PSYC 1010 Final Exam Questions and 100% Correct Answers

Correlation equals causation. TRUE/FALSE False Correlation: ice cream sales and robberies Causation: heat You are a horrible multitasker. True or False True -Your have to have 100% focus on something in order to fully comprehend it negative correlation indicates that one variable negatively impacts another. True or False False Negative correlation: "more is less" "less is more" (more smoking=less life) Positive correlation: "more is more" "less is more" (less sleep=less memory) The fallacy of positive instances is when we see things happening around us as exclusively positive. True or false False The fallacy of positive instances: The explanation for the majority of the popularity of conspiracies due to this inclination to ignore contrary evidence. In the presents of positive evidence critical thinking and reasoning can be easily ignored. When Psychologist do research they always take precautions such as getting informed consent from their patients, making sure these subjects are free from coercion, debriefing them, and maintaining confidentiality. They do all these to maintain one of the four most rules of ethnic reasoning: Do no harm Clever Hans was the nickname for the researcher who discovered the need for the double blind experiments. True of False False Claver Hans was the name of a horse who was picking up on the involuntary body cues of his trainer who could actually solve the math problems. These discover lead to the need for the double blind experiments. Double blind: both people (experimenter and subject) need to be unaware of what you are looking for In critical thinking, keeping an open mind refers to being open to ideas that support what you think, and being critical of those that do not (Because those people do not have an open mind). True or false False If you are willing to critically think about others ideas then you need to be willing to let others be critical of yours We use 100% of our brains. true or false True If we didn't we would not be able to function