Question 1

Who claimed that behavior is affected by reinforcement?

Accepted Answer

A)   William James
B)   Sigmund Freud
C)   B. F. Skinner
D)   Wilhelm WundtE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 2

__________ was an early proponent of functionalism.

Accepted Answer

A)   Ivan Pavlov
B)   William James
C)   Wilhelm Wundt
D)   Max WertheimerE) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 3

A negative correlation means that high values of one variable are associated with low values of the other.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

A psychologist is interested in finding out why married couples seemingly begin to look like each other after several years of marriage. This psychologist is most interested in the goal of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   explanation
B)   description
C)   prediction
D)   controlE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 5

Mr. McCarthy hired Anya to collect data from a group of subjects. Neither Anya nor the subjects were aware of the independent variable that Mr. McCarthy had manipulated. This is an example of __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   randomization
B)   a placebo
C)   double-blind control
D)   experimenter biasE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 6

"There is no life outside this solar system and nothing you can say will change that fact!" Which criterion of critical thinking does this person lack?

Accepted Answer

A)   Evidence is only necessary if it can be tested.
B)   All evidence is not equal in quality.
C)   Authority or expertise does not make the claims of the authority or expert true.
D)   Critical thinking requires an open mind.E) A) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

Titchener was a member of the __________ school of thought.

Accepted Answer

A)   structuralist
B)   functionalist
C)   behaviorist
D)   reductionistE) B) and C)
F) None of the above

Question 8

How are psychologists and psychiatrists alike? How are they different?

Accepted Answer

Psychologists and psychiatrists are both...

Question 9

The goals of psychology are to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   explore the conscious and unconscious functions of the human mind
B)   understand, compare, and analyze human behavior
C)   improve psychological well-being in all individuals from birth until death
D)   describe, explain, predict, and control behaviorE) B) and C)
F) A) and D)

Question 10

The school of behaviorism attempted to explain behavior by studying __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the reasons people give for their behaviors
B)   the specific personality traits that lead to behavior
C)   how a specific stimulus evokes a specific response
D)   the purposes of people's behaviorE) C) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 11

In a laboratory, smokers are asked to "drive" using a computerized driving simulator equipped with a stick shift and a gas pedal. The object is to maximize the distance covered by driving as fast as possible on a winding road while avoiding rear-end collisions. Some of the participants smoke a real cigarette immediately before climbing into the driver's seat. Others smoke a fake cigarette without nicotine. You are interested in comparing how many collisions the two groups have. In this study, the independent variable is the __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   use of nicotine
B)   use of a driving simulator
C)   number of collisions
D)   driving skills of each driverE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 12

The question "Why is it happening?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?

Accepted Answer

A)   description
B)   explanation
C)   prediction
D)   controlE) None of the above
F) B) and C)

Question 13

The magazine Desperate Wives publishes a survey of its female readers called "The Sex Life of the American Wife." It reports that 87 percent of all wives like to make love in rubber boots. The critical flaw in this research would be the fact that __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   the sample is not representative of American wives
B)   a psychological test, rather than a survey, should have been given
C)   rubber boots are not equally available in all regions of the country
D)   making love has not been operationally definedE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 14

What is operationalization?

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Question 15

B. F. Skinner is most closely associated with which school of psychology?

Accepted Answer

A)   cognitive
B)   humanistic
C)   functionalism
D)   behaviorismE) B) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 16

Early in psychology's history, research participants might have been asked to view a chair and describe its color, shape, and texture and other aspects of their conscious experience. These individuals would have been using a method called __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   hypnosis
B)   objective introspection
C)   psychosurgery
D)   psychoanalysisE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 17

A(n)  __________ is a measure of how strongly two variables are related to one another.

Accepted Answer

A)   independent variable
B)   dependent variable
C)   experimental effect
D)   correlationE) A) and D)
F) B) and D)

Question 18

Wundt is to structuralism as __________ is to psychoanalysis.

Accepted Answer

A)   Freud
B)   Watson
C)   Rogers
D)   MaslowE) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

Question 19

In a controlled experiment, the group not subjected to a change in the independent variable, and used for comparison with the group receiving the experimental change, is the __________ group.

Accepted Answer

A)   independent
B)   experimental
C)   dependent
D)   controlE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 20

One of the main reasons for using a laboratory for psychological research is to __________.

Accepted Answer

A)   prevent subjects from escaping
B)   study behavior in a natural setting
C)   do large-scale studies
D)   allow the researchers to control certain factorsE) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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