psych 101 exam 1

a psychologist is focusing on the nervous system, hormones, and the brain this psychologist has...

• a biological perspective

• a cognitive perspective

• a learning perspective

• sociocultural perspective

psychology is based on

• psedoscience

• empirical evidence

Who is responsible for the founding of psychology and "trained introspection"?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

• William James

functionalism is the study of the unconscious as the cause of mental and emotional problems.

• true

• false

what does falisfiable mean?

• there should be a possibility that evidence can be refuted

• you should take measures to ensure there is no false data collected

what is a case study?

• a study in which people are randomly selected from a convenience population

• intensive study about a person, or group, which is aimed to generalize

Answer explanation

examples of case studies

- phineas gage

-genie (feral child)

- patient H<M

What is standardization ?

• test is uniform/ set to specific standard

• test meets the standards of the state

• test meets the standard of the American Psychological Association

Sally takes a test on Monday and scores a 100 and takes the same test on Tuesday and scores a 70, the test has poor..

• alternate forms reliability

• test retest reliability

Answer explanation

alternate forms reliability would be if Molly had taken a different form of the same test on a different day.

What is content validity?

• does the test results predict outcomes relevant to the trait

• how well a test covers all relevant parts of the topic

• how consistant are test results

• test is uniform/ set to specific standard

What kind of correlation is this?

• positive

• negative

Answer explanation