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Psychology 1101: Exam 1 - Part 1

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  1. 1According to structuralists the goal of psychology is to:
    1. Abreak down the conscious experience to understand its basic underlying components.
    2. Bexamine the functions served by the mind
    3. Cfigure out how behavior is effected by evolution
    4. Dexamine how outside stimuli effect behavior
  2. 2Which of the following psychologists is most closely associated with the school of functionalism?
    1. AWilliam James
    2. BB.F. Skinner
    3. CSigmund Freud
    4. DEdward Titchener
  3. 3Gestalt Psychology is LEAST relevant to our understanding of which topic?
    1. ACellular Neruoscience
    2. BVision
    3. CHuman Personality
    4. DConscious experience
  4. 4Which of the following developments was important in the rise of the cognitive approach in psychology?
    1. AThe emergence of computers
    2. BDarwin's evolutionary theory
    3. CWorld War II
    4. DWhen people started studying human biology
  5. 5Which of the following sub-fields of psychology is INCORRECTLY matched with its description?
    1. ANeuroscience: understanding the neural basis of mental life
    2. BBehaviorism: how behavior is influenced by observable environmental stimuli
    3. CFunctionalism: examining the functions of the mind
    4. DCognitive: examines how people grow and change from conception to death
  6. 6Researchers are likely to choose a correlation design when:
    1. Aconclusions from the study are hard to be made
    2. Bit is impossible to control the variable studied
    3. Cin case of a third-variable
    4. Dthere is a directionality problem
  7. 7Bai is conducting a study on learning. When she manipulates an independent variable it is possible that some other factor, such as a noise in the hall, can affect learning in one of the groups but not the other. This possibility reflects the presence of:
    1. Aa dependent variable
    2. Ba control group
    3. Ca confound
    4. Drandom sampling
  8. 8If you wanted to conduct observational research but were concerned that the people you observed would change their behaviors due to reactivity, you could:
    1. Ado culturally sensitive research
    2. Buse a blinded study
    3. Crule out alternative explanations
    4. Ddo a case study
  9. 9In correlational studies, it is always possible that an unmeasured variable is responsible for the relation of interest. This complication is know as:
    1. Aa dependent variable
    2. Bthe Hawthorne Effect
    3. Can experimental group
    4. Dthe third variable problem
  10. 10When data collected in research is not useful in addressing the issue, we say that data is NOT:
    1. Aa confound
    2. Bvalid
    3. Ctestable
    4. Dstatistically significant

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