Psychoperspectives
Which perspective would be most interested in research on hormone levels influencing behaviors?
Biological
What is the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist?
medical degree
_____ must be received from participants prior to taking part in a study.
Informed consent
What research method should be used to study a rare phenomenon?
Case study
What numerical value corresponds to no association between variables?
0
This perspective is concerned with thought processes, beliefs, and the ways humans store & process sensory information.
Cognitive
Help people with everyday problems
Counseling
A ____ is used to measure the relationship between two things.
correlation
Which method best shows cause and effect relationships.
Experiment
What can be said about a student who scores in the 85th percentile on an achievement test?
They scored better than 85% of all other test takers
Which perspective examines the influences of a society’s values & political system on behavior?
Sociocultural
Studies behavior of people in group settings
social
The wider the variance of a set of scores equals a greater ____.
standard deviation or range
Difference between naturalistic and laboratory observations.
Researcher controls environment in laboratory
What percentage of scores fall at or below the mean in a normal distribution?
50%
Which perspective would believe violence exists because violent behavior is learned? Who is/are the leader(s)
Behaviorist - Watson & Skinner
Leadership, job satisfaction, employee motivation, etc.
I/O
The part of the research procedure known as ___________ reduces problems associated with deception.
debriefing
Operational definitions of variables in a psychological study include two things. What are they?
variable and how measured/define
In a test, the mean is 40 and the standard deviation is 10. What percentage scored above 50?
16%
What was the goal of functionalism, and who was its founder?
Identify the function and purpose of behavior
William James
What field in psychology has the largest number of doctorates and what do they do?
Clinical
Treat psychological disorders
When the mean is higher than the median in a distribution it is said to be ______________.
positively skewed
In the following scenario pick out the dependent and independent variables. A researcher randomly assigns boys and girls to two groups. One group watches a violent cartoon the other group watches a non-violent cartoon. The children were then observed during a period of free play. The incidents of aggression were recorded for each group.
Dependent – incidents of aggressive behavior; Independent – type of television program viewed.
Using the following set of scores, calculate the mode and the mean
10, 20, 30, 40, 40, 50, 60
mode = 40
mean = 35.7