According to the textbook, folk psychology can be defined as:

RM Chapter 6 Quiz

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Jared Branch
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Tendency to focus on cases that confirm our intuitive beliefs and to disregard cases that disconfirm our beliefs.
Mental shortcuts in forming and maintaining our beliefs.
Intuitive beliefs about people’s behavior, thoughts, and feelings.
Accepting that there are many things that we simply do not know.
2.
MULTIPLE SELECT QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
The two ways of demarcating science discussed in class are (select both):
Science can be observed
Science can be proven correct
Science can be disproved, or proven incorrect
Science relies on intuition and authority
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A _____ is a set of proposed ideas to explain a phenomena
Theory
Hypothesis
Parsimony
Method
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
In a double-blind peer review:
Both the reviewers and researchers know each others' identity
The researchers know, but the reviewers don't know, each others' identity
The reviewers know, but the researchers don't know, each others' identity
Neither the reviewers nor researchers know each others' identity
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A good operational definition is valid, meaning that it:
Is the simplest explanation
Measures what we think we're measuring
Is consistent over time
Quantifies a psychological construct by administration of a test
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The field of psychology concerned with the theories and techniques of psychological measurement is known as:
Psychotesting
Psychoinstrumentation
Psychomeasurements
Psychometrics
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
A ________ variable is a variable that causes the two variables that we are researching to be related, and results in spurious correlations
Manipulated
Independent
Dependent
Third
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