Chapter 1 Test

Question 1

What refers to our tenancy to perceive events as obvious or inevitable after the fact?

Answer 1

Hindsight bias

Question 2

As scientists, psychologists…?

Answer 2

are willing to ask questions and to reject claims that cannot be verified by research

Question 3

theory based predictions are called….?

Answer 3

Hypotheses

Question 4

Is correlation research a descriptive method used to describe behavior?

Answer 4

no

Question 5

For your survey, you need to establish a group of people who represent the country’s entire population. To do this, you will need to question a…? sample of the population.

Answer 5

representative

Question 6

what provides a visual representation of the direction and strength of a relationship between two variables?

Answer 6

scatterplot

Question 7

knowing that two events are correlated provides..?

Answer 7

a basis for prediction

Question 8

to explain behaviors and clarify cause and effect, psychologists use…?

Answer 8

experiments

Question 9

to test the effect of a new drug on depression, we randomly assign people to a control and experimental groups. those in the control group take a pill that contains no medications. this pill is a …?

Answer 9

placebo

Question 10

in a double blind procedure

Answer 10

neither the participants nor the researchers know who is in the experimental or control group.

Question 11

A researcher wants to determine whether noise level affects workers’ blood pressure. in one group, she varies the level of noise in the environment and records participants’ blood pressure. In this experiment, the level of noise is…?

Answer 11

Independent variable

Question 12

The laboratory environment is designed to…?

Answer 12

recreate psychological forces under controlled conditions.