Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Today women receive ________ of the PhD's granted in psychology.

Evolutionary psychologists see the human mind as a "general purpose" computer that requires software (experience) to process information.

Titchener broke experience down into ________ basic elements.

A scientist decides to solve a problem by collecting data through careful systematic observation, developing theories, making predictions based on those theories, and systematically testing those predictions. The scientist is using ________.

F. Skinner is associated with ________.

Although the American Psychological Association had drawn up a code for ethical behavior in 1953, the issue of ethics was raised again in 1963 when ________.

Feminist psychology has had little impact on most facets of psychological practice.

Psychodynamic theory is most closely associated with ________.

The name Pavlov gave to his method for training his dogs was reinforcement.

A group of psychologists conduct research on basic psychological processes, including learning, memory, sensation, perception, thinking, motivation, and emotion. They are most likely to be ________ psychologists.

A psychologist studying pilot trainees picks a select group of trainees who are hopefully representative of all other trainees. The group of trainees being studied by this psychologist is collectively known to researchers as a ________.

A researcher, interested in how children interact with each other, goes to a school playground and unobtrusively takes notes as she watches them over a period of several hours. This researcher is using the ________ method of research.

A scientist, conducting a research study on sleep and learning, questions her own objectivity and decides to let a third person, not associated with conducting the experiment, score the tests. The scientist is probably trying to eliminate ________ bias.

A researcher goes to great lengths to ensure that the proportion of males and females in his study matches the proportion of males and females nationally. He is selecting a ________ sample.

Personality theories contending that personality results from various psychological forces that interact within the individual, often outside the conscious awareness of the individual, are ________ theories.

When applied to perception, "Gestalt" refers to our tendency to respond to primitive sexual urges.

________ are interested in the workings of the brain and the nervous system.

Jean Piaget's observations of his three children formed the basis of his theories of childhood development. This is an example of the ________ method of research.

________ is well-known for his studies on obedience.

Watson's experiment with Little Albert demonstrated that ________.