Psychology 1000 Exam questions
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Psychologist - ANS✅✅Describes someone whose career involves predicting behavior.
Neuro/Bio Psychologist - ANS✅✅Someone who monitors nervous system reactions from events or
drugs.
Cognitive Psychologist - ANS✅✅Someone who studies how people process information.
Developmental Psychologist - ANS✅✅Someone who views how people change and develop over
time.
Personality Psychologist - ANS✅✅Observes how we respond to people, how we grow and change
from situations, and how we behave in a constant way.
Social Psychologist - ANS✅✅Observes how people should act in certain situations, how people
around you act and set expectations.
Cultural Psychology - ANS✅✅How culture and traditions grow and vary over time.
School Psychologist - ANS✅✅Helps with academic performance and is there as a counselor.
Industrial/Organizational (IO) Psychologist - ANS✅✅Works in corporations to improve efficiency
and act as a counselor to workers.
Hindsight bias - ANS✅✅knowing of signs of something but not able to predict future event
Confirmation bias - ANS✅✅selective sampling of information. Placing great importance on
evidence that supports your beliefs
self serving bias - ANS✅✅failing to accurately judge source credibility, seeing relationships that
don't exist
,John B. Watson - ANS✅✅-Learned "Determinism" perspective on behavior.
-Found there is no relationship between brain Myelinization and learning ability.
-Wrote the Behaviorist Manifesto
-Showed there is relationship between behavior and response
-Stated that psychological disorders can be treated by changing behavior
Extrasensory Perception - ANS✅✅The ability to look into another's mind.
Scientific Inquiry - ANS✅✅-What is the evidence?
-Where did the evidence come from?
-How was the research done?
Why is it important to detect myths? - ANS✅✅-Psychological myths can be harmful
-Can cause indirect damage
-Acceptance of myths can impede our critical thinking in other areas
Scientific Method - ANS✅✅A systematic and objective approach to answer research questions
-Theory, Hypothesis, Research, Support/fail to support the theory
What are the steps to the scientific method? - ANS✅✅Form a hypothesis, conduct a literature
review, design a study, conduct the study, analyze the data, report the results
Operation definition - ANS✅✅a definition that qualifies and quantifies a variable so the variable
can be understood objectively
Case Study - ANS✅✅method that involves the intensive examination of an unusual person or
organization
participant observation - ANS✅✅a type of descriptive study in which the researcher is involved in
the situation
, naturalistic observation - ANS✅✅a type of study in which the researcher is a passive observer,
separated from the situation and making no attempt to change the behavior
self report method - ANS✅✅surveys or questionnaires, gather data from a large number of people
Parsimony - ANS✅✅The simplest version to look at things
Variable - ANS✅✅Something in the world that can vary and that a research can measure
Correlational Studies - ANS✅✅How variables are naturally related to each other in the real world
Directionality Problem - ANS✅✅Which variable caused changes in the other variable?
Third-Variable Problem - ANS✅✅Does another unmeasured variable cause another to change?
Illusory Correlation - ANS✅✅Perception of correlation when non exists
Independent Variable - ANS✅✅The variable that is manipulated
Dependent Variable - ANS✅✅The variable that is measured
Experimental group - ANS✅✅the participants in an experiments who receive treatment
Control group - ANS✅✅participants that receive no intervention or who receive an intervention
that is unrelated to the independent variable
Confound - ANS✅✅anything that affects a dependent variable and that may unintentionally vary
between the study's different experimental conditions
Representative sample - ANS✅✅population that accurately reflects the members of the entire
population. A representative sample should be an unbiased indication of what the population is like.
and answers graded A+
Psychologist - ANS✅✅Describes someone whose career involves predicting behavior.
Neuro/Bio Psychologist - ANS✅✅Someone who monitors nervous system reactions from events or
drugs.
Cognitive Psychologist - ANS✅✅Someone who studies how people process information.
Developmental Psychologist - ANS✅✅Someone who views how people change and develop over
time.
Personality Psychologist - ANS✅✅Observes how we respond to people, how we grow and change
from situations, and how we behave in a constant way.
Social Psychologist - ANS✅✅Observes how people should act in certain situations, how people
around you act and set expectations.
Cultural Psychology - ANS✅✅How culture and traditions grow and vary over time.
School Psychologist - ANS✅✅Helps with academic performance and is there as a counselor.
Industrial/Organizational (IO) Psychologist - ANS✅✅Works in corporations to improve efficiency
and act as a counselor to workers.
Hindsight bias - ANS✅✅knowing of signs of something but not able to predict future event
Confirmation bias - ANS✅✅selective sampling of information. Placing great importance on
evidence that supports your beliefs
self serving bias - ANS✅✅failing to accurately judge source credibility, seeing relationships that
don't exist
,John B. Watson - ANS✅✅-Learned "Determinism" perspective on behavior.
-Found there is no relationship between brain Myelinization and learning ability.
-Wrote the Behaviorist Manifesto
-Showed there is relationship between behavior and response
-Stated that psychological disorders can be treated by changing behavior
Extrasensory Perception - ANS✅✅The ability to look into another's mind.
Scientific Inquiry - ANS✅✅-What is the evidence?
-Where did the evidence come from?
-How was the research done?
Why is it important to detect myths? - ANS✅✅-Psychological myths can be harmful
-Can cause indirect damage
-Acceptance of myths can impede our critical thinking in other areas
Scientific Method - ANS✅✅A systematic and objective approach to answer research questions
-Theory, Hypothesis, Research, Support/fail to support the theory
What are the steps to the scientific method? - ANS✅✅Form a hypothesis, conduct a literature
review, design a study, conduct the study, analyze the data, report the results
Operation definition - ANS✅✅a definition that qualifies and quantifies a variable so the variable
can be understood objectively
Case Study - ANS✅✅method that involves the intensive examination of an unusual person or
organization
participant observation - ANS✅✅a type of descriptive study in which the researcher is involved in
the situation
, naturalistic observation - ANS✅✅a type of study in which the researcher is a passive observer,
separated from the situation and making no attempt to change the behavior
self report method - ANS✅✅surveys or questionnaires, gather data from a large number of people
Parsimony - ANS✅✅The simplest version to look at things
Variable - ANS✅✅Something in the world that can vary and that a research can measure
Correlational Studies - ANS✅✅How variables are naturally related to each other in the real world
Directionality Problem - ANS✅✅Which variable caused changes in the other variable?
Third-Variable Problem - ANS✅✅Does another unmeasured variable cause another to change?
Illusory Correlation - ANS✅✅Perception of correlation when non exists
Independent Variable - ANS✅✅The variable that is manipulated
Dependent Variable - ANS✅✅The variable that is measured
Experimental group - ANS✅✅the participants in an experiments who receive treatment
Control group - ANS✅✅participants that receive no intervention or who receive an intervention
that is unrelated to the independent variable
Confound - ANS✅✅anything that affects a dependent variable and that may unintentionally vary
between the study's different experimental conditions
Representative sample - ANS✅✅population that accurately reflects the members of the entire
population. A representative sample should be an unbiased indication of what the population is like.
