Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

When applied to perception, Gestalt refers to ________.

Each of the following is described by your text as a benefit of psychology except ________.

Explain what case studies are and how they are useful to psychologists. What are the major advantages and disadvantages of this type of research?

Freud was formally trained as a ________.

A psychologist studying child abuse discovered that parents who abuse their children were frequently mistreated themselves by their parents when they were younger. This approach to gaining knowledge is most like which of the following social science methods of research?

Two groups of people are given different kinds of practice problems in logic. They are then tested on a set of new problems to determine whether one kind of practice was better than the other. The nature of the practice problems is the ________ variable.

In Watson's famous experiments with Little Albert, he taught Albert to fear a ________.

Until the beginning of the 20^th century, the primary method of collecting data in psychology was ________.

According to Freud, much of our behavior is controlled by ________.

Clinical psychologists are concerned with everyday problems of adjustment.

The field of psychology that is concerned with the biological origins of behaviors and mental processes, their adaptive value and the purposes they continue to serve is ________ psychology.

A famous student of Wundt's, who later became the leader of American psychology as a professor at Cornell University, was ________.

A biased sample attempts to select subjects in proportions equal to their actual proportions within the community.

Titchener broke experience down into ________ basic elements.

________ psychologists tend to see the mind as having "psychological circuits" so that human beings are predisposed to act in certain ways.

Positive psychologists argue that psychology should abandon its focus on healing abnormal behavior and instead focus on "wellness."

Ivan Pavlov is known for his experiments on the conditioning of dogs.

The study of Internet users discussed in the text found that heavier users of the Internet showed ________ in self-reported feelings of loneliness and depression.

Most Americans participate in a number of subcultures.

Each of the following is a strategy described in the text for questioning assumptions and examining data except ________.