PSYCHOLOGY 13TH EDITION
Author: DAVID G. MYERS NATHAN C. DEWALL
,TABLE OF CONTENTS
Prologue The Story Of Psychology
Thinking Critically With Psychological Science
The Biology Of Mind
Consciousness And The Two-Track Mind Nature,
Nurture, And Human Diversity Developing Through
The Life Span Sensation And Perception
Learning
Memory
Thinking And Language
Intelligence
What Drives Us: Hunger, Sex, Friendship, And Achievement Emotions, Stress, And
Health
Social Psychology Personality
Psychological Disorders
Therapy
,Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1: THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Indicate The Answer Choice That Best Completes The Statement Or Answers The Question.
If Results Are Statistically Significant But Have A Small Effect Size, The
Results May Lack Practical Significance.
Lack A Cause-Effect Relationship.
Represent A Negative Relationship.
Represent A Neutral Relationship.
In One Study, Introductory Psychology Students Were Fitted With Electronically Activated Recorders So That
Researchers Could Sample Their Daily Activities. The Researchers Were Employing A Scientific Method Known As
Naturalistic Observation.
The Double-Blind
Procedure.
Experimentation.
The Case Study.
Studies Conducted In The Late 1990s In Which The Researcher Concluded That Children Who Were Administeredthe MMR
Vaccination Developed Autism Were
Withheld From The Public Intentionally.
Accurate.
Never Published By Academic Journals.
Discovered To Be Fraudulent.
Seven Members Of A Boys' Club Reported The Following Individual Earnings From Their Sale Of Cookies: $2, $9,
$8, $10, $4, $9, And $7. In This Distribution Of Individual
Earnings The Median Is Greater Than The Mean And Greater
Than The Mode. The Median Is Less Than The Mean And
Less Than The Mode.
The Median Is Greater Than The Mean And Less Than The
Mode. The Median Is Less Than The Mean And Greater
Than The Mode.
Professor Valetta Believes That Identical Twins Have Similar Levels Of Intelligence Largely Because They
Sharecommon Genes. His Idea Is Best Described As A(N)
Theory.
Replication.
Naturalistic Observation.
Operational Definition.
The Idea That "People's Emotions And Personal Beliefs Often Override Their Acceptance Of Objective
Facts" Is Expressed In The Dictionary Definition Of
False
News.
Post-Truth.
, Powerful
Examples.
Repetition.