Psychology Unit 1 Test Questions – Flashcards

The scientific study of behavior without reference to mental processes was of special interest to

An integrated explanation of human behavior provided by the neuroscience, cognitive, social-cultural, and other perspectives in psychology is most clearly provided by

Understanding why the fear of darkness may have contributed to the survival of our human ancestors is most relevant to the ________ perspective

Which perspective would be most helpful for understanding the role of retrieval practice on long-term memory of information?

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

Which method offers the most reliable way of assessing whether athletic performance is boosted by caffeine consumption?

In drug-treatment studies, double-blind procedures minimize outcome differences between experimental and control conditions that could be attributed to

To assess whether sense of humor is affected by sexual stimulation, researchers exposed married couples to either sexually stimulating or to sexually non-stimulating movie scenes prior to watching a comedy skit. In this research, the independent variable consisted of

Ethical principles developed by psychologists urge investigators to

A negative correlation between people's work-related stress and their marital happiness would indicate that