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1 Week 1 2 Quiz Question 1 Through their research on human responses to physical stimuli, both Helmholtz and Fechner contributed to the beginning of a. science. b. materialism. c. comparative psychology. d. rationalism. e. psychophysics. Question 2 In psychological research, the term generalization refers to a. adding the results from one study to those from other studies. b. obtaining a broad understanding of how different variables are related to each other. c. how significant the results of the statistical analysis are. d. concluding that the results obtained from a sample can also be applied to the larger population. e. the ability to generalize the results from an experimental group to a control group. Question 3 The emphasis of the functionalist approach was placed squarely on a. understanding private mental events. b. discovering the physiological basis of consciousness. c. the biological significance of behaviour. d. solving the mysteries of the mind.

2 e. the relationship between the mind and body. Question 4 A commitment to the philisophical notions of empiricism and materialism implies a belief in, the idea that behaviour can be predicted perfectly from an animal's current brain sate together with the environmental stimuli it is exposed to. a. dualism b. the doctrine of specific nerve energies c. structuralism d. psychophysics e. determinism Question 5 Which two of the following approaches to psychology were most likely to reject the idea that mental events are an appropriate subject matter for study in psychology? a. functionalism and behaviourism b. structuralism and behaviourism c. Gestalt psychology and functionalism d. structuralism and functionalism e. behaviourism and cognitive psychology Question 6 The idea that behaviour that produces a favourable outcome is likely to be repeated is embodied in the a. approach to psychology championed by the structuralists.

3 b. behavioural process of classical conditioning. c. doctrine of specific nerve energies. d. law of effect. e. field of cognitive psychology. Question 7 If two variables are positively correlated, then in a scatterplot we should notice that high values of one variable are associated with values of the other variable. a. low b. high c. intermediate d. random e. extreme Question 8 Mean is to as standard deviation is to. a. descriptive statistics; inferential statistics b. inferential statistics; descriptive statistics c. variability; relations d. correlation; inferential e. central tendency; variability Question 9 Structuralism is to as functionalism is to.

4 a. elements of consciousness; purpose of consciousness b. introspection; consequences of behaviour c. consciousness; memory d. physiological basis of behaviour; evolutionary basis of behaviour e. unobservable behaviour; consciousness Question 10 The approach for investigating psychological phenomena Wundt adopted was a. structuralism b. functionalism c. Gestalt psychology. d. behaviourism e. structural functionalism. Question 11 Kathleen trains her dog by giving him a treat every time he obeys and scolding him when he disobeys. Her method of training is most related to the early psychological ideas of. a. functionalism b. Pavlov's psychic reflexes c. the doctrine of specific nerve energies d. the law of effect e. Gestalt principles of organization Question 12

5 A strong negative correlation would probably be found between: a. How hungry someone is at a given moment and the length of time since their last meal b. Someone s ability to swim, and how afraid they are of deep water c. How much experience someone has in pools and lakes, and their ability to swim d. How hungry someone is at a given moment and how afraid they are of deep water e. Someone s ability to swim, and how hungry they are at a given moment Question 13 Dr. Singh wants to know if the type of lighting (fluorescent or incandescent) under which participants read affects the number of pages of text that they can read in one hour. The dependent variable in this experiment is a. the type of lighting b. the amount of light c. fluorescent lighting d. incandescent lighting e. the number of pages of text read in one hour Question 14 Suppose that you conduct an experiment to study the effects of love on improving children's self concepts. To manipulate love, you allow a research assistant to hug each child after he or she has successfully completed a set of math problems. After the study is over, you ask the children if they felt loved during the study. They all say no. Apparently, your operational definition of your independent variable is a. unreliable b. not operational c. too subjective d. invalid e. not objective

6 Question 15 Dr. Lemieux wants to determine if a group of participants reading under incandescent light will read more pages of text in one hour than a group of participants reading under fluorescent light. She assigns students sitting at the front of the class to be in the "incandescent light" condition and students at the back of the class to be in the "fluorescent light" condition. In this experiment seating location is a. the independent variable b. the dependent variable c. a confounding variable d. a valid variable e. an operational definition Question 16 In a sample of Canadian adults, heights follow a normal distribution. Which of the following is NOT true about this sample a. the distribution of heights has a bell like shape b. The median and the mean have very different values c. The standard deviation indicates something about how much height changes from person to person d. The mode and the median have very similar values e. The difference between the tallest person and the shortest person is the range Question 17 Only involve the manipulation of independent variables a. experiments b. correlational studies c. case studies

7 d. studies using naturalistic observation e. hypotheses Question 18 The mark of a good theory is that it a. generates data that support it. b. produces testable hypotheses. c. cannot be disproved. d. encourages scientists to think about it. e. it can solve real problems in the world. Question 19 If an experimental procedure produces consistent results under consistent conditions, then the procedure is said to be a. reliable b. valid c. operationally defined d. counterbalanced e. stable Question 20 Inferential statistics are useful in telling researchers whether the results of their experiments are a. important

8 b. relevant to understanding some aspect of everyday life c. correlated with the results from other research d. due to chance e. affected by confounding variables