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100

The idea that some people cope with stress by moving towards people, away from people, or against people is most consistent with the views of this famous psychologist.

Who is Karen Horney?

100

According to Carl Jung, there are tendencies that shape human behavior and can be represented by terms such as "the hero" or "the shadow". In his work, he referred to such tendencies as these. 

What are Archetypes?

100

A research method commonly used by psychologists and other social scientists. This technique involves observing subjects in their natural environment. 

What is Naturalistic Observation?

100

In statistics, this term denotes the average distance of the data values from their mean.  


What is Standard Deviation?

200

This learning theorist first demonstrated that a neutral stimulus could acquire the ability to evoke a response originally attributed to another stimulus.

Who is Ivan Pavlov?

200

This school of psychology rejected the concept of consciousness and defined psychology as an objective natural science.

What is Behaviorism?

200

The primary concern of using projective tests in research. 

What is Subjectivity?

200

In order to compare the means of two groups, researchers must run this statistical analysis.

What is a T-Test?

300

This famous philosopher insisted that the mind at birth is like a blank slate devoid of character or ideas.

Who is John Locke?

300

Sigmund Freud began his career as this type of medical professional.

What is a Neurologist?

300

Conducting a study by analyzing United States census data from previous years is an example of using this research approach.  

What is Archival Analysis?

300

The level of statistical significance is often expressed as a p-value between 0 and 1. The smaller the p-value, the stronger the evidence that you should reject the null hypothesis. A p-value less than this number is considered statistically significant. 

What is Less than 0.05?

400

This famous psychologist was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of inferiority, the inferiority complex, is recognized as an isolating element that plays a key role in personality development.

Who is Alfred Adler?

400

According to Edward Tolman, the behavior is best understood by these two terms.

What are molar and Purposive?

400

An investigator interested in the development of children's attitudes towards the police assessed and compared the attitudes of 250 8-year-olds, 240 12-year-olds, and 245 16-year-olds. She matched the three groups with regard to gender and socioeconomic background. The investigator’s research design is best characterized as this kind of study.


What is Cross-Sectional?

400

This type of analysis allows researchers to determine what relationship, if any, exists between sets of data.

What is a Regression Analysis?

500

These two individuals are credited with the founding of psychology, as indicated by the formation of psychology laboratories in the 1870s.

Who are Wilhelm Wundt and William James? 

500

This early psychological school of thought was heavily influenced by the ideas of pragmatism. It was primarily promoted by William James. 


 What is Functionalism?

500

An experimenter predicts that bright colors enhance creativity. She provides brightly colored crayons to the first 15 children who show up for an experiment and muted colored crayons for the remaining 15. She then examines their drawings and judges the brightly colored drawings to be more creative. This study is flawed because it lacks these two requirements of a true experimental study.

What are Random Assignment and a Double-Blind Procedure?

500

These statistics are used to describe the basic features of the data in a study. They provide simple summaries about the sample and the measures. Together with simple graphics analysis, they form the basis of virtually every quantitative analysis of data.

What are Descriptive Statistics?

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