Question 1

Theory building is important in psychology because it

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A)   prevents excessive reliance on empiricism.
B)   reduces the need for hypothesis testing.
C)   relies heavily on naturalistic observation.
D)   provides explanations and guides future research.

Question 2

You go to Africa to study elephants.You follow one particular group, and one day you observe the other members of the group gather around a sick and dying elephant.The healthy elephants shuffle and trumpet and act in an agitated manner.You conclude that they are sad because one of their members is dying.Without any other evidence, you have just

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A)   committed the anthropomorphic error.
B)   become involved in the observer effect.
C)   engaged in research participant bias.
D)   created an empirical fallacy.

Question 3

Because reports in the popular media tend to be made uncritically and with a definite bias toward reporting "astonishing" findings and telling interesting stories, a critical reader must be __________.

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Question 4

Which of the following psychologists would most often engage in basic research?​

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A)   ​social
B)   ​medical
C)   ​community
D)   ​school

Question 5

In an experiment to study the effects of study skills training on academic achievement, the study skills training would be the __________ variable.

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A)   dependent
B)   extraneous
C)   control
D)   independent

Question 6

Which of the following fields is considered to be a superstition?

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A)   astrology
B)   psychoanalysis
C)   structuralism
D)   humanism

Question 7

Psychologists study which of the following topics?

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A)   ​love and sexuality
B)   memory, learning, and creativity
C)   aging and death
D)   all of these

Question 8

Which of the following psychologists wrote an influential book on animal behavior, titled The Animal Mind, and was also the first woman to be awarded a Ph.D.in psychology?

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A)   Margaret Washburn
B)   Francis Sumner
C)   Inez Beverly Prosser
D)   Jane Goodall

Question 9

Zoologist Christian Rutz and his colleagues outfitted shy New Caledonian crows with "crow cams" to better understand their use of tools to forage for food.Dr.Rutz and his colleagues were using the critter cams to minimize the observer effect in which type of research method?

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A)   correlational study
B)   case study
C)   ​naturalistic observation
D)   ​clinical method

Question 10

The control group and the experimental group are treated exactly the same EXCEPT for the __________ variable.

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A)   dependent
B)   independent
C)   extraneous
D)   replication

Question 11

Which of the following is the best example of covert behavior?

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A)   blinking in response to a light
B)   imitating a friend's gesture
C)   remembering a pleasant experience
D)   rapid eye movements while sleeping

Question 12

Which of the following notable events in psychology occurred LAST?

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A)   The American Psychological Association was founded.
B)   Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams.
C)   Carl Rogers published Counseling and Psychotherapy.
D)   The first American psychology lab was founded at Johns Hopkins.

Question 13

Which of the following statements about B.F.Skinner is FALSE?

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A)   Skinner believed that it is important to consider mental events, such as thinking, in explaining why a certain behavior occurs.
B)   Skinner developed an operant conditioning chamber that bears his name.
C)   Skinner believed that misguided rewards led to destructive actions that created problems, such as overpopulation, pollution, and war.
D)   Skinner disliked the use of punishment because it does not teach correct responses.

Question 14

One of the reasons for the inaccuracy of eyewitness testimony is that much of our thinking actually takes place in the part of the mind of which we are subjectively unaware and that is not open to introspection.This part of the mind is called the

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A)   ​cognitive unconscious.
B)   ​dissociative state.
C)   ​preconscious mind.
D)   ​alter ego.

Question 15

Regarding their research on weight loss, Conlon and his colleagues weighed the participants on a standard digital scale at the beginning of the weight-loss period and once every week until the program ended.This exact procedure being used to represent the participants' weights is referred to as the

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A)   ​operational definition.
B)   ​tentative theory.
C)   ​null hypothesis.
D)   ​contingent reinforcer.

Question 16

William James regarded consciousness as

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A)   connections between stimuli and responses.
B)   an ever-changing flow of images and sensations.
C)   being overshadowed by the unconscious mind.
D)   a set of building blocks to be analyzed through introspection.

Question 17

Which perspective focuses on subjective, conscious experience, human problems, potentials, and ideals and emphasizes one's self-image and self-actualization?

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A)   behaviorist
B)   humanistic
C)   psychodynamic
D)   cognitive

Question 18

The Gallup and Harris Polls, which are reports that contain the responses of several thousand people to questions such as how good a job is the president doing with foreign affairs, are both examples of the use of the

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A)   naturalistic observation technique.
B)   survey method.
C)   field experiment.
D)   curvilinear relationship hypothesis.

Question 19

You wish to find out if people throw away their trash after they eat inside a fast-food restaurant.Explain which nonexperimental research method would yield the BEST results, how it could be conducted to minimize bias, and why the other nonexperimental methods would not be good choices.

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Question 20

Subjects are said to be assigned randomly when

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A)   each subject is selected to participate in an experiment from a sample that is representative of the larger population.
B)   each subject has an equal chance of being assigned to either the experimental or control group.
C)   each subject is assigned to experimental and control groups in such a way that the groups differ on some critical variable before the experiment begins.
D)   neither the experimenter nor the subject knows whether the subject is in the experimental or control group.

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The Gallup and Harris Polls, which are reports that contain the responses of several thousand people to questions such as how good a job is the president doing with foreign affairs, are both examples of the use of the

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Regarding their research on weight loss, Conlon and his colleagues weighed the participants on a standard digital scale at the beginning of the weight-loss period and once every week until the program ended.This exact procedure being used to represent the participants' weights is referred to as the

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Because reports in the popular media tend to be made uncritically and with a definite bias toward reporting "astonishing" findings and telling interesting stories, a critical reader must be __________.

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Which of the following psychologists would most often engage in basic research?

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Which of the following statements about B.F.Skinner is FALSE?

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Which perspective focuses on subjective, conscious experience, human problems, potentials, and ideals and emphasizes one's self-image and self-actualization?

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