PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS AN
ANSWERS




Psychology c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔The cscientific cinvestigation cof cmental cprocesses cand cbehavio

Where cdid cpsychology cbranch cout cfrom? c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Physiology cand cPhilosophy

Structuralism c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Focused con cthe cstructure cof cconsciousness cand cthe cmind

2 cStructuralists c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Wundt cand cTitchener

Functionalism c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Focused con cthe cfunction cof cthe cmind cin chelping cpeople ca
cidentified cwith canymore)


2 cFunctionalists c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Darwin cand cJames

3 cBroad cways cof cunderstanding cpsychological cphenomena c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Theoretical cP
cMetaphors, cAccepted cMethods cof cObservation


Modern cPerspectives c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Psychodynamic, cBehaviorist, cCognitive, cEvolutionar

Psychodynamic c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔started cby cSigmund cFreud; ccase cstudies, cnot ceasy cto cte
csample csize


Behaviorist c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Ivan cPavlov cand cB.F. cSkinner; cmental cprocesses care cbyprod
cexperiment


Behaviorist cMetaphor c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔People care clike cmachines

, Clinical cPsychology c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Nature cand ctreatment cof cpsychological cprocesses cle

Cognitive cPsychology c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Nature cof cmental cprocess csuch cas cthought, cmemo

Personality cPsychology c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Enduring cpatterns cof cthought, cfeeling cand cbehav
cindividuals c(sub-discipline)


Theory c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Systematic cway cof corganizing cand cexplaining cobservations

Variable c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔changes cacross ccircumstance cor cvaries camong cindividuals

Hypothesis c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔a ctentative cbelief cor cguess cpredicting cor cexplaining cthe crelati
cvariables


Continuous cVariable c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔a cvariable crated cfrom cnone cto cmuch c(amount cof cva

Categorical cVariable c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔a cvariable crated cin cgroups cor ccategories c(definite ca

Standardized cProcedure c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔doing cthe csame cthing cwith ceach cparticipant cin ct
cprocedure cis cexplained)


Population c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔the cgroup cyou cwant cto cbe cable cto cgeneralize cto

Sample c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔the cgroup cparticipating cin cthe cexperiment

Generalizability c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔how cmuch cthe cfindings capply cto cyour cpopulation

Internal cValidity c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔the cmethods care cvalid

External cValidity c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔generalizable coutside cof cthe clab

Measure c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔a cconcrete cway cof cassessing ca cvariable

Reliability c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔produces cconsistent cresults

Test-Retest cReliability c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔being cable cto ctest cthe cparticipants cagain cover ctim
cresults


Internal cConsistency c(or creliability) c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔do call cof cthe citems cin ca ctest cmeasure

Interrater cReliability c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔do cdifferent cpeople crate cthe cbehaviors cin cthe csame c

Face cValidity c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔does cit clook clike cit cmeasures cwhat cit csays cit cmeasures c(so
cthis cto cbe clow)


Construct cValidity c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔does cit cmeasure cwhat cit cis csupposed cto

Criterion cValidity c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔does cit crelate cto cother cmeasures clike cit cshould

Error c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔the cpart cof ca cscore cthat cis cunrelated cto cthe cperson's ctrue cscore c(s
cinclined cin ccertain cthings cthat ccould caffect cthe cexperiment)


Descriptive cResearch ctypes c- cCORRECT cANS✔✔Case cStudies, cNaturalistic cObservation, cSurv
cCorrelational