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Py 101 Exam 1 UA Question and answers already passed Py 101 Exam 1 UA Psychology - correct answer The scientific study of how people think, feel, and behave. What psychology is not - correct answer Psychobabble: talk shows Pseudoscience: Astrology Common Sense or Intuition Critical ...

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Py 101 Exam 1 UA
Psychology - correct answer ✔The scientific study of how people think, feel,
and behave.


What psychology is not - correct answer ✔Psychobabble: talk shows
Pseudoscience: Astrology
Common Sense or Intuition


Critical Thinking - correct answer ✔to systematically question and evaluate
information using well-supported evidence


Amiable Skepticism - correct answer ✔openness to new ideas while still
evaluating the evidence


How to think critically - correct answer ✔Look for holes in evidence
Keep asking questions


Seeing relationships that do not exist - correct answer ✔correlation does not
equal causation


confirmation bias - correct answer ✔ignoring evidence
tendency to search for, interpret and recall information that supports what we
have already believed


hindsight bias - correct answer ✔"I knew it all along"

,mental shortcuts - correct answer ✔Availability heuristics (can lead to
inaccurate judgements or biased outcomes)
Legistics vs what we see


underestimating weaknesses - correct answer ✔People fail to see own
weaknessess


Goals of science - correct answer ✔description, explanation, prediction,
control


Scientific Method - correct answer ✔Systematic and dynamic procedure of
observing and measuring phenomenon


Theory - correct answer ✔explanation of phenomenon
must be falsifiable


Hypothesis - correct answer ✔Prediction based on theory
must be testable


research - correct answer ✔careful collection of data to test hyp (and theory)


Steps of the Scientific Method - correct answer ✔Frame a research Question
Conduct literature review
form Hypothesis
design a study
conduct the study
analyze data

, report results


A case for replication - correct answer ✔more replication = more confident in
results


Variable - correct answer ✔anything measured or manipulated in research


operational definition - correct answer ✔exact wording for how a variable is
measured or manipulated
definition that qualifies or quantifies
definition that describes exactly what was done to produce a phenomenon or
to measure some variable.


Tuskegee Syphilis Study - correct answer ✔Research study conducted by a
branch of the U.S. government, lasting for roughly 50 years (ending in the
1970s), in which a sample of African American men diagnosed with syphilis
were deliberately left untreated, without their knowledge, to learn about the
lifetime course of the disease.


Belmont Report - correct answer ✔created to provide guidelines for how to
conduct ethical research


respect for persons - correct answer ✔treat as autonomous agents


benficence - correct answer ✔maximize benefits and minimize harm


Justice - correct answer ✔benefits and burdens of research must be shared
fairly

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