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Introduction to Psychology

Susan Anderson 10 questions

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  1. 1Who was a student of William James and the first female president of the American Psychology Association?
    1. AJean Paiget
    2. BMargaret Floy Washburn
    3. CRosalie Rayner
    4. DMary Whiton Calkins
  2. 2Contemporary psychology is best define as the science of
    1. Aconscious and unconscious mental activity
    2. Bobservable responses to the environment
    3. Cbehavior and mental processes
    4. Dmaladaptive and adaptive behaviors
  3. 3the distinctive feature of the psycho-dynamic perspective is its emphasis on
    1. Anatural selection
    2. Bbrain chemistry
    3. Cunconscious conflicts
    4. Dlearned behaviors
  4. 4The personality theorist, Sigmund Freud, was an Austrain
    1. Achemist
    2. Bphysician
    3. Ctheologian
    4. Dpolitician
  5. 5Professor Ober carefully observes and records the behavior of children in their classrooms in order to track the development of their social and intellectual sills. Professor Ober is most clearly engaged in
    1. Asurvey research
    2. Bnaturalistic observation
    3. Cexperimentation
    4. Dreplication
  6. 6If psychologists discovered that wealthy people are less satisfied with their marriages than poor people are, this would indicated that wealth and marital satisfaction are
    1. Acasually related
    2. Bnegatively related
    3. Cindependent correlated
    4. Dpositively correlated
  7. 7Median is to range as central tendency is to ________
    1. Askewed distribution
    2. Bmode
    3. Ccorrelation
    4. Dvariation
  8. 8The mean of a distribution of scores is the
    1. Amost frequently occurring score
    2. Barithmetic average of all the scores
    3. Cleast frequently occurring score
    4. Dscore exceeded by 50 percent of all the scores
  9. 9Which of the following correlation coefficients expresses the weakest degree of relationship between two variables?
    1. A-0.12
    2. B-0.99
    3. C+0.25
    4. D-0.50
  10. 10The symmetrical bell-shaped figure used to represent the distribution of many physical and psychological characteristics is called a
    1. Abar graph
    2. Bnormal curve
    3. Ccorrelation
    4. Dscatterplot

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