Ch. 2 OO

Question 1

_______ is one of the main research options available to people want to do psychological research

Answer 1

Experiment

Question 2

Traditional Chinese medicine is more inclusive of _____ _____ ______ ____ _____ ____ than is orthodox western medicine.

Answer 2

Behavior, psychological states, emotions, spirituality, relationships, and livelihood

Question 3

The practices of astronomy physics chemistry and biology normally fell to evil these controversies over fundamentals that are endemic among psychologists why?

Answer 3

Social sciences involve research into areas that involve”grey” subject matter that is typically difficult to measure.

Question 4

What is a split brain patient

Answer 4

One whose nerves connecting each side of the brain had been cut

Question 5

The left hemisphere has been thought to be predominately involved with ____ ____

Answer 5

Analytical processes

Question 6

The left brain appears to process input in a ____ __

Answer 6

Sequential manner

Question 7

The right hemisphere is for certain ___ ___ a ___ ___, and processes information _______ and ______

Answer 7

Skills and musical abilities. Simultaneously. holistically

Question 8

Right hemisphere has a highly developed ____ _____

Answer 8

Oppositional capacity

Question 9

The term “oppositional” implies a capacity for _____

Answer 9

Posing or comparing perceptions schemas and engrams

Question 10

Define paradigm according to Kuhn.

Answer 10

Thomas Kuhn Paradigm

Question 11

____ _____ “the structure of scientific resolutions” introduces us to the concept of the _____.

Answer 11

Thomas Kuhn Paradigm

Question 12

A paradigm once established is not ___ ___

Answer 12

Quickly changed

Question 13

A paradigm is a _____ _____ and _____ shared by a scientific community and used by the community to define legitimate problems

Answer 13

Collection of achievements, concepts, and techniques

Question 14

A formerly a sociological perspective, is just now beginning to filter into the realm of science of psychology. What is this perspective called?

Answer 14

Sociocultural perspective

Question 15

Maslow, says science itself is unaware that it is a product of what?

Answer 15

Time and place and local culture.

Question 16

For placebos to work what is required?

Answer 16

Consciousness.

Question 17

What is often used in the control group of a drug study?

Answer 17

Placebos

Question 18

Acupuncture has been in continuous use in Asia for at least _____ years as one treatment method

Answer 18

2300

Question 19

Kuhn points out that the process of discovery begins with the awareness of an a what?

Answer 19

Anomaly

Question 20

Paracelsus a renaissance physician and founder of modern chemistry credited his understanding of science to what?

Answer 20

“wise-woman”

Question 21

Name the two research methodologies that have dominated the psychology field for the first 100 years.

Answer 21

The positivist/empirical approach & the constructionist phenomenological approach

Question 22

Which of the two early methodologies furthered by Lukoff would be most compatible with the quantitative method of research?

Answer 22

Constructivist\phenomenological

Question 23

Which experimental method i the best to solve problems on the biological level?

Answer 23

Drug testing

Question 24

What method of research can get psychologists of different perspectives use to bridge the gap among them?

Answer 24

Mixed methodology

Question 25

What does the qualitative format offer that the quantitative does not?

Answer 25

Levels of depth that are not obtainable in the quantitative.

Question 26

If a researcher has only academic knowledge about a particular culture, which method of research would be most advantageous?

Answer 26

A qualitative open ended questionnaire. Because the researcher is learning from those well-versed in the culture about the individuals being studied.

Question 27

What is positivism?

Answer 27

A system of thinking that bases knowledge solely on observable facts and rejects speculation.

Question 28

Ontological axiom of positivism.

Answer 28

There is a single reality.

Question 29

Epistemological axiom of positivism.

Answer 29

The knower and the known are independent

Question 30

Axiological axiom of positivism.

Answer 30

Inquiry is value free

Question 31

Axioms of generalizations of positivism.

Answer 31

Time–and context– free generalizations are impossible

Question 32

What do positivists believe about casual linkages

Answer 32

Positivists believe that there are real causes that are temporarily president to four simultaneous with effects

Question 33

In the euro american tradition, psychology belongs to that branch of philosophy closes to ethics and theology until when?

Answer 33

The mid 19th century.

Question 34

Experimental psychology was an invention of which german 19th-century psychologist?

Answer 34

Wilhelm Wundt

Question 35

Much of Wundt's work became what is known as sensation and perception research. What was this method called?

Answer 35

The experimental design

Question 36

In quantitative research what kind of questions are asked

Answer 36

Yes or no questions.

Question 37

Which methods are more appropriate for the use of research involving attachment oriented relationships.

Answer 37

Qualitative methods

Question 38

Which method involves numerical data

Answer 38

Quantitative methods

Question 39

_____ ______ is a central method of psychology that is applied in many fields

Answer 39

Experimental design

Question 40

Experimentation is always been of greatest use in those psychological problems in which _____ ____ ____

Answer 40

Physical variables dominate

Question 41

The effectiveness of an experiment has two main bases. What are they?

Answer 41

Experimental components and experimental validity

Question 42

The independent variable is the variable that the____ ____

Answer 42

Researcher manipulates

Question 43

This variable is predicted to have a casual effect on the relevant outcome measured. It is also known as the ____ ____

Answer 43

Independent variable

Question 44

The dependent variable is always the result is forthcoming from the____ ___

Answer 44

Independent variable

Question 45

A way of formulating a question and then coming up with a statement. This is also known as an educated guess.

Answer 45

Hypothesis

Question 46

This means that there will be no difference between groups after a particular treatment is completed

Answer 46

Null hypothesis

Question 47

That is defined by measurement and observation.

Answer 47

Empirical evidence

Question 48

What does tat stand for?

Answer 48

Thematic apperception test

Question 49

What is a rival hypothesis?

Answer 49

It states that the population parameter is different than the value of the population parameter in the null hypothesis. 

Question 50

What does sampling in an experiment attempt to do?

Answer 50

Make particular selections stand for the general population.

Question 51

What should a person conducting a study be sure to do when subjects are picked?

Answer 51

They must be selected to accurately represent the entire population of study

Question 52

What code was the first internationally recognized code of ethics regarding research on humans?

Answer 52

The nuremberg code

Question 53

What is it called when the subjects of an experiment cannot be randomly assigned roles in the experiment?

Answer 53

Quasi experimental design

Question 54

The technical term for unintentionally manipulating variables.

Answer 54

Confounding variables/compound/extraneous variables

Question 55

Scientism

Answer 55

Science worshiped as a religion

Question 56

What method of study does the case study fall under?

Answer 56

Qualitative