Review Flashcards
Dr. Brown is interested in researching the role of the nervous system in a person’s experience of sexual jealousy. What type of researcher is Dr. Brown?
Behavioral neuroscientist
According to the book levels of analysis refers to
The type of casual process that is referred to in explaining some phenomenon
A psychologist attempts to understand the conditions in which people are more likely to go along with a decision of the group even when they know the group is wrong. Understanding the influence that other people have on an individual’s behavior is most consistent with a _____ level of analysis
Social
Pat is conducting a laboratory study on obedience. Pat is interested in how the proximity of authority figures contributes to the level of obedience. Pat’s field is most likely _____ psychology
Social
Pat is conducting a laboratory study on obedience. Pat is interested in how the proximity of authority figures contributes to the level of obedience. Pat’s field is most likely _____ psychology
Developmental
The belief that all behaviors are a result of involuntary reactions to stimuli in our environment is:
Reflexology
Nativism is:
the idea that some knowledge is inborn in the mind and does not have to be learned by experience.
the idea that some knowledge is inborn in the mind and does not have to be learned by experience.
Behavior can be observed but the mind cannot
Which type of psychologist would be interested in the number of teenagers who started smoking cigarettes due to their group of friends who are also smokers?
Social
After watching his infant son consistently reach for the largest of the three piles of marbles, Tyler begins to think that babies may possess an inborn quantitative understanding. His belief is most consistent with the philosophical view known as:
Nativism
Social psychology is the study of how the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of
Individuals are influenced by others
Colin argues with a colleague that one part of the brain controls anxious thoughts while another part controls the way they talk. What notion proposed in the nineteenth-century supports Colin’s argument?
Localization of function
The MOST direct way to test a hypothesis about a cause-effect relationship is through a(n):
Experiment
If the people receiving a particular experimental treatment alter their expectations because of their own beliefs about that treatment, one could conclude that:
there is subject-expectancy effect
Observer-expectancy effects can influence the
observer’s perceptions of the participant’s behavior
Alumni of university are sent a survey asking about their college experience and how their education prepared them for their career, and life in general. The university is using _____ as their method of data collection.
Self report
The standard deviation is a measure of:
Variability
Which statement is FALSE about correlational studies
Cause and effect are determined
Which example is a demonstration of naturalistic observation?
watching workers on an assembly line in a factory to see how they adjust to stressful situations
On several rainy days, Andrea distributes a questionnaire about mood to participants, but does not tell them about her research interest because she fears that calling attention to the rain will bias participants’ opinions about their mood. Keeping participants uninformed about the hypothesis of the study is also known as keeping them:
Blind
A researcher could be MOST confident that the research hypothesis was correct if there were _____ than a _____ percent chance that the data were due to chance and the research hypothesis was wrong
Less; 5
The mean and the median are both:
measures of the central tendency of a set of numbers.
Which concept is explicitly designed to help a researcher decide how much confidence to place in a specific, data-based conclusion
inferential statistics
A questionnaire used to measure childhood aggression asks the question “Does your child push others?” This is an example of
an operational definition
Long-term memory has a _____ capacity and a _____ duration.
High; long
Zion is trying to remember the name of his first-grade teacher. The transfer of information from Zion’s long-term memory to his working memory is called:
retrieval.
Judy is so focused on watching basketball players in white shirts pass the ball to one another that she does not see a gorilla in the room. This is an example of:
selective viewing.
What do elaboration, organization, and visualization all have in common?
They are all encoding strategies
In order to recite a poem Molly learned in grade school, she must retrieve it from her _____ memory and put it to use in her _____ memory
long-term; working
The strategy known as chunking increases memory efficiency by:
decreasing the number of items that must be remembered by increasing the amount of information in each item
In selective listening studies, most participants were able to identify the _____ of the message they were NOT attending to.
gender of the speaker.
Which area of the brain is MOST involved in the control of attention?
Frontal lobe
Which type of memory is NOT associated with a particular past experience?
Semantic
Two groups of participants briefly saw the silhouette of a tree. The silhouette shown to group A contained the outline of a duck, and the one shown to group B did not. All participants were then asked to draw a nature scene. The results indicated that participants who:
were shown the tree with the “hidden” duck did not consciously notice the duck but were more likely than the others to draw ducks or duck-related objects.
