PSYC 221 INTRODUCTION TO GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY TEST II

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Introduction to General Psychology Quiz

Test your knowledge of psychology concepts with this comprehensive quiz designed for students of PSYC 221. Challenge yourself with questions that cover various psychological theories, research methods, and influential figures in the field.

Explore the following topics:

Fundamentals of Psychology
Research Methods
Psychological Theories
Historical Figures in Psychology

30 Questions8 MinutesCreated by ExploringMind101

If you were to perform an experiment analyzing the statement "If you drop out of school, you're damaging your future," your future is the _____ variable

Independent

experimental

dependent

treatment

The application of psychological theories, methods and techniques to solve practical human problems describes an area of psychology known as

Social psychology

Para-psychology

Applied psychology

Humanistic psychology

In the definition of psychology, behavior means:

internal, covert processes

mental processes

Outward or overt actions and reactions

overt processes

A general principle or set of principles proposed to explain how a number of separate facts are related.

Research

Questionnaire

Theory

Science

The orderly, systematic procedures that researchers follow as they identify a research problem, design a study to investigate the problem, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions, and communicate their findings.

Theory

Scientific method

Research

Hypothesis

Proposing reasons for behaviors and mental processes is what goal of Psychology

Describe

Explain

Predict

Control

_______ research method involves looking inward to examine one’s own conscious experience and then reporting that experience.

Introspection

Intervention

Meditation

Inversion

An early school of psychology that was concerned with how humans and animals use mental processes in adapting to their environment.

Structuarlism

Functionalism

Behaviourism

Gestalt

Completed Ph.D. Requirements at Johns Hopkins University in the mid-1880s but had to wait 40 years to receive her degree; formulated evolutionary theory of color vision.

Albert Sidney Beckham

Margaret Floy Washburn

Mary Whiton Calkins

Christine Ladd-Franklin

First African American to earn a Ph.D. In psychology; translated more than 3,000 research articles from German, French, and Spanish; chaired psychology department at Howard University; known as the “father” of African American psychology

Francis Cecil Sumner

Albert Sidney Beckham

George Sánchez

Margaret Floy Washburn

The most influential school of thought in American psychology until the 1960s

Gestalt

Behaviorism

Functionalism

Structuralism

Focuses on the uniqueness of human beings and their capacity for choice, growth, and psychological health

Social Psychology

Humanistic Psychology

Cognitive Psychology

Behavioral

The humanistic perspective continues to be important in research examining human motivation and in the practice of psychotherapy via a relatively new approach known as

Free will

Self esteem

Positive psychology

Choices

According to evolutionary psychology, natural selection has provided infants and caregivers with a built-in genetic predisposition to form an emotional attachment to one another because such bonds help infants survive.

True

False

A descriptive research method in which researchers observe and record behavior in its natural setting, without attempting to influence or control it.

Case study

Naturalistic observation

Survey

Experimentation

Is a part of a population that is studied to reach conclusions about the entire population

Inference

Sample

Population

Control group

The entire group of interest to researchers to which they wish to generalize their findings; the group from which a sample is selected.

Random sample

Population

Representative sample

Aspect ratio

Perhaps the most powerful descriptive method available to psychologists is the

Case study

Survey

Naturalistic Observation

Correlation

A numerical value that indicates the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables; ranges from +1.00

Correlational method

Variable

Correlation coefficient

Statistics

Comparisons of groups that differ in exposure to a variable of interest that cannot be manipulated for ethical or practical reasons.

Double-blind technique

Quasi-experiments

Cross-cultural research

Selection bias

In an experiment, the experimental group is exposed to all aspects of the treatment except the independent variable.

True

False

A procedure in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is in the experimental and control groups until after the data have been gathered; a control for experimenter bias

Experimenter bias

Placebo

Double-blind technique

Quasi-experiment

A researcher wants to determine whether noise level affects the blood pressure of elderly people. In one group she varies the level of noise in the environment and records participants’ blood pressure. In this experiment, the level of noise is the

Experimental condition

Independent variable (the factor being manipulated

dependent variable (the factor being measured)

Control condition

Children are capable of thinking in abstract terms. They can separate objects into those that float and those that sink in water.

Formal operational

Concrete operational

Preoperational

Sensorimotor

Non-experimental methods that include;

Laboratory, field and quasi-experiment

Observational, survey, interview and case study

Survey, quasi-experiment, observational

Interview, laboratory, correlation

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