Psychology 111 BYU Exam 1 Questions
With Correct Answers
Hindsight Bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Knew-it-all-along effect after
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something happens |
Overconfidence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-We all tend to think we know
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more than we do.
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Three main components of the scientific attitude - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Curiosity, Empirical Approach, Humility | | |
Critical Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Thinking that does not blindly
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accept arguments and conclusions- examines assumptions, discerns
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hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
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Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Testable prediction
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Operational Definition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Statement of procedure
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used to define research variables
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,Replication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-increases the reliability, thus
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validity of results | |
Case Study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-study design that documents a
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unique condition in a patient in hopes to reveal universal principles
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Survey - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A technique derived from self-reported
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attitudes or behaviors of a particular group
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Naturalistic Observation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-subject, within its
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natural habitat, is observed without any variable manipulation
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Scatter Plots and Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Cluster of dots to
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represent two variables. Correlation- relationship to each other.
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Correlation and Causation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-correlation does not
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imply causation.
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Illusory Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Perceiving a correlation
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between variables if the relationship is nonexistent
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Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Researchers can isolate cause and
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effect. Researcher controls part of it.
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, Independent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-variable the
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experimenter manipulates |
Dependent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-what the researcher is
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measuring. Dependent on the changing of the independent variable.
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Experimental Group - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Group exposed to
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treatment in experiment. | |
Control Group - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-group that is not given anything
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in order to test if the treatment actually works
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Placebo Effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-where a fake treatment
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improves a patient's health? Where a subject's health improves because
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|he/she believes the drug (the placebo typically being a sugar pill) will
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improve his/her health.
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Random Assignment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Assigning people to
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experiment and control groups by chance.| | | | |
Double-Blind Procedure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Neither the subject(s)
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or the experimenter(s) know what treatment is being received/given.
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With Correct Answers
Hindsight Bias - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Knew-it-all-along effect after
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something happens |
Overconfidence - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-We all tend to think we know
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more than we do.
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Three main components of the scientific attitude - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Curiosity, Empirical Approach, Humility | | |
Critical Thinking - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Thinking that does not blindly
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accept arguments and conclusions- examines assumptions, discerns
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hidden values, evaluates evidence, and assesses conclusions.
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Hypothesis - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Testable prediction
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Operational Definition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Statement of procedure
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used to define research variables
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,Replication - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-increases the reliability, thus
| | | | | | |
validity of results | |
Case Study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-study design that documents a
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unique condition in a patient in hopes to reveal universal principles
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Survey - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A technique derived from self-reported
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attitudes or behaviors of a particular group
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Naturalistic Observation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-subject, within its
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natural habitat, is observed without any variable manipulation
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Scatter Plots and Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Cluster of dots to
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represent two variables. Correlation- relationship to each other.
| | | | | | |
Correlation and Causation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-correlation does not
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imply causation.
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Illusory Correlation - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Perceiving a correlation
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between variables if the relationship is nonexistent
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Experiment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Researchers can isolate cause and
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effect. Researcher controls part of it.
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, Independent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-variable the
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experimenter manipulates |
Dependent Variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-what the researcher is
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measuring. Dependent on the changing of the independent variable.
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Experimental Group - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Group exposed to
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treatment in experiment. | |
Control Group - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-group that is not given anything
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in order to test if the treatment actually works
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Placebo Effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-where a fake treatment
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improves a patient's health? Where a subject's health improves because
| | | | | | | | |
|he/she believes the drug (the placebo typically being a sugar pill) will
| | | | | | | | | | | |
improve his/her health.
| |
Random Assignment - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Assigning people to
| | | | | | |
experiment and control groups by chance.| | | | |
Double-Blind Procedure - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Neither the subject(s)
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or the experimenter(s) know what treatment is being received/given.
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