Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter Quiz



1.  

Psychologists who study how people change as they grow older are called ______________ psychologists.



2.  

Psychologists who see patients in the hospital are called



3.  

Fifty percent of psychologists work in the area of



4.  

The processes involved in learning, memory, sensation, perception, and cognition are investigated by _____________ psychologists.



5.  

Psychology is the study of behavior and



6.  

The __________ is composed formulating a hypothesis, careful observations, gathering data, and analyzing the data.



7.  

All of the following are goals of psychology EXCEPT



8.  

When you watch children play at a day care center to gather information about the difference in aggression between boys and girls, you are using the ____________ research method.



9.  

A research method that studies a person in-depth for some time through the use of observation, interviews, and writings is the ____________ method.



10.  

In ___________ research people are asked a set of questions.



11.  

People are sometimes given tests to predict their future performance in school or on the job. These tests are called _____________ studies.



12.  

The __________ research method should be used if the cause of a behavior is to be determined.



13.  

In an experiment to test the effects of stress on performance, the independent variable is



14.  

Which group does not receive the treatment and is used for comparison?



15.  

Population is to ________ as sample is to _______.



16.  

Milgram's research focused on _________.



17.  

The first psychology lab was opened by



18.  

Structuralism emphasizes



19.  

Functionalism emphasizes that



20.  

Freud believed that our behavior is controlled by



21.  

Freud believed that unresolved conflicts during developmental stages may result in



22.  

Behaviorism was founded by



23.  

___________ psychologists are concerned with the scientific study of mental processes.



24.  

Researchers have found that Schizophrenia is related to excesses of dopamine chemical in the brain. These researchers would likely be _________ psychologists.



25.  

__________ psychologists work to improve efficiency of people in business.



26.  

When studying a particular behavior, a psychologist first __________________



27.  

A hypothesis is



28.  

Research which observed behavior in its actual setting without controlling anything is called



29.  

The research method used by Freud was



30.  

The amount of association between two or more variables is



31.  

The only research method that can demonstrate a cause and effect relationship between variables is the _______________ method.



32.  

A researcher manipulates the _____________ variable.



33.  

Expectations by the experimenter that may have an effect on the results of an experiment are called



34.  

It is important that a sample be _____________ of the population



35.  

Subjects in Milgram's studies were TOLD they were taking part in studies on



36.  

Wundt learned to do



37.  

The basic units of experience and their combinations were the foundation of



38.  

Consciousness as a continuous flow is an important concept to



39.  

Freud believed that adult problems usually



40.  

Gestalt theory emphasizes

Note: answer choices in this exercise are randomized.

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