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Category 1, $100 Question First person to really analyze human behavior by looking at the unconscious processes of humans and how childhood experiences affect later development.
Category 1, $100 Answer Sigmund Freud
Category 2, $100 Question A non-active substance or condition used to see if the actual drug or condition has any effect beyond expectations is called:
Category 2, $100 Answer Placebo
Category 3, $100 Question Type of research in which the same people are studied over a period of time.
Category 3, $100 Answer Longitudinal Method
Category 4, $100 Question Brett notes the behavior of people as they wait in line for tickets to the game. Which of the following research methods is he using?
Category 4, $100 Answer Observation
Category 5, $100 Question Fraternal twins come from ____ egg/s
Category 5, $100 Answer Two fertilized eggs
Category 1, $200 Question Structuralism is to _________ as Functionalism is to _________.
Category 1, $200 Answer Wundt James
Category 2, $200 Question Repeating a research study to see if the results can be reliably reproduced is called:
Category 2, $200 Answer Replication
Category 3, $200 Question The quotation below is consistent with the views of which of the following schools of psychology? "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to be anyh type of specialist I might select - - doctor, lawyer, artists, merchant-chief and, yes, even a psychology teacher."
Category 3, $200 Answer Behaviorism
Category 4, $200 Question In an experiment, the group that receives the treatment.
Category 4, $200 Answer Experimental group
Category 5, $200 Question An organism genetically predisposed to fear predators would pass down this trait to its offspring illustrates the concept of
Category 5, $200 Answer Natural Selection.
Category 1, $300 Question John Watson is from this school of thought
Category 1, $300 Answer Behavioral
Category 2, $300 Question Psychology is the study of
Category 2, $300 Answer Behavior and mental processes.
Category 3, $300 Question If those who watch a lot of TV violence are also particularly likely to behave aggressively, this would NOT necessarily indicate that watching TV violence causes aggressive behavior because:
Category 3, $300 Answer Correlations do not show causation
Category 4, $300 Question In psychology it is usually a behavior or mental process - the experimental factor that may change in response to manipulations of other variables.
Category 4, $300 Answer Dependant Variable
Category 5, $300 Question In a test of the effects of sleep deprivation on problem-solving skills, research participants are allowed to sleep either 4 or 8 hours on each of three consecutive nights and then see if there is an effect on problem-solving skills. This research is an example of:
Category 5, $300 Answer Experiment
Category 1, $400 Question If you investigate ways in which different people think about and interpret life experiences, you are analyzing human behavior through the _________________ perspective.
Category 1, $400 Answer Cognitive
Category 2, $400 Question This perspective uses tools like a CAT scan and other tools to look inside the body to describe human behavior.
Category 2, $400 Answer Biological
Category 3, $400 Question Mr. Bandy believes that most women prefer tall and physically strong partners because this preference enhanced the reproductive success of our female ancestors. This viewpoint best illustrates the _______ perspective:
Category 3, $400 Answer Evolutionary
Category 4, $400 Question One must do this in experiments to allow replication to take place and to objectively measure the variables in a study.
Category 4, $400 Answer Operationally define their variables.
Category 5, $400 Question Is this a strong or weak correlation?
Category 5, $400 Answer Relatively strong
Category 1, $500 Question What perspective in psych would argue that all humans are by nature good
Category 1, $500 Answer Humanistic
Category 2, $500 Question This perspective would look at ways in which people solve problems.
Category 2, $500 Answer Cognitive
Category 3, $500 Question This perspective would look at obesity and ask if some groups are at a greater risk of obesity than others.
Category 3, $500 Answer Sociocultural
Category 4, $500 Question The variable the experimenter manipulates in an experiment.
Category 4, $500 Answer IV
Category 5, $500 Question What are the four basic principles osed to judge the ethics of research?
Category 5, $500 Answer 1. Informed consent 2. protection from harm 3. confidentiality 4. debrief