PSYC 210 Exam Questions with CORRECT Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1:
Does the logic of decreasing the chances of a decision error applied to all sample-tests
Answer:
Yes the logic of decreasing chances of decision errors applies to all tests whether the standard
deviation is known or not
Question 2:
What is Psychology the study of
Answer:
Behavior and mental processes
Question 3:
In early psychological study what was the mind thought of as
Answer:
Separate entity of the body and associated with the soul.
Question 4:
What did William James write in his book (1890)
Answer:
Psychology is the Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and their conditions
Question 5:
What does the scientific method consist of according to Heiman
Answer:
Assumptions, procedures and goals for creating and answering questions.
Question 6:
Description - what happened? Explanation - Why did it happen? Prediction - what will happen next?
Control - How to make it happen
,Answer:
What are the four goals of science
Question 7:
If our explanation is correct, if we manipulate the causes what should happen?
Answer:
Produce changes in behaviour/ phenomena
Question 8:
What are the four approaches to understanding?
Answer:
Authority approach Rule approach Analogy Approach Empirical approach
Question 9:
What is the authority approach to understanding
Answer:
seeking knowledge from sources thought to be reliable and valid Advantage: allows us to assimilate
existing knowledge Caution: don't follow blindly; a need to evaluate critically
Question 10:
What is the analogy approach
Answer:
analogy between some new event and a more familiar understandable event Problem: open to a
number of interpretations
Question 11:
What is the rule approach
Answer:
: try to establish laws or rules that cover a variety of different observations Advantage: can save time
and effort Disadvantage: it followed blindly can also threaten advancement of understanding
Theories, models and hypotheses are tied to the rule approach In science, rules do not stand alone but
, are used with observation to gain further understanding
Question 12:
What is the empirical approach
Answer:
Testing ideas against actual events
Question 13:
What is a hypothesis
Answer:
Any idea or tentative guest Psychology: Formally stated expectation about a behaviour.
Question 14:
What are the two main criteria for hypothesis testing that must be met.
Answer:
A hypothesis must be falsifiable: Test can show hypothesis is incorrect. (Rather than proving ideas to
be true, we have to prove them to be false) A hypothesis Must be testable: Can devise a test for a
hypothesis
Question 15:
What happens to hypothesis' in the long term
Answer:
Always on probation and subject to constant testing.
Question 16:
What happens when a hypothesis is not shown to be false?
Answer:
We say the theory giving rise to the hypothesis is confirmed *Does not mean true, just means still not
falsified and we can be a bit more confident about it.
Question 17:
Question 1:
Does the logic of decreasing the chances of a decision error applied to all sample-tests
Answer:
Yes the logic of decreasing chances of decision errors applies to all tests whether the standard
deviation is known or not
Question 2:
What is Psychology the study of
Answer:
Behavior and mental processes
Question 3:
In early psychological study what was the mind thought of as
Answer:
Separate entity of the body and associated with the soul.
Question 4:
What did William James write in his book (1890)
Answer:
Psychology is the Science of Mental Life, both of its phenomena and their conditions
Question 5:
What does the scientific method consist of according to Heiman
Answer:
Assumptions, procedures and goals for creating and answering questions.
Question 6:
Description - what happened? Explanation - Why did it happen? Prediction - what will happen next?
Control - How to make it happen
,Answer:
What are the four goals of science
Question 7:
If our explanation is correct, if we manipulate the causes what should happen?
Answer:
Produce changes in behaviour/ phenomena
Question 8:
What are the four approaches to understanding?
Answer:
Authority approach Rule approach Analogy Approach Empirical approach
Question 9:
What is the authority approach to understanding
Answer:
seeking knowledge from sources thought to be reliable and valid Advantage: allows us to assimilate
existing knowledge Caution: don't follow blindly; a need to evaluate critically
Question 10:
What is the analogy approach
Answer:
analogy between some new event and a more familiar understandable event Problem: open to a
number of interpretations
Question 11:
What is the rule approach
Answer:
: try to establish laws or rules that cover a variety of different observations Advantage: can save time
and effort Disadvantage: it followed blindly can also threaten advancement of understanding
Theories, models and hypotheses are tied to the rule approach In science, rules do not stand alone but
, are used with observation to gain further understanding
Question 12:
What is the empirical approach
Answer:
Testing ideas against actual events
Question 13:
What is a hypothesis
Answer:
Any idea or tentative guest Psychology: Formally stated expectation about a behaviour.
Question 14:
What are the two main criteria for hypothesis testing that must be met.
Answer:
A hypothesis must be falsifiable: Test can show hypothesis is incorrect. (Rather than proving ideas to
be true, we have to prove them to be false) A hypothesis Must be testable: Can devise a test for a
hypothesis
Question 15:
What happens to hypothesis' in the long term
Answer:
Always on probation and subject to constant testing.
Question 16:
What happens when a hypothesis is not shown to be false?
Answer:
We say the theory giving rise to the hypothesis is confirmed *Does not mean true, just means still not
falsified and we can be a bit more confident about it.
Question 17:
