PSYCH 115 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass
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PSYCH 115 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass
Which of the following is an overt behavior
Reaction Time
Which of the following is NOT part of the scientific method
Report conclusions directly to the media
You are teaching Psych-115 and all of your students correctly answer every...
PSYCH 115 Final Exam Questions and Answers 100%
Pass
Which of the following is an overt behavior
Reaction Time
Which of the following is NOT part of the scientific method
Report conclusions directly to the media
You are teaching Psych-115 and all of your students correctly answer every question on the first test.
When trying to explain this success, the law of parsimony would lead you to assume:
Your students studied hard in order to correctly answer every question
Which of the following is a goal of psychological science?
To predict behaviors under specific conditions
Following this test, you reflect and think "I knew Dr. Jones would ask us a question on the law of
parsimony, I should have studied that more". Which cognitive bias are you illustrating?
Hindsight Bias
Most scientists that study human behavior and mental processes accept the assumption that:
None of the above
As discussed in class, in science the concept of falsifiability means
explanations must be structured in a way that makes it possible to test whether or not they are
correct
What is one way we as scientists protect ourselves from pseudoscience?
the peer review process
Which of the following was most flawed in the Clever Hans theory?
Parsimony
Drawing different conclusions from the same information, depending on how that information is
presented is an example of which cognitive bias?
Framing Effect
What do we experience stronger, losses or gains?
losses
How are biology and psychology connect?
Everything psychological is biological
What makes pseudoscience different than bad science?
Intent to deceive
, Which of the following is NOT pseudoscience?
All of these are; astrology, vaccines cause autism, the earth is flat
Finding your Tinder date attractive and therefore overlooking the fact that your date was rude to the
waitress is an example of
halo effect
The tendency to place greater importance on evidence that confirms/supports one's existing beliefs
or theories and down-play evidence that does not match the held belief is which cognitive bias?
None of these; halo effect, optimism bias, self-serving bias
The idea that sharks are more dangerous than lightening is an example of which cognitive bias?
Availability Heuristic
Behaviorists were concerned with studying...
observable behavior
_____ focused on the contents of consciousness while _____ focused on unconscious drives and
motives
structuralism; psychoanalysis
Which of the following is the best example of a psychological construct
motivation
Little Albert learning a fear of rats was used to support which psychological school of thought?
Behaviorism
Which of the following would be considered a sufficient condition for inferring that consuming a high-
fat diet causes memory impairments?
An experimenter finds subjects put on a high-fat show larger memory deficits than subjects put on
low-fat diets
Which of the following best illustrates an operational definition of hunger
An animal is hungry when its blood sugar level drops 10% or more below that recorded after a meal.
One reason Stanley Milgram's studies of obedience to authority have been questioned on ethical
grounds is because the
subjects did not feel they were able to leave at any time.
The express purpose of __________________ research is to investigate whether a change in the value
of one variable produces (i.e., causes) a change in the value of another variable.
experimental
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