bobo the doll, discovered social learning theory which suggests that observation and modeling play a primary role in how and why people learn.
Who is Albert Bandura?
100
Alvin has trouble with memory due to his abnormally small hippocampus. This is most likely the _____________ perspective.
What is the biological perspective?
100
When a researcher describes the following procedures to their participant, in order for them to reach a decision on whether or not to participate.
What is informed consent?
200
The test scores for AP Unit 1 were: 68, 79, 83, 100, 56, 89, and 88. The median of the data set is...
what is 83
200
This study by Zimbardo, shows how in a prison setting deindividuation can lead people in positions of power to take on the norms of the group leading to abuse, while learned helplessness causes prisoners to become obedient.
The Stanford Prison Experiment
200
This functionalist wrote the Principles of Psychology
Who is William James?
200
This perspective would align with why Adam chose to marry Cindy for her wide hips, which indicated she will bear healthy children.
What is the evolutionary perspective?
200
Assigning participants to treatment or non-treatment group with equal chances
What is random assignment?
300
The test scores for AP Unit 1 were: 68, 79, 83, 100, 56, 89, and 88. The mean of the data set is...
What is 80.42?
300
In the little albert study conducted by John B Watson conditioned a baby to be afraid of white furry things. Little Albert was not deconditioned and remained afraid of animals for the rest of his life, what was the ethical flaw in this study?
They caused Albert harmed because they did not decondition him and he remained afraid of stuffed animals for the rest of his life
300
This student of William James was denied her PhD by Harvard, though she finished all of her degree requirements.
Who is Mary Whiton Calkins?
300
Ms. Morris believes that students are motivated to act out in class by their unmet needs in esteem and belonging. She would be using the ________ perspective.
What is the humanistic perspective?
300
When everyone in the population has an equal chance of being in the study, it's called...
What is random sampling?
400
Which of the following coefficient correlations express the strongest relationship between two variables? -.91, -.71, -.32, +.8,
-0.91
400
Explain Ivan Pavlov's study including what principle he descovered
He discovered conditioning, by getting a dog to associate a previously neutral stimulus such as a bell, with an unconditioned stimulus such as food, which leads to an unconditioned response, which is drooling. As a result the bell becomes a conditioned stimulus and elicits the conditioned response of drooling
400
This researcher was studying participant's reaction times to visual senses.
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
400
The ______ perspective might infer that Tina wears skirts and dresses because she is unknowingly affected by her father leaving her mother for a woman who preferred skirts.
What is the psychoanalytical perspective?
400
Why is an operational definition important (one word)
Replication
500
The type of correlation that shows the amount of students who wear sweatshirts increase as the temperature decreases.
What is negative correlation?
500
What are 2 things required for a study to be considered an experiment.
1. A treatment (independent variable)
2. Informed consent
3. Random assignment
4. Dependent variable
5. Control
500
This leading behaviorist rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behavior.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
500
Using the __________ perspective, the Smiths trained their dog not to leave their yard by using an invisible fence that delivers low level shocks if the dog passes it.
What is the Behavioral perspective?
500
This word simply says knowing what we know- our awareness of our own thinking processes & understanding what we know
Metacognition