Psychology 201 Midterm Exam With Well Detailed Question & Answers Perfectly A+ Graded New Update

Psychology 201 Midterm Exam With Well Detailed
Question & Answers Perfectly A+ Graded New Update




What are the goals of Psychology? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>To describe, explain,
predict and influence behavior



What is structuralism? (CH 1 ) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>An early school of psychology
that focused on breaking mental activity down into its most basic elements. Associated with
Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Tischener.



What is Psychoanalysis? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>An early school of psychology
that focused on how our unconscious sexual and aggressive feelings affect our actions and
relationships. Associated with Sigmund Freud.



What is Behaviorism? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>An early school of psychology
that focused on observable behavior rather than emotions or consciousness. Associated with
Ivan Pavlov, John Watson and BF Skinner.



What are the steps to the scientific method? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>-
developing a question

-creating a hypothesis

,-collecting/analyzing data

-reporting results



What is the difference between a theory and a hypothesis? (CH 1) CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>A hypothesis is a specific prediction (educated guess) and a theory attempts to
integrate and summarize a number of findings.



What are descriptive research methods? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Descriptive
methods try to answer the "who, what, where, when, and how" of psychological topics.



What are advantages of naturalistic research? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>This type
of study captures behavior in the natural environment and can be used to study behaviors that
would be unethical to expose people to intentionally.



What is a case study? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>A case study is an in-depth
collection of different types of information about a single person or a small group of people.
Usually used with rare conditions.



What are the advantages of a survey? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Surveys are
helpful in collecting a large amount of data relatively easily.



What is meta-analysis? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>A statistical technique that
combines and analyzes results from many different studies on one topic.



What is correlation? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>A statistical method to determine
how strongly two variables are related to each other. Just because two things are correlated
does not prove that one causes the other.

, What is the experimental method? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>A research design
model that is used to test for cause and effect relationships. One variable is manipulated to see
if it causes change in another variable.



What is the independent variable? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>The variable that the
researcher changes, manipulates or controls.

MIX --> Manipulated, Independent, X-axis



What is the dependent variable? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>The variable that the
researcher measures for change or outcome.

DRY--> Dependent, Responding, Y-axis



What is the control group? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>The control group is the
group of research participants do not receive the independent variable. They are exposed to
every aspect of the study except the treatment variable, to see if the change is really caused by
the independent variable.



What are extraneous variables? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Unwanted or
uncontrolled variables that can influence the outcome of the study.



What is Autism Spectrum Disorder? (CH 1) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>A developmental
disorder that usually involves impairment in language and social skills, and a tendency toward
repetitive behaviors.



What is the action potential? (CH 2) CORRECT ANSWER>>>>A brief electrical impulse
that transmits information along the axon of a neuron.