PSYC 100 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Comparative Psychology, Habituation, Reinforcement
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• Lessons One & Two:
1. Rationalism is to _____________as empiricism is to ______.
a) logic; observation
b) analysis; measurement
c) analysis; science
d) logic; function
2. The concept of natural selection is most important for psychologists interested in
the _____________________ of behaviour.
a) Functions
b) Variation
c) Limitations
d) Structure
3. Which of the of the following is NOT true:
a) Structuralists are interested in the 'what' question
b) Psychologists use natural selection to inform their understanding of
behaviour
c) Psychologists use introspection to study phenomenon
d) Functionalists are interested in the 'why' question
4. Is Psychology most closely related to:
a) Chemistry
b) Biology
c) Sociology
d) Philosophy
5. Structuralism is to __________ as functionalism is to __________.
a) elements of consciousness; purpose of consciousness
b) consciousness; memory
c) introspection; consequences of behaviour
d) unobservable behaviour; consciousness
6. Through their research on human responses to physical stimuli, both Helmholtz
and Fechner contributed to the beginning of:
a) Rationalism
b) comparative psychology
c) psychophysics
d) materialism
7. Which is most accurate:
a) Psychologists study mental processes and behaviour
b) Psychologists study animal behaviour
c) Psychologists study human behaviour
d) Psychologists study the psyche
8. Which of the following approaches to psychology was most likely to reject the
idea that mental events are an appropriate subject matter for study in psychology?
a) cognitive psychology
b) structuralism
c) empiricism
d) functionalism
9. If psychology can be defined as the science of behaviour and the mind, why are
the data in psychology always drawn from behaviour?
a) All of the others
b) Behaviour can be influenced by the environment but the mind cannot
c) Behaviour can be observed the mind cannot
d) Behaviour can be influenced by physiology but the mind cannot.
10. Psychology arose in the nineteenth century from developments in a number of
areas, primarily:
a) Culture and philosophy
b) Philosophy and religion
c) Science and medicine
d) Science and philosophy
11. In psychological research, the term generalization refers to:
a) how significant the results of the statistical analysis are
b) concluding that the results obtained from a sample can also be applied
to the larger population
c) adding the results from one study to those from other studies
d) obtaining a broad understanding of how different variables are related to
each other
12. Suppose a researcher finds a correlation between the amount of time university
students spend on Facebook (variable A) and the students grades (variable B).
The researcher can reasonably conclude:
a) that variable A influences variable B
b) none of the above
c) that variable B influences variable A
d) that some unknown variable is affecting variable A and variable B
13. The first step of the scientific method specifies that a researcher:
a) design the study
b) formulate a hypothesis
c) determine the subjects he/she would like to use in the experiment
d) collect the data for the study
14. A researcher has two groups of subjects- one that has been taught a memory aid
and one that has not. Both groups are asked to learn a list of 20 nouns in two
minutes, and both are then given a recall test. What is the independent variable?
a) the amount of time participants took to complete the recall test
b) participants' scores on the recall test
c) the number of words
d) whether or not the participants have been taught the memory aid
15. Only __________ involve the manipulation of independent variables
a) studies using naturalistic observation
b) case studies
c) correlational studies
d) experiments
16. Minor deception may be permitted in research providing there is __________ and
__________.
a) no confounding; information is confidential
b) monetary remuneration; prior informed consent
c) no foreseeable harm; there is a full debriefing
d) prior informed consent; no foreseeable harm
17. Dr. Lemieux wants to determine if a group of participants reading on computer
screens will read more pages of text in one hour than a group of participants
reading on paper. She assigns students sitting at the front of the class to be in the
"computer" condition and students at the back of the class to be in the "paper"
condition. In this experiment seating location is:
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