PSYCH Exam Study

________ is a perspective within psychology that emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans

Which of the following psychologists was a behaviorist?

Lucy wants to study changes in cognitive skills, moral reasoning, and social behavior across the lifespan. Lucy should specialize in ________ psychology.

Behaviorists study ________.

Susan wants to study prejudice, attraction, how we explain our own behavior versus how we explain the behavior of others, and how we resolve interpersonal conflicts. Susan should conduct research in the area of ________.

Which kind of psychologist would be consulted in jury selection and witness preparation?

Determine whether this is a correlational study, experimental study, or quasi-experimental study.

A researcher is interested in determining whether states’ rankings in education are related to their rankings in efforts to clean up the environment believing that states ranked higher in education will also be ranked higher in environmental efforts. She collects information on states’ education and environmental effort rankings.

The ________ is controlled by the experimenter.

Identify the type of study in this scenario.

A researcher is interested in determining whether hormonal changes that accompany pregnancy are related to happiness in marital relationships. He asks husbands to identify what stage of pregnancy their wives are in and to rate the happiness of their marriages.

A sample that ________ is most likely to yield generalizable results.

Which of the following research designs will allow cause-and-effect conclusions?

Identify the independent variable in this research scenario.

A researcher is interested in determining whether humor helps in fighting illness. She goes to a local hospital and pairs people according to illness. One person in each pair watches an hour of stand-up comedy every day. The other person in each pair does not. She then compares how long it takes each person to recover.

Research on ________ subjects must always involve ________.

Identify the type of study in this scenario.

A researcher is interested in determining whether golfers swear more than tennis players. She goes to a fancy-pants club that has a golf course and tennis courts, sits around the tennis courts and the 15th hole, and counts the number of times she hears cursing in each location.

A major advantage of case studies is ________.

A(n) ________ is conducted in order to determine whether there are meaningful differences between two groups in a study.

Patwardhan et al. report data from a study where they hired experimental confederates to attend speed dating events, posing as daters, and carefully take notes on the behaviors of the daters. What type of research design did they use?

Drs. Goran and Lieberman are interested in assessing differences in pain threshold between men and women. They recruit male and female participants to a study that assesses tolerance for thermal pain. This is an example of a(n) ________ study.

T'Challa is about to throw down with M'Baku. T'Challa's heart rate increases and his pupils dilate. Which part of his nervous system is responsible for this reaction?

The ________ is involved in our experience of emotion and tying emotional meaning to our memories.

A particular electrical signal being transmitted to a neuron is sufficient to generate an action potential. If the magnitude of the incoming electrical signal is doubled, the action potential will ________.

The ________ nervous system is responsible for responses such as pupil dilation, increased heart rate, and increased respiration.

Nakia says that she can taste colors and see odors. Which part of Nakia's brain is likely to be responsible for this mixup?

Which of the following senses is not routed through the thalamus?