Introduction to Psychology

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Susan Anderson
Quiz by Susan Anderson, updated more than 1 year ago
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Question 1

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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
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  • bar graph
  • normal curve
  • correlation
  • scatterplot
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