History and Perspectives of Psychology Test Flashcards
The descriptive statistic that indicates the most common score in distribution is the:
mode.
Which type of research is most likely to reveal true cause-and-effect relationships?
experimental
Which of the following types of psychologist is least likely to provide mental health assessment or treatment?
Industrial-Organizational
A cognitive psychologist would be interested in:
language, problem-solving, and other mental processes.
Which measure of central tendency would be most appropriate to use to describe the most common diagnosis clients receiving treatment at an outpatient mental heath clinic?
Mode
What statistic is produced when the difference between a score and the mean is divided by the standard deviation?
Z-score
Which mental health specialist is an M.D. who can prescribe medications?
A psychiatrist
______ is used to help prevent research subjects from knowing received the treatment.
A placebo
Which psychological perspective is concerned with how the unconscious conflicts and drives thought and behavior?
Psychodynamic
In an experiment studying the effects lack of sleep has on memory, where the subject’s score is reordered on memory scale, the subject’s score serves as the:
dependent variable.
An independent variable:
is changed or controlled by the researcher.
According to ________, observable, measurable actions are more important than inferred mental processes.
behavioral
Proponents of the __________ perspective would be most likely to attribute mental disorders to structural or functional problems in the brain and nervous system.
biological
If neither the researcher nor the research participants knows who has receive the treatment, the experiment is said to be ________.
double blind
_______ psychologist might be employed as a consultant to a large manufacturing company is devising ways to reduce employee turnover.
An industrial-organizational
