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RESEARCH METHODS
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
MEMORY
PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
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In a study of effects of alcohol on driving ability, the control group should be given...
No alcohol at all.
100
When a gene is __________, the trait it controls will be present every time the gene is present.
Dominant
100
There is a strong relationship between dating frequency and physical attractiveness...
For females
100
Things that are heard are held as a brief __________ in the sensory register.
Echo
100
A common form of mental disorder afflicting 10-20% of the population is...
Depression.
200
A study to determine the degree of relationship between two events is called...
The correlational method.
200
The three basic emotions which appear to be unlearned but take time to develop are...
Anger, fear, joy.
200
The study in which college students attached a bumper sticker for a militant black organization to their cars and then received frequent traffic citations demonstrates...
Discrimination.
200
The part of the brain that functions as a "switching station" between the STM and LTM is the...
Hippocampus
200
The Freudian explanation of anxiety disorders emphasizes...
Forbidden impulses that threaten a loss of control.
300
A teacher believes that one group of children is very bright and that a second is below average in ability. Actually, the groups are identical, but the first group progresses more rapidly than the second. This demonstrates...
The self-fulfilling prophecy.
300
During the formal operations stage, children begin to...
Think in terms of abstract principles and hypothetical possibilities.
300
During the Stanford Prison study,...
Guards readily assumed their roles as agents of force.
300
Helen has a six-month "gap" in her memories of grade school. Her "gap" corresponds to the period immediately after her father's death. Helen's memory loss is most likely accounted for by...
Repression
300
The famous ruling that led to the present day plea of "not guilty by reason of insanity" is the...
M'Naghten rule.
400
A researcher determines that the crime rate in a large city fluctuates with the phases of the moon. He concludes that the gravitational pull of the moon influences human behavior. He has committed what error?
He incorrectly inferred causation from correlation.
400
When we say a child's thinking is less abstract than an adult's, we mean that...
Children use fewer generalizations, categories, and principles.
400
You are walking into a store when a man rudely cuts in front of you, almost shoving you, so that he may enter the store first. "What a jerk!" you think to yourself. As you enter the store, you see the same man performing an emergency tracheotomy on a women with a collapsed windpipe. You have just...
Made the fundamental attribution error.
400
An intelligence test for adults frequently has a general knowledge section which tests for...
Semantic memory
400
In some countries, it is normal to defecate or urinate in public. This makes it clear that judgments of the normality of behavior are...
Culturally relative.
500
Research on the benefit of aspirin to prevent heart attacks used only male subjects in the sample. Both men and women are given this advice. The problem with this recommendation reflects...
gender bias.
500
Solomon Asch's classic experiment (in which subjects judged a standard line and comparison lines) was arranged to test the limits of...
Conformity
500
Remembering the first and last items of a list better than items in the middle is due to...
The serial position effect.
500
Carson recently lost his job and has a great debt accumulated from gambling. He also has been feeling extreme pressure about not being able to take care of his eight children. After having too much to drink, Carson ran over a child crossing the street. Immediately following this episode, Carson could not remember who he was. This example illustrates...
Dissociative amnesia.