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- 1. Multiple Choice
You see a newspaper headline that claims that eating pizza is deadly. However, when you notice that investigators only found a correlation between pizza consumption and death over a 10-year period. Given what you know about correlation, how would you explain this relationship?
Pizza consumption causes death, but the mechanisms for this cannot be understood from a correlational study.
Pizza consumption causes death, but since the period of study is 10 years long, the correlation is very weak at best.
Pizza consumption and death are related somehow, but a correlational study is not able to reveal any kind of causal relationship.
It is more likely that being closer to death causes pizza consumption, because older people have eaten much more pizza over the course of their lifetime
- 2. Multiple Choice
Which psychological school of thought focused on how to study subjective perspectives as a unified whole?
Humanistic psychology
Gestalt Psychology
Structuralism
Behaviorism
- 3. Multiple Choice
which psychological school of thought arose from Freud's attempts to understand connections between psychology and physical problems?
Introspection
Functionalism
Psychoanalytic theory
Natural selection
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about ethical research is FALSE
Research involving human subjects must be reviewed and approved by a board of experts before the study can begin.
Research participants' info must be protected and made available only to the few people who need it.
researchers cannot ask participants to expose themselves to unnecessary risk or discomfort as part of a study
it is unethical to observe people in public without their knowledge
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT one of the three key questions to ask when thinking critically?
What are the social repercussions of holding this belief?
What am I asked to believe or accept
What evidence is provided to support this claim
What are the most reasonable conclusions
- 6. Multiple Choice
Psychologists are scientists who study behavior and mental processes through observation and measurement. What is this approach to understanding psych called?
Experimental methods
empiricism
inferential statistics
the scientific method
- 7. Multiple Choice
Judith is conducting an experiment on mood and problem solving. She plans to have study participants read either a funny story or a sad story before taking a math test. WHat is the dependent variable in Judith's study?
the type of story participants read
the experimental group of participants
the number of math problems participants correctly solve
the personality of the participants who choose to be in the study
- 8. Multiple Choice
Josiah has formed a theory that consumption of sugar makes it difficult for people to fall asleep within one hour. He has designed a study where his hypothesis is that the more sugar people eat, the longer it will take before they can go to sleep. What should Josiah do next?
test his hypothesis
analyze the data he has collected
formulate a research question
use descriptive statistics
- 9. Multiple Choice
Jacob's father thinks he was born to be a skilled ice skater just like his mother and older sister, but Jacob's mother thinks that his skills and interests come from growing up in a household full of skaters. What long-standing debate is at the heart of the disagreement between Jacob's parents?
Mind/Body problem
Introspection vs Observation
Dualism
Nature/Nurture debate
- 10. Multiple Choice
Fredrick is reading about the ways in which learning can be influenced by difference factors. He comes to reasonable conclusions that are supported by the information he gathers. What is Fred doing?
Empirical Testing
Critical Thinking
Divergent Reasoning
Convergent Reasoning
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