Exam 1: Introducing Psychology

The use of chance, such as flipping a coin, to assign subjects to the experimental and control groups is called __________.

A memory aid that links new information to ideas or images that are easy to remember is called a

Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow belong to which school of thought in psychology?

From her studies of chimpanzees in the wild in Tanzania, Jane Goodall showed that humans are not the only tool-making animals. In discovering this information, Jane Goodall used which type of research method?

A researcher determines that the crime rate in a large city is related to the phases of the moon. She concludes that the gravitational pull of the moon influences human behavior. She does not understand

Research participants are said to be assigned randomly when

At least ten testimonials or case examples are required in order to validate the claim of a product or treatment.

Psychoanalytic psychology emphasizes free-will, self-actualization, and the self-image.

Tina is taking part in an experiment, and is assigned to the group that receives the independent variable. Tina is in the __________ group.

A psychologist finds that most of the juvenile delinquents at the facility where he counsels have parents who are smokers. If he concludes that parental smoking is the reason for these teens' behavior and poor choices, then he has

If you accept the challenge of reflecting on what you read, the words in your textbook will be considered "live words," which means

Important terms in the psychology textbook are defined in the lower right-hand corner of the pages in each module with these definitions referred to as a running __________.

The best way to prepare for short-answer tests is to overlearn the details of the course and to pay special attention to lists of related terms.

An advertisement promising to "unlock your hidden potential in just two hours!" should be suspect because

A powerful way to be more reflective is to pause to evaluate, compare, analyze, critique, and synthesize what one is reading, which is referred to as __________ thinking.

If you see your mother in the kitchen crying and incorrectly assume she is upset when her tears are really due to peeling an onion, you have failed to distinguish between __________ and inference.

In order to carefully control conditions and confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis about the causes of behavior, one must

Abraham Maslow developed the school of thought in psychology known as structuralism.

A formal trial undertaken to confirm or disconfirm a hypothesis about the cause of behavior is called a(n)

Milgram's study of obedience to authority, where subjects thought they were shocking another subject, raised questions about which two ethical concerns?