Chapter 01 - 04 Review

Front 1

A major difference between Watson's behaviorism and Freud's psychoanalysis is that ?

Back 1

Behaviorism stressed observable behavior, but psychoanalysis stressed unconscious urges.

Front 2

A split-brain patient is briefly shown a cup on the far left and a hat on the far right. if asked to indicate which object appeared, when will the cup be selected?

Back 2

Only when the left hand is used to select the object.

Front 3

After reading that children’s shoe size and reading ability are positively correlated, Tom said, “Getting older probably explains both increased shoe size and reading skill. Which problem associated with interpreting correlations did Tom point out?

Back 3

a third variable effect

Front 4

Although she saw both pieces taken out of their cans, Amy now thinks that she has less clay than her brother because his has been squashed flat. Amy does not understand

Back 4

conservation

Front 5

Based on Harlow’s artificial mother research, hospitals might best promote parent-child attachment if

Back 5

parents are encouraged to cuddle their newborn often.

Front 6

Compared to neurons without myelin, neurons with myelin?

Back 6

usually have faster transmission rates

Front 7

Eduardo's body was encased in cast during the first nine months of his life. He probably will

Back 7

begin to walk at about the same time as children given free movement.

Front 8

Fred’s advisor noticed that he had not included the same words in each list used to test whether the color of ink affects memory. The lists differed in both content and ink color. Fred can’t easily interpret his results because

Back 8

his experiment included a confounding variable.

Front 9

Grandpa’s stroke affected Broca’s area in the brain. Grandpa probably has difficulty

Back 9

producing language

Front 10

If Mike is struggling to achieve generativity rather than stagnation, mike is probably?

Back 10

Middle aged

Front 11

Kim decided that stealing a drug would be wrong because it is against the law, and because laws are needed to maintain social order. Kim is reasoning at Kohlberg’s

Back 11

Conventional Level

Front 12

Marta believes that innate mechanisms help us learn language, find a mate, and engage in some social behaviors. She believes these mechanisms occur because of natural selection. Marta’s beliefs suggest

Back 12

she is an evolutionary psychologist

Front 13

Prior to the 1800s, the mind was studied mostly by

Back 13

philosophers and physiologists

Front 14

Psychologists who work in schools and industry are classified as

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applied psychologists

Front 15

researchers are recording the gross electrical activity of a man's brain. this procedure is probably an

Back 15

EEG

Front 16

Researchers manipulated the temperature of the room in which 4 groups of students were asked to solve 10 math problems. Students in the 60- and 70-degree rooms had more correct answers than students in the 80- and 90-degree rooms. The dependent variable in this experiment is

Back 16

the number of math problems correct.

Front 17

Sharika's hindbrain was damaged when she hit her head. She is likely to experience

Back 17

Problems regulating heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure.

Front 18

The cognitive revolution refers to

Back 18

the new interest in studying the mind, after years of studying only directly observable behavior.

Front 19

To help ensure that uncontrolled individual difference in participants are equated across the groups in an experiment, researchers are most likely to use

Back 19

random assignment

Front 20

When results from laboratory research fail to predict behavior in the real world, research lacks

Back 20

external validity