PY 101 Exam 1 - UAB
How did early philosophers influence what we know today as psychology? -
correct answer ✔
How can psychology be defined? What is the goal? - correct answer
✔Psychology is the science of mind and behavior. The goal is to scientifically
understand the relationship between mind and behavior.
Empiricism - correct answer ✔the idea that knowledge comes from
experience
Structuralism/Introspection - correct answer ✔
Functionalism - correct answer ✔a school of psychology that focused on how
mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to
adapt, survive, and flourish.
Be able to determine what is experimental and what is correlational research
from examples - correct answer ✔
What is a correlation? - correct answer ✔relationship between two variables
How can we determine the strength of a correlation? What makes it strong?
What makes it weak? - correct answer ✔a) the strength can be determined
by the the coefficient from -1 to +1
b)
, What is a spurious correlation? - correct answer ✔when two things seem to
be correlated but they are not
Hypothesis - correct answer ✔a testable prediction
Independent and Dependent variables - correct answer ✔Independent
variable is what is being changed, dependent variable is the result of the
independent variable
Occam's Razor. Be able to apply it to an example. - correct answer ✔no
more assumptions should be made than are necessary. ruling out far fetched
hypotheses
Clever Hans. Why did it appear that he could do math? - correct answer
✔because he would stamp his foot the correct number of times and people
thought he could do math when in reality he was responding to a signal
Why is random assignment useful for experimental research? - correct
answer ✔ensures that participants in a cause and effect study are unbiased
Populations vs Samples - correct answer ✔
Mean, Median, Mode - correct answer ✔3 measures of central tendency
When is the Mode most useful? - correct answer ✔
Normal distributions - correct answer ✔
How did early philosophers influence what we know today as psychology? -
correct answer ✔
How can psychology be defined? What is the goal? - correct answer
✔Psychology is the science of mind and behavior. The goal is to scientifically
understand the relationship between mind and behavior.
Empiricism - correct answer ✔the idea that knowledge comes from
experience
Structuralism/Introspection - correct answer ✔
Functionalism - correct answer ✔a school of psychology that focused on how
mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable the organism to
adapt, survive, and flourish.
Be able to determine what is experimental and what is correlational research
from examples - correct answer ✔
What is a correlation? - correct answer ✔relationship between two variables
How can we determine the strength of a correlation? What makes it strong?
What makes it weak? - correct answer ✔a) the strength can be determined
by the the coefficient from -1 to +1
b)
, What is a spurious correlation? - correct answer ✔when two things seem to
be correlated but they are not
Hypothesis - correct answer ✔a testable prediction
Independent and Dependent variables - correct answer ✔Independent
variable is what is being changed, dependent variable is the result of the
independent variable
Occam's Razor. Be able to apply it to an example. - correct answer ✔no
more assumptions should be made than are necessary. ruling out far fetched
hypotheses
Clever Hans. Why did it appear that he could do math? - correct answer
✔because he would stamp his foot the correct number of times and people
thought he could do math when in reality he was responding to a signal
Why is random assignment useful for experimental research? - correct
answer ✔ensures that participants in a cause and effect study are unbiased
Populations vs Samples - correct answer ✔
Mean, Median, Mode - correct answer ✔3 measures of central tendency
When is the Mode most useful? - correct answer ✔
Normal distributions - correct answer ✔
