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EPSY 1281 questions with completesolutions graded A+
Self regulated learning - correct answer ✔✔learning is guided by strategic actions and motivation to
learn
Constructive learning - correct answer ✔✔experiencing things and reflecting on them
Cooperative learning - correct answer ✔✔group work learning
Applied Psychology - correct answer ✔✔professional application of psychological knowledge to the
solutions of problems associated with human behavior
six common areas of App. Psych - correct answer ✔✔1. clinical
2. counselling
3. educational
4. occupational
5. Health
6. sports & exercise
6 other areas of app. psych - correct answer ✔✔1. environmental
2. community
3. consumer
4. Forensic
5. Neuropsychology
6. Military
3 features of scientific approach - correct answer ✔✔1. systematic empiricism
2. empiricism questions
,3. Public knowledge
Pseudoscience - correct answer ✔✔activities and beliefs that are claimed to be scientific but might lack
systematic empiticism
attitudes of scientist - correct answer ✔✔uncertain
open-minded
skeptical
cautious
ethical
features of scientific research - correct answer ✔✔empirical - all information is based on observation
objective
systematic
controlled
public
hypothesis
Basic research - correct answer ✔✔conducted to achieve a more detailed and accurate understanding of
human behavior
applied research - correct answer ✔✔conducted to address practical problems
confirmation bias - correct answer ✔✔focus on cases that confirm intuitive beliefs and not on cases that
disconfirm them
most compelling evidence for a claim comes from __________ - correct answer ✔✔converging evidence
Correlational designs permit researchers to ___________ - correct answer ✔✔predict and describe
behavior
, Paying attention to observations that support our thought about something is an example of_________ -
correct answer ✔✔confirmation bias
quantitative Variables - correct answer ✔✔assigning a number to each individual ex: height, weight,
mean, standard deviation
categorical variable - correct answer ✔✔assigning category label to each individual ex: gender, college
major
simple random sampling - correct answer ✔✔every member of the population has an equal chance of
being selected
operational definition - correct answer ✔✔variable in terms of precisely how it is to be measured
correlation is not - correct answer ✔✔causation
independent variable - correct answer ✔✔manipulated / two different conditions
dependent variable - correct answer ✔✔observed and measured the effect of the independent variable
theory - correct answer ✔✔logically organized set of propositions that defines events and explains
occurrence of events
explanation
organizing knowledge
guiding research
phenomenon - correct answer ✔✔general result that has been observed reliably in systematic empirical
research
established answer to a research question
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