Who was a student of William James and the first female president of the American Psychology Association?
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Jean Paiget
Margaret Floy Washburn
Rosalie Rayner
Mary Whiton Calkins
Question 2
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Contemporary psychology is best define as the science of
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conscious and unconscious mental activity
observable responses to the environment
behavior and mental processes
maladaptive and adaptive behaviors
Question 3
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the distinctive feature of the psycho-dynamic perspective is its emphasis on
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natural selection
brain chemistry
unconscious conflicts
learned behaviors
Question 4
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The personality theorist, Sigmund Freud, was an Austrain
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chemist
physician
theologian
politician
Question 5
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Professor 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
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survey research
naturalistic observation
experimentation
replication
Question 6
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If psychologists discovered that wealthy people are less satisfied with their marriages than poor people are, this would indicated that wealth and marital satisfaction are
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casually related
negatively related
independent correlated
positively correlated
Question 7
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Median is to range as central tendency is to ________
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skewed distribution
mode
correlation
variation
Question 8
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The mean of a distribution of scores is the
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most frequently occurring score
arithmetic average of all the scores
least frequently occurring score
score exceeded by 50 percent of all the scores
Question 9
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Which of the following correlation coefficients expresses the weakest degree of relationship between two variables?
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-0.12
-0.99
+0.25
-0.50
Question 10
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The symmetrical bell-shaped figure used to represent the distribution of many physical and psychological characteristics is called a