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Which of the following thinkers believed that people were born as blank slates and
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experiences formed their personality? - Locke
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Samantha believes all behavior originates from unconscious forces developed primarily
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in childhood and focused primarily on sex and aggression. With which approach to
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psychology is Samantha most likely to agree with? - Psychoanalytic
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With which of the following statements would a behaviorist be most likely to agree? -
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Psychology can only study what we can observe because this is all that can be empirically
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tested.
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Katelyn is struggling in school and fighting frequently with her parents. She is not sure
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about her future and what she wants to study in college. With which of the following
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statements about Katelyn would a humanistic psychologist most likely agree? - Katelyn
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is overthinking her problems, which are minor, and he misconception of the scope of the
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problem is inflating their importance.
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How does the humanistic approach to psychology differ from the psychoanalytic
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approach? - The humanistic approach focuses on striving to be one's best self, the
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psychoanalytic approach examines unconscious forces and the importance of sex and
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aggression.
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Edward Titchener followed the structuralist approach to examine human consciousness,
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with which of the following would be agree? - We can use the process of introspection by
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asking people about their response to specific stimuli.
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II Read the following quotation and answer the question that follows.
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"Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them
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up in and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of
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specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-
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man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and
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race of his ancestors. (1930)"
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To whom would the above statement most likely be attributed? - John Watson
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8. Benjamin helps design cars that are easy to drive and intuitive to use. It is most likely
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that Benjamin is engaged in which of the following fields of psychology? - Human Factors
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9. Denise just transferred from another school. She is having trouble adjusting to her new
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environment because she is very shy and is finding it difficult to make friends. Which of
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, the following types of psychologist might best help Denise work through this adjustment
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period? - Counseling
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10. Which of the following best describes how psychiatrists most often treat patients? -
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Through medication management
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A researcher wants to determine if studying for a half hour each night for a week for an
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exam is better than studying for three and a half hours on sunday evening for an exam on
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monday. Researchers will randomly select participants into either massed or distributed
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study groups. They will also measure the outcome of each unit exam. What is the
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dependent variable? - The score on each exam
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An experimenter wants to determine the impact of caffeine on attention span. Which of
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the following best represents random assignment experiments? - Placing participants
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into either the caffeine or non-caffeine group without any set pattern.
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A researcher wants to investigate a unique brain tumor in a twelve-year old child to see
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how the tumor affects the child's behavior. The researcher will conduct a battery of
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cognitive and physical tests with the child over the course of six months to account for
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potential changes in the tumor's size and impact. Which of the following would be the best
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research method to study this situation? - Individual Case Study
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A researcher determined that the less practice teenagers had driving, the more moving
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violations they received during the first year after receiving their driver's license. This
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finding is an example of which of the following? - A negative correlation
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A graduate wants to conduct a study to investigate people's opinions regarding the death
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penalty. Because he has not yet taken his research methods course, he does not know
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which technique would be best to gather data on this issue. Based on what you have read
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about research techniques, which of the following would work best? - Survey
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A researcher who has a role in designing a new medication for headaches wants to
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promote it. She unconsciously suggests to those who took her medication that they are
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feeling better than those who had an alternative medication. This demonstrates which of
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the following phenomenons? - Experimenter Bias
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What is the best way for a researcher to avoid unconsciously signaling any point of view
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to the participants in a study? - Double-Blind Study
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Which of the following is the best example of random selection? - Arbitrarily selecting
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names from everyone in the population to determine who will be in the study
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Mary is an undergraduate student who has volunteered for a study her professor is
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running. During the study Mary picks up on cues from her professor about the
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expectations he has regarding the outcome of the study. The professor does not realize
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he is giving these cues, and she does not realize that she is picking them up, yet she
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