PSY 120 Purdue Exam UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
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PSY 120 Purdue
PSY 120 Purdue Exam UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER- scientific study of behavior and mind
Clinical psychologist - CORRECT ANSWER- diagnose and treat psychological
problems
ex: depression, anxiety, etc,
work in clinics or practices,
PSY 120 Purdue Exam UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
What is psychology? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- scientific study of behavior and mind
Clinical psychologist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- diagnose and treat psychological
problems
ex: depression, anxiety, etc,
work in clinics or practices,
applied psychologist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- extend principles of scientific psychology
to practical problems
research psychologist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- conduct basic research to discover the
principles of behavior and mind
mean - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- average of a set of scores
median - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- middle point in set of scores
mode - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- most frequently occurring score
range - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- top score - bottom score
confounding variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- uncontrolled variable that changes along
with the independent variable,
ex: giving an ad to people, must give them same exact ad, time to read it, time of day, etc, in
order to have NO confounding variables
dependent variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- behavior that is measured in an experiment
ex: how much aggression someone has after they watch something
, independent variable - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- aspect of the environment that is
manipulated in an experiment, must consist of two conditions
ex: the level of violence in the thing the person watches
placebo - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- inactive substance that resembles an experimental
substance
ex: they give people a fake drug in an experiment
correlational research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- stats that indicate whether two variables
vary together in a systematic way, from +1.00 to -1.00
experimental research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- technique in which the investigator
manipulated the environment to observe its effect on the behavior
ex: change of external (temperature), internal (mood), or social (presence of someone)
quasi-experimental research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- used when people cannot be
randomly assigned to experimental groups
(bad because you don't know what had manipulation on DV)
operational definition - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- procedures used in a study to get at
(measure) variables
ex: intelligence as how well you do on a test
resting potential - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- created by the presence of electrically charged
atoms and molecules called ions
its a specific time electric charge inside/outside the cell
action potential - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- all or none electrical signal that travels down a
neuron's axon
synaptic gap - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔- small gap between cells, typically between the
terminal buttons of one neuron and the dendrite or cell body of another
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