Questions and Answers of Exploring Psychology

What does the acronym SQ3R stand for?
• The ________ _______describes the enhanced memory that results from repeated retrieval (as in self-testing) rather than from simple rereading of new information
• How are animal and human research participants protected?
Why, when testing a new drug to control blood pressure, would we learn more about its effectiveness from giving it to half of the participants in a group of 1000 than to all 1000 participants?
• In the experiment on the effects of perceived ethnicity on availability of rental housing, what was the independent variable?The dependent variable?
• In two recent studies, sexual hook-ups positively correlated with college women’s experiencing depression; delaying sexual intimacy correlated with positive outcomes such as greater
• Indicate whether each association is a positive correlation or a negative correlation.1. The more children and youth used various media, the less happy they were with their lives (Rideout et al.,
• What is an unrepresentative sample, and how do researchers avoid it?
• Why is replication important?
• Why is replication important?
• What does a good theory do?
• Why, after friends start dating, do we often feel that we knew they were meant to be together?
8. A psychologist conducting basic research to expand psychology’s knowledge base would be most likely toa. design a computer screen with limited glare and assess the effect on computer
7. A mental health professional with a medical degree who can prescribe medication is a .
6. A psychologist treating emotionally troubled adolescents at a local mental health agency is most likely to be a(n)a. research psychologist.b. psychiatrist.c. industrial-organizational
5. “Nurture works on what nature endows.” Describe what this means, using your own words.
4. Nature is to nurture asa. personality is to intelligence.b. biology is to experience.c. intelligence is to biology.d. psychological traits are to behaviors.
3. In the early twentieth century, redefi ned psychology as “the science of observable behavior.”a. John B. Watsonc. William Jamesb. Abraham Maslowd. Sigmund Freud
2. William James would be considered a(n) .Wilhelm Wundt and Edward Titchener would be considered .a. functionalist; structuralistsb. structuralist; functionalistsc. evolutionary theorist;
1. In 1879, in psychology’s fi rst experiment, and his students measured the time lag between hearing a ball hit a platform and pressing a key.
1-6 What are psychology’s main subfi elds?
1-5 What are psychology’s levels of analysis and related perspectives?
1-4 How has our understanding of biology and experience, culture and gender, and human fl ourishing shaped contemporary psychology?
1-3 How did psychology continue to develop from the 1920s through today?
1-2 What were some important milestones in psychology’s early development?
1-1 How do the scientifi c attitude’s three main components relate to critical thinking?

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