Psychology: Where it all Began
The Scientific Method
Learning
Development
Psychoanalytic Theory
100
Psycholgy is relevant____.
In all aspects of life
100
How are theories, hypotheses, and research different?
Theories are broad conceptual frameworkdees; hypotheses are derived from theories and are used to design research that will support or fail to support a theory; and research is a test of the hypotheses.
100
A change in an organism's behavior or thought as a result of experience is called?
Learning
100
Teratogens are ____.
Environmental agents that harm the embryo or fetus
100
Sigmund Freud's structure of the Personality involves three parts which are:
id, ego, superego
200
Critical thinking is _____.
Systematically assessing information to reach reasonable conclusions
200
How does psychological research differ from relying on personal experience or intuition as a way of understanding thoughts, emotions, and behavior?
Carefully designed research is the most objective method for understanding thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
200
In Pavlov's experiment the BELL was the ____.
Conditioned stimulus
200
Which of the following research findings would support the idea that humans have sensitive learning periods?
Genie could not learn to make coherent sentences, even after four years of therapy.
200
A defense mechanism is:
unconscious manuever intended to minimize anxiety
300
Experimental psychology began_____.
With introspection
300
The main reason that researchers randomly assign participants to different groups in an experiment is that____.
random assignment is the only way to ensure that the experimental groups are (on average) equal and that nay difference in the dependent variable is due to the participants' being in different experimental groups.
300
In Pavlov's experiment the MEAT POWDER was the____.
Unconditioned stimulus
300
Which of the following statments is true regarding the research findings on attachment?
Warm, responsive, and supportive parenting helps children regulate their emotions, an essential skill for developing healthy relationships.
300
Denial is:
motivated forgetting of distressing external experiences.
400
______ developed the first psychology laboratory and institute.
Wilhelm Wundt
400
The independent variable is the variable that is____.
Manipulated
400
_____ is the discoverer of classical conditioning.
Ivan Pavlov
400
Which of the following statements about children's development is FALSE?
Deaf children proceed through different stages of language development than hearing children.
400
The first stage of Freud's Psychosexual development is:
Oral
500
The problem with introspection is that experience is____.
Subjective
500
The dependent variable is the variable that is____.
Measured
500
_____ is the founder of behaviorism.
John B. Watson
500
The first stage in Erikson's Eight stages of Human Development is____.
Trust versus mistrust
500
Many claims of humanistic models are difficult to falsify.
True
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