PSYC 1504 UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and CORRECT Answers
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PSYC 1504
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PSYC 1504
PSYC 1504 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- c. Wilhelm Wundt
PSYC 1504 UPDATED ACTUAL
Questions and CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔e. Definitions
which 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 conducting the experiment. - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT 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. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔True
True or False: Before psychology became a recognized academic discipline, matters of the
mind were undertaken by those in biology. - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔False
, Any research involving human subjects must have prior approval by the:
a. IRB
b. Ethics Committee
c. IACUC
d. IKEA - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a. I/O
True or False: "Psyche" is a Greek word meaning essence. - CORRECT 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 - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔d. The main fiber bundle
connecting the hemispheres
What determines an individual's inherited physical characteristics?
a. The genotype
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