Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Experiments!
Lecture
100
____, _____, and _____ are the 3 earliest frameworks of psychology.
What is structuralism, functionalism, and behaviorism.
100
____ is an approach to evidence.
What is science.
100
The statement "correlation = causation" is true or false? Why?
What is false.
100
In an experiment the group that does not receive the manipulation is the ______.
What is control group.
100
_____ was a major theme of structuralism.
What is consciousness.
200
_____ is focused on internal psycholocial processes, especially impulses, thoughts, and memories of which we're unaware.
What is psychoanalysis.
200
_____ is a willingness to share findings with others.
What is communalism.
200
______ is the extent to which we can generalize our findings to a real world setting.
What is external validity.
200
When conducting an experiment examining blood pressure you give half of the participants a drug thought to decrease blood pressure and half the participants a sugar pill that has no effect on blood pressure. When you analyze the results you find that the individuals given the sugar pill showed a decrease in blood pressure. This phenomena is known as ______.
What is the placebo effect.
200
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" represents _____ psychology.
What is Gestalt.
300
_____ examines how the mind works, while _____ examines how to use what we find to solve real-world problems.
What is basic research and applied research.
300
"Don't confuse me with the facts" is a saying that explains ______.
What is belief perseverance.
300
Saying, "I knew the recipe was off" after the cake you are baking tastes bad is an example of _______.
What is hindsight bias.
300
When every person in the population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate in the study _____ has been utilized. This is very important for ______.
What is random selection and generalizability.
300
_______ and _______ are the 2 ways in which psuedoscience fails.
What is (1) it claims to possess truth while science holds that information is tentative; (2) it uses no objective method for testing ideas against evidence.
400
According to the text, the majority of psychologists work in ________.
What is universities and 4 year colleges.
400
A testable prediction derived from a theory is a _____.
What is hypothesis.
400
____ can work well most of the time, but they also may cause us to oversimplify reality.
What is heuristics.
400
You are conducting a study to understand whether gender has an effect on math scores on a standardized test for 5th grade students. In this study ____ is your independent variable and ____ is your dependent variable.
What is gender = IV and math score = DV.
400
______ occurs when we are 95% confident that the results of a study did not occur by chance.
What is statistical significance.
500
Believing that every measure titled "IQ test" is measuring the same thing is known as ______.
What is the jangle fallacy.
500
____, _____, _____, _____, ______, and _____ are the 6 basic principles of critical thinking. BONUS: Explain each principle.
What is extraordinary claims, falsifiability, occam's razor, replicability, ruling out rival hypotheses, correlation vs. causation.
500
The correlation that is the strongest out of: .21, -.78, and 0 is _____.
What is -.78.
500
True or false: Validity is necessary for Reliability. Explain.
What is False.
500
Define empirical investigation.
What is the asking of questions and collection of objective, sensory information rather than relying on secondhand information, faith, hope, speculation, or common sense.