Psych 101: Chapter 1 – Flashcards

The growth potential of healthy people was emphasized by

Which perspective would help you understand the links between hormone levels and sexual motivation?

Focusing on the extent to which behavior is influenced by motives outside our own awareness is most relevant to the ________ perspective.

Dr. Stevens provides psychotherapy to people who suffer from excessive anxiety. Dr. Stevens is most likely a ________ psychologist.

Jamie and Lynn were sure that they had answered most of the multiple-choice questions correctly because "the questions required only common sense." However, they each scored less than 60% on the exam. This best illustrates:

Psychological theories:

Which research method runs the GREATEST risk of collecting evidence that may be unrepresentative of what is generally true?

Every twenty-fifth person who ordered a subscription to a weekly news magazine was contacted by market researchers to complete a survey of opinions regarding the magazine's contents. The researchers were using a technique known as:

Mr. Brown has gathered evidence that the self-esteem of students is negatively correlated with their typical levels of anxiety. Before he uses this evidence to conclude that self-esteem reduces anxiety, Mr. Brown should first be reminded that:

A correlation of +1.00 between children's physical height and their popularity among their peers indicates that:

Researchers are testing the potential effect of hunger on taste sensitivity. Groups of research participants are deprived of food for differing lengths of time before being given a taste-sensitivity test. This research is an example of:

In a study of factors that might affect memory, research participants were assigned to drink either an alcoholic or a nonalcoholic beverage prior to completing a memory test. Those who drank the nonalcoholic beverage were assigned to the ________ group.

In an experiment on the effects of dieting on weight loss, dieting would be the:

In a well-controlled experiment, researchers seek to minimize:

Checking your ability to recall information you have just studied improves your long-term retention of that information. Psychologists have referred to this as: