PSYC 1001 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Which of the following questions would be of most interest to a psychologist influenced
by Freud?
A: On what characteristics do people differ, how do we measure those characteristics
and why are these characteristics important?B: How do people think about, remember,
reason and represent the world?
C: What are the environmental contingencies that shape behavior?
D: What unconscious conflicts is this patient experiencing? - Answer -Correct: What
unconscious conflicts is this patient experiencing?
What type of psychologists are trained to perform assessments and conduct research
on people with mental disorders?
A: clinical psychologists
B: biological psychologists
C: experimental psychologists
D: industrial organizational psychologists - Answer -Correct: clinical psychologists
William James is considered a founding father of psychology because....?
A: He defined questions that have dominated psychology ever since.
B: He founded the first laboratory doing psychology work.
C: He was the first president of the American Psychological Society.
D: He emphasized the unconscious determinants of behavior. - Answer -Correct: Not C
Going to the Mall of America for an hour each day for two weeks to record interactions
between teenaged shoppers at Urban Outfitters would be an example of which research
method?
A: Naturalistic observation
B: Experiment
C: Case study
D: Survey - Answer -Correct: Naturalistic Observation
Dr. Jacobsen is investigating the link between social support networks and grades in
school. Students in his classes are required to complete survey forms related to this
research; however they are never told about the purpose of the survey. In this case,
some researchers might argue that Dr. Jacobsen's research violates the ethical
principle of...
A: full disclosure.
B: right to privacy.
C: protection from harm.
,D: informed consent. - Answer -Correct: Informed consent
In his research, John is trying to evaluate the quality of writing on 800 blogs. He has
decided to define "quality" as the number of comments that each blog receives. So the
more comments a blog receives, the higher John rates its quality. In psychology, the
way that John has decided to measure quality is called ____________________.
A: the operational definition
B: the hypothesis
C: the independent variable
D: the psychological construct - Answer -Correct: The operational definition
Marcus visits a career planning website multiple times to complete a quiz to help him
choose a career that fits with his personality. But, while he always gets the same score,
the results seem vague and don't match what Marcus knows about his personality traits.
He suspects there are problems with the quiz's _____________.
A: generalizability
B: operational definition
C: reliability
D: validity - Answer -Correct: Validity
This simplest measure of variability is the...
A: mode.
B: mean.
C: range.
D: standard deviation. - Answer -Correct: Range
Scientific thinking--an orderly, systematic sequence of steps that checks the validity of
arguments and considers alternate explanations--is an example of what Daniel
Kahneman refers to as ___________________________.
A: system 1 thinking
B: heuristic thinking
C: system 2 thinking
D: rational thinking - Answer -Correct: System 2 thinking
You have been told that the average height of Psy 1001 students is 5'7". But the only
Psy 1001 student you know personally is Alan who is 6'5" tall. Thus you assume the
average height of Psy 1001 students must be wrong. What lesson from statistics have
you failed to remember?
A: You can't make inferences about groups based on an individual observation.
B: "correlation does not equal causation"
C: "birds of a feather flock together"
, D: Be careful making inferences about individuals based on their group membership. -
Answer -Correct: You can't make inferences about groups based on an individual
observation.
A drug that INCREASES the effectiveness of a neurotransmitter by increasing receptor
site activity is known as ________________.
A: an antagonist
B: a synaptic enhancer
C: a selective re-uptake inhibitor
D: an agonist - Answer -Correct: An agonist
Animals are studied in Biological Psychology because __________________.
A: animals are cheaper than human participants
B: researchers don't have to deal with ethical constraints
C: animals can provide a simplified model of human behavior
D: the behavior of animals replicates the relationship between the human nervous
system and human behavior - Answer -Correct: Not A or D
Wernicke's area is found primarily in the _______________ suggesting that
understanding speech is a form of object recognition.
A: temporal lobe
B: prefrontal cortex
C: occipital lobe
D: parietal lobe - Answer -Correct: Occipital lobe
A researcher will choose to use the correlational method when
_____________________________.
A: the behavior can be observed in real-world settings without trying to manipulate the
situation
B: investigating a question in great detail
C: seeking cause and effect relationships
D: the variables of interest cannot be manipulated - Answer -Correct: the variables of
interest cannot be manipulated
When two variables are linked and their individual effects cannot be separated out, we
speak of the variables as being...
A: independent variables.
B: dependent variables.
C: codependent variables.
D: confounded variables. - Answer -Correct: Cofounded variables
Which of the following questions would be of most interest to a psychologist influenced
by Freud?
A: On what characteristics do people differ, how do we measure those characteristics
and why are these characteristics important?B: How do people think about, remember,
reason and represent the world?
C: What are the environmental contingencies that shape behavior?
D: What unconscious conflicts is this patient experiencing? - Answer -Correct: What
unconscious conflicts is this patient experiencing?
What type of psychologists are trained to perform assessments and conduct research
on people with mental disorders?
A: clinical psychologists
B: biological psychologists
C: experimental psychologists
D: industrial organizational psychologists - Answer -Correct: clinical psychologists
William James is considered a founding father of psychology because....?
A: He defined questions that have dominated psychology ever since.
B: He founded the first laboratory doing psychology work.
C: He was the first president of the American Psychological Society.
D: He emphasized the unconscious determinants of behavior. - Answer -Correct: Not C
Going to the Mall of America for an hour each day for two weeks to record interactions
between teenaged shoppers at Urban Outfitters would be an example of which research
method?
A: Naturalistic observation
B: Experiment
C: Case study
D: Survey - Answer -Correct: Naturalistic Observation
Dr. Jacobsen is investigating the link between social support networks and grades in
school. Students in his classes are required to complete survey forms related to this
research; however they are never told about the purpose of the survey. In this case,
some researchers might argue that Dr. Jacobsen's research violates the ethical
principle of...
A: full disclosure.
B: right to privacy.
C: protection from harm.
,D: informed consent. - Answer -Correct: Informed consent
In his research, John is trying to evaluate the quality of writing on 800 blogs. He has
decided to define "quality" as the number of comments that each blog receives. So the
more comments a blog receives, the higher John rates its quality. In psychology, the
way that John has decided to measure quality is called ____________________.
A: the operational definition
B: the hypothesis
C: the independent variable
D: the psychological construct - Answer -Correct: The operational definition
Marcus visits a career planning website multiple times to complete a quiz to help him
choose a career that fits with his personality. But, while he always gets the same score,
the results seem vague and don't match what Marcus knows about his personality traits.
He suspects there are problems with the quiz's _____________.
A: generalizability
B: operational definition
C: reliability
D: validity - Answer -Correct: Validity
This simplest measure of variability is the...
A: mode.
B: mean.
C: range.
D: standard deviation. - Answer -Correct: Range
Scientific thinking--an orderly, systematic sequence of steps that checks the validity of
arguments and considers alternate explanations--is an example of what Daniel
Kahneman refers to as ___________________________.
A: system 1 thinking
B: heuristic thinking
C: system 2 thinking
D: rational thinking - Answer -Correct: System 2 thinking
You have been told that the average height of Psy 1001 students is 5'7". But the only
Psy 1001 student you know personally is Alan who is 6'5" tall. Thus you assume the
average height of Psy 1001 students must be wrong. What lesson from statistics have
you failed to remember?
A: You can't make inferences about groups based on an individual observation.
B: "correlation does not equal causation"
C: "birds of a feather flock together"
, D: Be careful making inferences about individuals based on their group membership. -
Answer -Correct: You can't make inferences about groups based on an individual
observation.
A drug that INCREASES the effectiveness of a neurotransmitter by increasing receptor
site activity is known as ________________.
A: an antagonist
B: a synaptic enhancer
C: a selective re-uptake inhibitor
D: an agonist - Answer -Correct: An agonist
Animals are studied in Biological Psychology because __________________.
A: animals are cheaper than human participants
B: researchers don't have to deal with ethical constraints
C: animals can provide a simplified model of human behavior
D: the behavior of animals replicates the relationship between the human nervous
system and human behavior - Answer -Correct: Not A or D
Wernicke's area is found primarily in the _______________ suggesting that
understanding speech is a form of object recognition.
A: temporal lobe
B: prefrontal cortex
C: occipital lobe
D: parietal lobe - Answer -Correct: Occipital lobe
A researcher will choose to use the correlational method when
_____________________________.
A: the behavior can be observed in real-world settings without trying to manipulate the
situation
B: investigating a question in great detail
C: seeking cause and effect relationships
D: the variables of interest cannot be manipulated - Answer -Correct: the variables of
interest cannot be manipulated
When two variables are linked and their individual effects cannot be separated out, we
speak of the variables as being...
A: independent variables.
B: dependent variables.
C: codependent variables.
D: confounded variables. - Answer -Correct: Cofounded variables
