PSY 2012 TEST BANK UPDATED QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS FULL STUDY SHEET
●● levels of analysis
Answer: The differing complementary views, from biological to
psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon
●● Multiply Determined
Answer: all human actions are produced by many factors
●● Individual Differences
Answer: People differ from eachother in thinking, emotion, personality
and behavior. explains why we all respond in different ways to the same
objective situation
●● Naive Realism
Answer: the belief that we see the world precisely as it is
●● Scientific theory
Answer: an explanation for a large number of findings in the natural
world
●● Confirmation bias
,Answer: tendency to seek out evidence that supports our beliefs and
deny, dismiss, or distort evidence that contradicts them
●● Belief Perseverance
Answer: the tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even though evidence
contradicts them
●● Metaphysical Claims
Answer: assertions about the world that we cant test (g-d, the soul, after
life)
●● Psuedoscience
Answer: a set of claims that seem scientific but arent. (lacks the
safegyards against bias)
●● Ad Hoc Immunizing Hypotheses
Answer: escape hatch or loophole that defenders of a theory use to
protect their theory from falsification
●● Apophenia
Answer: perceiving meaningful connections among unrelated and even
random phenomenon (attributing paranormal significance to
coincidences)
, ●● Pareidolia
Answer: seeing meaningful images in meaningless visual stimuli
●● Terror Management Theory
Answer: theory proposing that our awareness of our death leaves us with
an underlying sense of terror which we cope by adopting reassuring
cultural worldviews
●● Scientific Skepticism
Answer: approach of evaluating all claims with an open mind but
insisting on persuasive evidence before accepting them
●● Critical Thinking
Answer: set of skills for evaluating all claims in an open-minded and
careful fashion
●● Correlation-causation fallacy
Answer: error of assuming that because one thing is associated with
another, it must cause the other
●● Variable
Answer: anything that can vary
AND ANSWERS FULL STUDY SHEET
●● levels of analysis
Answer: The differing complementary views, from biological to
psychological to social-cultural, for analyzing any given phenomenon
●● Multiply Determined
Answer: all human actions are produced by many factors
●● Individual Differences
Answer: People differ from eachother in thinking, emotion, personality
and behavior. explains why we all respond in different ways to the same
objective situation
●● Naive Realism
Answer: the belief that we see the world precisely as it is
●● Scientific theory
Answer: an explanation for a large number of findings in the natural
world
●● Confirmation bias
,Answer: tendency to seek out evidence that supports our beliefs and
deny, dismiss, or distort evidence that contradicts them
●● Belief Perseverance
Answer: the tendency to stick to our initial beliefs even though evidence
contradicts them
●● Metaphysical Claims
Answer: assertions about the world that we cant test (g-d, the soul, after
life)
●● Psuedoscience
Answer: a set of claims that seem scientific but arent. (lacks the
safegyards against bias)
●● Ad Hoc Immunizing Hypotheses
Answer: escape hatch or loophole that defenders of a theory use to
protect their theory from falsification
●● Apophenia
Answer: perceiving meaningful connections among unrelated and even
random phenomenon (attributing paranormal significance to
coincidences)
, ●● Pareidolia
Answer: seeing meaningful images in meaningless visual stimuli
●● Terror Management Theory
Answer: theory proposing that our awareness of our death leaves us with
an underlying sense of terror which we cope by adopting reassuring
cultural worldviews
●● Scientific Skepticism
Answer: approach of evaluating all claims with an open mind but
insisting on persuasive evidence before accepting them
●● Critical Thinking
Answer: set of skills for evaluating all claims in an open-minded and
careful fashion
●● Correlation-causation fallacy
Answer: error of assuming that because one thing is associated with
another, it must cause the other
●● Variable
Answer: anything that can vary
