WVU psychology 101 mid term

The definition of psychology is generally considered to be the

The study of _____ is the primary focus of psychology.

If you are curious as to why you feel pain when you place your hand near an open flame, you would likely find answers in the research of _____ psychologists.

Looking for the best ways to help people monitor and control their blood pressure through behavioral changes would be the concern of psychologists within which subfield?

One focus of social psychology would be

Marla notices that when she talks to men, her boyfriend becomes jealous. When the boyfriend talks to other women, Marla does not become jealous. Marla wonders if the difference is genetic. Her question would interest a(n) _____ psychologist.

The most recent employment surveys suggest that psychologists are least likely to be working in which setting?

Which of the following statements about psychologists is true?

When most psychology majors graduate from college, they enter

A psychologist who pursues a Psy.D. degree is most likely to be interested in

Early psychologists studied the mind by asking people to describe what they were experiencing when exposed to various stimuli. This procedure was known as

Both structuralism and functionalism emphasized the study of

The kind of psychology studied by William James was oriented to the way that people’s behavior allowed them to adapt to their environments. This approach to psychology is called

Knowing that you are taking a psychology course, your friend calls to tell you about a dream he recently had. He wants to know what you think his dream means and what it may reveal about his personality. You might encourage your friend to read research from the _____ perspective.

John B. Watson, an advocate of the behavioral perspective, believed that a person’s achievements depend most on:

Psychologists who accept the _____ model tend to look for the uniqueness of every individual.

Research by Bushman and Anderson has shown that people who play violent video games tend to

A teacher believes that one of her student’s aggressive behaviors may be due to his parents’ recent divorce and not to a genetic trait. The teacher’s thinking reflects the controversy of

A student wants to study love between married couples, but he cannot decide whether he should measure visible actions that reflect love or measure the couples’ motives to remain in love. His decision reflects the _____ controversy.

Your opinion about whether or not people with mental illness should be forced by governmental institutions to seek treatment may depend on your stance on the _____ issue.

Martique sends out a mass email to 100 friends, each of their email addresses visible, to ask them to sponsor her in a walk-a-thon. No one responds to her email or makes a donation. The _____ theory may provide an explanation of Martique’s unsuccessful request.

The hypothesis in a research study is defined as the

If you were to spend some time watching people in the checkout line of a local discount store to see how many read the tabloid newspapers displayed next to the register, you have chosen the __________ research method to answer your question.

A researcher wanted to use a relatively inexpensive way to test his hypothesis. Therefore, he examined existing data such as census documents, college records, and newspaper clippings. This type of research is known as:

The mathematical score that indicates how much two attributes are related to each other is called the

A positive correlation between two variables suggests that

In an experiment on the effects of light on reading speed, which of the following is the dependent variable?

The process of attempting to equate the experimental group and the control group before the beginning of an experiment is called

When a researcher reports that a study’s outcome was significant, this suggests that

Dr. Ling combines the results of 60 different studies on how sexual functioning is affected by alcohol consumption; her goal is to derive a single, general conclusion. Dr. Ling has performed a(n)

A researcher wants to make sure that her assistants did not give any hints regarding which participants are in which treatment groups and to make sure the participants did not know which group they were in. She should use (a):

Ethical guidelines for research on human participants require that prior to participating in a study, research participants are given all information that they will need to decide whether or not they want to be in the study. This requirement is known as

Compared with the general population, college students tend to

One advantage of using nonhuman animals in psychological research is that

A researcher uses a different tone of voice while speaking to groups of participants in a problem-solving study. She speaks encouragingly to students in a class for the gifted, and with a discouraging voice to a remedial class. This shows the experimental bias of

The purpose of using a placebo in research is to

The purpose of using double-blind procedures in research is to

In judging the quality of research, the assumptions behind the study should be known so that one can

When the researcher’s desire to see positive results influences the outcome, this is known as

Deception may be used in an experiment to overcome problems with