PSYC302 EXAM PREP FULL QUESTIONS
AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Goals of psychological science
Answer: Describe: improve understanding of a phenomenon through
systemic observation
Predict: using observed relationships to predict outcomes
Explain: determining the cause
●● The difference between predict and explanatory research
Answer: how to predict better and more accurate without actually caring
about the reasoning why behind it, explanative is wanting to know the
why
●● Descriptive research question:
Answer: What is the age distribution at which toddlers first produce two-
word utterances in a community sample?
●● Predictive research question:
Answer: Predict kindergarten readiness scores from preschool measures
(language skills, executive function tasks, parent reports, and classroom
observations).
,●● Explanative research question
Answer: Why do people slow down when they're distracted?
●● Basic Research
Answer: achieving a more detailed understanding of phenomenon,
knowledge for knowledge's sake
●● applied research
Answer: direction applied to real world problem, solving immediate
issues
●● intuition
Answer: relying on instincts or emotions rather than facts
●● authority
Answer: accepting ideas because an expert(partent, doctor goverment)
says so
●● tenacity
Answer: refusing to alter acquired knowledge despite evidence to the
contrary (bigotry, habit) still believing what you think you know is true
even when you provided with evidence to the contrary
, ●● rationalism
Answer: using logic and reasoning
●● Problem of Falsifiability: Freud
Answer: There is no way to prove him wrong and his hypothesis
You are unable to study unconscious conflict, cannot quantify the data,
immeasurable, not scientific in any way
●● The Popperian Criterion
Answer: for a theory to be scientific it must be falsifiable, we must be
able tp imagine an observation that would show the theory is false
●● Problem of the challenge of psychology
Answer: often studies things that we cannot see directly like love,
aggression, hunger, memory, intelligence
●● Solution of the challenge of psychology
Answer: using operational definitions: of defining a construct in terms of
specific observable measures
●● Psychology uses...
Answer: systematic empiricism
AND CORRECT ANSWERS GRADED A+
●● Goals of psychological science
Answer: Describe: improve understanding of a phenomenon through
systemic observation
Predict: using observed relationships to predict outcomes
Explain: determining the cause
●● The difference between predict and explanatory research
Answer: how to predict better and more accurate without actually caring
about the reasoning why behind it, explanative is wanting to know the
why
●● Descriptive research question:
Answer: What is the age distribution at which toddlers first produce two-
word utterances in a community sample?
●● Predictive research question:
Answer: Predict kindergarten readiness scores from preschool measures
(language skills, executive function tasks, parent reports, and classroom
observations).
,●● Explanative research question
Answer: Why do people slow down when they're distracted?
●● Basic Research
Answer: achieving a more detailed understanding of phenomenon,
knowledge for knowledge's sake
●● applied research
Answer: direction applied to real world problem, solving immediate
issues
●● intuition
Answer: relying on instincts or emotions rather than facts
●● authority
Answer: accepting ideas because an expert(partent, doctor goverment)
says so
●● tenacity
Answer: refusing to alter acquired knowledge despite evidence to the
contrary (bigotry, habit) still believing what you think you know is true
even when you provided with evidence to the contrary
, ●● rationalism
Answer: using logic and reasoning
●● Problem of Falsifiability: Freud
Answer: There is no way to prove him wrong and his hypothesis
You are unable to study unconscious conflict, cannot quantify the data,
immeasurable, not scientific in any way
●● The Popperian Criterion
Answer: for a theory to be scientific it must be falsifiable, we must be
able tp imagine an observation that would show the theory is false
●● Problem of the challenge of psychology
Answer: often studies things that we cannot see directly like love,
aggression, hunger, memory, intelligence
●● Solution of the challenge of psychology
Answer: using operational definitions: of defining a construct in terms of
specific observable measures
●● Psychology uses...
Answer: systematic empiricism
