EXPE PSYCH Chapter 1 (Midterms)

Question 1

What is psychology?

Answer 1

science of behavior

Question 2

They rely on scientific methods when conducting psychological research, they are _______.

Answer 2

psychologists

Question 3

What is knowledge in Latin?

Answer 3

scientia

Question 4

What does science as a content mean?

Answer 4

The science that we know today, like the facts we learn in psychology.

Question 5

What does science as a process mean?

Answer 5

A process that includes systematic ways while gathering data

Question 6

Commonsense Psychology is what kind of data?

Answer 6

non scientific sources of data

Question 7

What is Commonsense Psychology?

Answer 7

a non scientific sources of data that shapes our expectations and beliefs and directs our behavior toward others

Question 8

Confirmation Bias is under sources of physical information. True or False?

Answer 8

True

Question 9

When information is offered by people we like, respect, or admire, is typically accepted without question

Answer 9

Either Confirmation Bias / Sources of physical information (much better if ang ianswer kay sources of physical information)

Question 10

What is/are inferential strategies?

Answer 10

are mathematical procedures that allow psychologists to make inferences about collected data

Question 11

These needs facts when conducting research and needs to be applied while using scientific method

Answer 11

Experimental Psychology

Question 12

What is scientific method?

Answer 12

Refers to steps in which scientists take to gather and verify information, and answer questions, explain relationships, and communicate findings

Question 13

What are the important characteristics of a scientific method?

Answer 13

the scientific mentality, gathering empirical data, seek general principles, good thinking, self-correction, publicize results, and replication

Question 14

What are the 3 main tools of scientific method?

Answer 14

observation, measurements, and experimentation

Question 15

What are antecedent conditions?

Answer 15

circumstances that before the event or behavior that we want to explain

Question 16

What is the purpose of comparing treatment conditions?

Answer 16

This is in order to test explanations of behaviors systematically and scientifically

Question 17

What are psychology experiments?

Answer 17

controlled procedure in which at least two different treatment conditions are applied to subjects

Question 18

These are three minimum requirements in conducting an experiment:

Answer 18

must have, procedures in manipulating the setting, predicted outcome must be observable, and must be able to measure the outcome

Question 19

What are experiments should be?

Answer 19

ethical, target participants should not be limited, and establish a cause and effect relationship

Question 20

Example of cause (independent variable)

Answer 20

eating heavy breakfast before taking a test

Question 21

Example of effect (dependent variable)

Answer 21

higher test scores

Question 22

These are two conditions that have to be in place so that one can be compared with the other

Answer 22

cause and effect

Question 23

What is hawthorne effect?

Answer 23

the alteration of behavior by the subjects of a study due to their awareness of being observed