PSYC 210 Exam Mental events can be broken down into their components Questions with
CORRECT Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1:
Structuralism
Answer:
Mental events can be broken down into their components (Wilhelm Wundt, 1879)
Question 2:
4 goals of science
Answer:
Description, explanation, prediction, control
Question 3:
Approaches to understanding
Answer:
Authority approach, analogy approach, rule approach, empirical approach
Question 4:
Authority approach: -Definition -Advantage -Caution
Answer:
-Seeking knowledge from sources thought to be reliable and valid. -Allows us to assimilate exisiting
knowledge. -Don't follow blindly; a need to evaluate critically.
Question 5:
Analogy approach: -Definition -Problem
Answer:
-Analogy between some new event and a more familiar understandable event -Open to numerous
interpretations
Question 6:
Rule approach: -Definition -Advantage -Disadvantage
,Answer:
-Try to establish laws or rules that cover a variety of different observations -Can save time and effort
-If followed blindly, can also threaten the advancement of understanding
Question 7:
Empirical approach: -Definition -Psychology
Answer:
-Testing ideas against actual events using random selection and equal samples and conditions
-Observing behaviours and drawing conclusions
Question 8:
What does good science consist of?
Answer:
Several observations, random sample, dependent variables, controlled extraneous variables that
might affect DV, use of stats to analyze results, no bias/hidden agenda.
Question 9:
Hypothesis
Answer:
An idea or tentative guess so experiment has the best evidence/procedures. Must be testable and
falsifiable. When it is not shown to be false i.e. confirmed at this point, it doesn't necessarily mean it is
true. They are always on probation and subject to testing.
Question 10:
Which goals of science are for correlated research?
Answer:
Description, prediction
Question 11:
Which goals of science are for experimental research?
Answer:
, Experiment, control
Question 12:
When a task is so easy that all the scores are very high
Answer:
Ceiling effect
Question 13:
When the task is so difficult that all the scores are very low
Answer:
Floor effect
Question 14:
What are the different scales of measurement?
Answer:
Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio (NOIR)
Question 15:
What is nominal scale?
Answer:
Categorising without ordering e.g. female=1, male=2
Question 16:
What is ordinal scale?
Answer:
Categorises and orders e.g. rugby team standings
Question 17:
What is interval scale?
Answer:
Categorises, orders and establishes an equal unit of measurement in the scale e.g. temperature
CORRECT Answers (Grade A+)
Question 1:
Structuralism
Answer:
Mental events can be broken down into their components (Wilhelm Wundt, 1879)
Question 2:
4 goals of science
Answer:
Description, explanation, prediction, control
Question 3:
Approaches to understanding
Answer:
Authority approach, analogy approach, rule approach, empirical approach
Question 4:
Authority approach: -Definition -Advantage -Caution
Answer:
-Seeking knowledge from sources thought to be reliable and valid. -Allows us to assimilate exisiting
knowledge. -Don't follow blindly; a need to evaluate critically.
Question 5:
Analogy approach: -Definition -Problem
Answer:
-Analogy between some new event and a more familiar understandable event -Open to numerous
interpretations
Question 6:
Rule approach: -Definition -Advantage -Disadvantage
,Answer:
-Try to establish laws or rules that cover a variety of different observations -Can save time and effort
-If followed blindly, can also threaten the advancement of understanding
Question 7:
Empirical approach: -Definition -Psychology
Answer:
-Testing ideas against actual events using random selection and equal samples and conditions
-Observing behaviours and drawing conclusions
Question 8:
What does good science consist of?
Answer:
Several observations, random sample, dependent variables, controlled extraneous variables that
might affect DV, use of stats to analyze results, no bias/hidden agenda.
Question 9:
Hypothesis
Answer:
An idea or tentative guess so experiment has the best evidence/procedures. Must be testable and
falsifiable. When it is not shown to be false i.e. confirmed at this point, it doesn't necessarily mean it is
true. They are always on probation and subject to testing.
Question 10:
Which goals of science are for correlated research?
Answer:
Description, prediction
Question 11:
Which goals of science are for experimental research?
Answer:
, Experiment, control
Question 12:
When a task is so easy that all the scores are very high
Answer:
Ceiling effect
Question 13:
When the task is so difficult that all the scores are very low
Answer:
Floor effect
Question 14:
What are the different scales of measurement?
Answer:
Nominal Ordinal Interval Ratio (NOIR)
Question 15:
What is nominal scale?
Answer:
Categorising without ordering e.g. female=1, male=2
Question 16:
What is ordinal scale?
Answer:
Categorises and orders e.g. rugby team standings
Question 17:
What is interval scale?
Answer:
Categorises, orders and establishes an equal unit of measurement in the scale e.g. temperature
