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, 1. (PsychSim: Psychology's Timeline) What early philosopher believed that themind is a blank slate before environmental experiences write their story?
A) Plato
B) John Locke
C) Sigmund Freud
D) René Descartes
2. (PsychSim: Psychology's Timeline) Dualism is the belief that
A) all knowledge comes from sensory experiences.
B) psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
C) some ideas are innate and inborn.
D) the mind and body are two separate entities.
3. (PsychSim: Psychology's Timeline) Which pioneer demonstrated through
research that our mental processes could be studied with the same scientific
methods used in other areas of science?
A) Aristotle
B) René Descartes
C) Hermann von Helmholtz
D) Carl Rogers
4. (PsychSim: Psychology's Timeline) Which view of psychology emphasized the
study of mental processes alone?
A) structuralism
B) empiricism
C) behaviorism
D) humanism
5. (PsychSim: Psychology's Timeline) Which psychologist helped bring together the
views of psychology as a science of behavior and as a science of mental
processes?
A) Margaret Floy Washburn
B) Sigmund Freud
C) B. F. Skinner
D) Jean Piaget
6. (PsychSim: What's Wrong With This Study?) To evaluate the relationship
between two types of behavior, researchers would most likely make use of
A) experimental research.
B) naturalistic observation.
C) descriptive methods.
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,D) correlational measures.
7. (PsychSim: What's Wrong With This Study?) When psychologists conduct
research, the small group they test is the ________ and the larger group to which
the results are applied is the ________.
A) sample; population
B) representative group; random group
C) experimental group; control group
D) descriptive group; observational group
8. (PsychSim: What's Wrong With This Study?) To ensure that the participants' and
researchers' expectations do not influence the outcome of an experiment, the
psychologist should
A) use a correlational measure.
B) form a hypothesis.
C) determine cause and effect.
D) apply the double-blind procedure.
9. (PsychSim: What's Wrong With This Study?) Alfredo and Rachelle are
conducting a research study on the effects of loud music on college students'
hearing. They put one group of students in a room where music is blaring and
another group of students in a quiet room. The group in the quiet room is called
the ________ group.
A) control
B) experimental
C) random
D) correlational
10. (PsychSim: What's Wrong With This Study?) Judith showed up for her first day
as a participant in a psychology experiment. She and 15 other students were told
to pick a piece of paper out of a hat to discover whether they would be in Group
1 or Group 2. What procedure were the experimenters using to determine group
membership?
A) representative sample
B) double-blind
C) random assignment
D) experimental
11. (PsychSim: Descriptive Statistics) When most scores in a data set are toward one
end of the range of scores, the distribution is said to be
A) subnormal.
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, B) symmetrical.
C) skewed.
D) normal.
12. (PsychSim: Descriptive Statistics) If a distribution is badly skewed, researchers
are more likely than usual to prefer the ________ as a measure of central
tendency.
A) mode
B) median
C) mean
D) standard deviation
13. (PsychSim: Descriptive Statistics) The median of a skewed distribution is likely
to be ________ the mean.
A) equal to
B) equal to or less than
C) equal to or greater than
D) less than or greater than
14. (PsychSim: Descriptive Statistics) The standard deviation is the average distance
of each score in a distribution from the
A) range.
B) median.
C) mean.
D) mode.
15. (PsychSim: Descriptive Statistics) Imagine that you have entered the following
distribution of scores into the program: 7, 9, 6, 3, 7, 8, 4, 10, 7, 9. The mean of
this distribution of scores would be changed the most if a score of ________ was
removed from the data set.
A) 3
B) 7
C) 8
D) 10
16. (PsychSim: Correlation) A correlation between variables can be detected by
visual inspection of a
A) frequency polygon.
B) normal curve.
C) scatterplot.
D) bar graph.
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