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PSYC 1504 FINAL EXAM WITH ALL QUESTIONS ANDVERIFIED ANSWERS
Who was the first person to be referred to as a psychologist?
a. William James
b. Sigmund Freud
c. Wilhelm Wundt
d. Max Wertheimer
e. Ivan Pavlov - ANSWER c. Wilhelm Wundt
Who is known to be the father of behaviorism within Psychology?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. John B. Watson
c. Carl Rogers
d. Kurt Koffka
e. B.F. Skinner - ANSWER b. John B. Watson
Which of the following is one of the main precepts of scientific psychology?
a. subjectivism
b. empiricism
c. idealism
d. naturalism - ANSWER b. empiricism
Matt hopes that he and his ex-girlfriend, who broke up with him last month,
eventually will get back together. When he heard that she had talked about him
with a mutual friend, he took this as evidence that she was still interested in a
reunion. When he heard that she went on a date with someone else, he concluded
,that she was just trying to get her mind off their break-up. Matt is exhibiting:
a. A skeptical attitude
b. Mental continuity
c. Observational objectivity
d. The confirmation bias
e. The denial bias - ANSWER d. The confirmation bias
Which of the following is an example of a theory rather than an observation (or set
of observations)?
a. People tend to yawn when they see someone else yawning
b. Yawning involves movements of many facial muscles
c. Yawning is caused by the need to increase brain activity - ANSWER c. Yawning
is caused by the need to increase brain activity
In Milgram's controversial study on obedience, nearly __________ of the
participants were willing to administer what appeared to be lethal electrical shocks
to another person because they were told to do so by an authority figure.
a. 1/3
b. 2/3
c. 3/4
d. 4/5 - ANSWER b. 2/3
What is Abraham Maslow most famously known for proposing?
Select one:
a. Empirical research
b. Developmental milestones
c. Hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior
d. External stimuli's role in changing behavior - ANSWER c. Hierarchy of human
,needs in motivating behavior
Operational definitions are:
a. Scientifically approved definitions
b. Definitions illustrated with a concrete example or visual image
c. Definitions which are very precise
d. Dictionary definitions
e. Definitions which tell how to collect data - ANSWER e. Definitions that tell how
to collect data
An experimenter conducts a study that seeks to measure differences in responding
(answering a questionnaire at the end of the session) after subjects watch a comedy
or horror movie. In this study, which variable is considered the "independent
variable"?
a. The questionnaire at the end of the session
b. The movie (comedy or horror)
c. The age and gender of the participant
d. The location in which the study takes place
e. The individual experimenting. - ANSWER b. The movie (comedy or horror)
How are experimenter effects eliminated?
a. with a single-blind design
b. with reactive measures
c. with a double-blind design
d. with operational definitions
e. with convergent operations - ANSWER c. with a double-blind design
True or False: The operant conditioning chamber (aka Skinner box) is a device
used to study the principles of operant conditioning. - ANSWER True
, True or False: Before psychology became a recognized academic discipline,
matters of the mind were undertaken by those in biology. - ANSWER False
Any research involving human subjects must have prior approval by the:
a. IRB
b. Ethics Committee
c. IACUC
d. IKEA - ANSWER a. IRB
Which subfield of psychology would be interested in finding out what factors make
an employee best suited for a given job?
a. I/O
b. Social
c. Clinical
d. Human Resources
e. Personality - ANSWER a. I/O
True or False: "Psyche" is a Greek word meaning essence. - ANSWER False
What is the corpus callosum?
a. A type of nerve cell in the midbrain
b. A collection of deep midbrain structures
c. A lobe on the brain
d. The main fiber bundle connecting the hemispheres
e. The so-called homunculus - ANSWER d. The main fiber bundle connecting the
hemispheres
What determines an individual's inherited physical characteristics?
a. The genotype
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