Review Quiz #1

What is psychology?

• study of people

• study of behavior and mental processes

• study of mental disorders

• study of personal bias

Which is more limited?

• research evidence

• personal knowledge

what is the first step to research evidence?

• Data collection

• Design your study

• Generate a hypothesis

• Replication

What are the characteristics of a good hypothesis

Select all that apply.

• Testable

• Falsifiable

• Always correct

• Against facts

Why is replication of a study necessary?

• To make the study more complicated

• Pick me pls :)

• Just for fun :)

• Determine reliability

Tentative statement about the relationship between two or more variables

• Hypothesis

• Variable

• Operational definition

• Expectancy effects

Any stimulus or phenomena that can vary in value

• Hypothesis

• Variable

• Operational definition

• Expectancy effects

Identify the dependent variable in this hypothesis:

As exposure to TV violence increases, aggressive behavior in children increases

• exposure to TV violence

• aggressive behavior in children

• TV

• children

Which is NOT a variable?

• car

• time

• weight

• temperature

What is an independent variable?

• the behavior measured

• the factor that is manipulated

• the factor that stays the same

• I don't remember :(