PSYC 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Descriptive Statistics, Psychoanalysis, Psych

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

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Psych midterm practice test: the main difference between modern psychology and earlier attempts to understand the mind and behaviour is psychology"s use of ___________. Science: psychology became a scientific discipline in the 1600"s. False: psychoanalysis emphasizes the influence of unconscious urges and memories on behaviour. True: credit for establishing psychology as an independent field of science is generally given to william james. False: structuralism was an early psychological approach that emphasized the purpose of behaviour and consciousness. False: psychology has been a science since: 1800s, before beginning an experiment, researchers use operational definitions to define exactly how variables like "intelligence" or. False: researchers must give participants total anonymity. False: a negatively skewed distribution has a long tail on the right of the cluster. False: a teacher notices that, on the last science test, some students did very well while other students performed poorly or had grades in the middle of the pack.