Psyc 101 Week 1-14 TXT

PSYC101 - General Psychology TXT copy Short Quiz 3 Gestalt is any object or event that is perceived by our senses. Select one: True False Forensic psychology applies psychology to the legal system. Forensic psychologists might help with jury selection or provide expert testimonies in trials. Select one: True False

A response is an organism’s reaction to a stimulus. Select one: True False Sigmund Freud established the first psychology laboratory in 1879 at the University of Leipzig, in Germany. Select one: True False

Health psychology examines how people become who they are, from conception to death, concentrating on biological and environmental factors. Select one: True

False

American Psychologists Martin Seligman and Ed Diener introduced behaviorism. Select one: True False

Darwin’s theory speculated that certain behaviors or traits that enhance survival are naturally selected. Select one: True False

Clinical psychology applies findings in all areas of psychology in the workplace. Select one: True False

Community psychology is concerned with providing accessible care for people with psychological problems. Community-based mental health centers are one means of delivering such services as outreach programs. Select one: True False

Environmentalpsychology explores the effects of physical settings in most major areas of psychology including perception, cognition, learning, and others. Select one: True False

Short Quiz 4

1. Any changeable phenomenon that a scientist studies is called ______________.

Select one: a. Predictor b. Diffirential c. Variation d. Variable

2. Which of the following topics would a psychologist have the least interest in? Select one: a. Sexuality b. Color Perception c. Learning d. Weather Patterns

3. It is a broad idea or set of closely related ideas that attempts to explain observations. Select one: a. Scientific Method b. Theory c. Prediction d. Phenomenon

4. It provides an objective description of how a variable is going to be measured and observed in a particular study. Select one: a. Data Analysis b. Drawing Conclusion c. Operational Definition d. Observation

5. It is a testable prediction that derives logically from a theory. Select one: a. Hypothesis b. Empirical Research c. Scientific Inquiry d. Data

6. Paul believes that physical attractive people are selfish. He conducts a study to see if he is right. He goes up to five people he thinks are good looking and asks them for spare change. They all turn him down. Paul concludes “Aha! I knew it all along.” The operational definition of selfish in Paul’s study is _______________. Select one: a. whether people gave Paul a spare change b. asking for spare change c. physical attractiveness d. whether Paul thought the person was attractive

7. Which of the following statements is correct? Select one: a. Both correlational and experimental research allow researchers to determine causality. b. Only correlational research allows researchers to determine causality. c. Neither correlational and experimental research allow researchers to determine causality d. Only experimental research allows researchers to determine causality.

8. The more hours that students work, the less successful they are academically. This is an example of what type of correlation? Select one: a. Negative b. Positive c. Zero d. Perfect

9. In an experiment on attitudes, participants are given either positive or negative information about a speaker and then asked to evaluate the effectiveness of the speaker. In this experiment, which is the independent variable? Select one: a. Attitude change b. The speaker c. The type of information the participant is given d. The effectiveness of the speaker

10. Which of the following statements is true? Select one: a. Quasi experimental research is not a true experiment because participants are not randomly assigned to different conditions. b. Survey determines the relationship between two or more variables. c. Results of case study is applicable to everyone.