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Dr.Leland can prescribe drugs in some situations and works with depressed women.He must be a psychologist.

A) True
B) False

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In an experiment,the group of subjects to which the experimental group is compared is called the:


A) comparison group.
B) standard group.
C) confederate group.
D) control group.

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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A psychologist is interested in finding out why identical twins have different personalities.This psychologist is most interested in the goal of


A) description.
B) explanation.
C) prediction.
D) control.

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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The steps or procedures an experimenter must use to control or measure the variables in a study are called the ______________.


A) hypothesis
B) operational definition
C) double-blind study
D) theory

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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As a science,psychology is approximately how old?


A) 50 years
B) 125 years
C) 175 years
D) 2500 years since the field dates back to the ancient Greeks

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Marcy is trying to define anxiety in a way that can be empirically tested.She is attempting to find an appropriate _____________.


A) hypothesis
B) operational definition
C) double-blind study
D) theory

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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Which of the following statements is TRUE?


A) A psychologist is a medical doctor specializing in the treatment of emotional disturbances.
B) A psychiatrist is a medical doctor specializing in the treatment of emotional disturbances.
C) Clinical psychologists treat severe psychological disturbances and psychiatrists treat mild disorders.
D) Both clinical psychologists and psychiatrists can prescribe medications to their patients.

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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Which noted African American psychologist held posts as president of Shaw University in North Carolina and then as president of Virginia State College?


A) Charles Henry Thompson
B) Howard Hale Long
C) Robert Prentiss Daniel
D) Albert Sidney Beckham

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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"The whole is greater than the sum of the parts" is a statement associated with the perspective of ______________ .


A) introspection
B) functionalism
C) psychoanalysis
D) Gestalt psychologists

E) C) and D)
F) A) and B)

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Which of the following is a common ethical guideline suggested by the American Psychological Association?


A) Participants may not withdraw once they start.
B) Participants must be allowed to make an informed decision.
C) Participants cannot be subjected to shock of any kind.
D) Participants cannot be deceived about aspects of the research.

E) B) and D)
F) A) and C)

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John Watson was the founder of the school of thought that became known as __________.


A) functionalism
B) structuralism
C) behaviorism
D) humanism

E) None of the above
F) B) and D)

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A psychologist evaluated Tameka,an eight-year-old child who has experienced difficulty in school.The psychologist sent questionnaires to 100 teachers to determine if they had ever seen similar cases.Based on the teachers' responses,the psychologist hypothesized that a particular diet might cause the learning problem.Following her tabulation of the responses,she designed a study that would tell her if diet were the actual cause.Which of the following lists,in order from first to last,the research methods this psychologist used?


A) experiment,case study,survey
B) case study,survey,experiment
C) correlation,case study,experiment
D) naturalistic observation,survey,experiment

E) A) and B)
F) C) and D)

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Mr.Marshall hired June to collect data from a group of subjects.Neither June nor the subjects were aware of the independent variable that Mr.Marshall had manipulated.This is an example of _______.


A) randomization
B) a placebo
C) double-blind control
D) experimenter bias

E) B) and C)
F) None of the above

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Gestalt psychology attempted to discover


A) how the mind helped people adapt to the world.
B) the overall patterns of perceptions and thoughts.
C) the basic building blocks of consciousness.
D) the unconscious motivations for human functioning.

E) A) and B)
F) None of the above

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The question "What is happening?" refers to which of the following goals in psychology?


A) description
B) explanation
C) prediction
D) control

E) A) and B)
F) A) and D)

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Which of the following statements is true about naturalistic observation?


A) It recreates natural conditions in the laboratory as closely as possible to make an experiment more valid.
B) It involves observing behavior in its natural context.
C) It is basically the same process as objective introspection.
D) It involves observing behavior in the lab without taking formal notes or using technological equipment to measure the experimental findings.

E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

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Which of the following terms belong together?


A) structuralism; observable behavior
B) Gestalt; separate parts
C) psychoanalysis; conscious conflict
D) natural selection; functionalism

E) None of the above
F) All of the above

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What did Sigmund Freud consider as the key to understanding the nervous disorders he observed?


A) free will
B) brain physiology
C) the unconscious mind
D) external consequences

E) A) and C)
F) None of the above

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In the statement "Critical thinking requires reasoned judgments," the word reasoned means ______________.


A) giving it a lot of thought
B) logical and well thought out
C) seeing one side of an argument very clearly
D) focusing on opinion

E) B) and D)
F) A) and D)

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Watson is to behaviorism as _______ is to psychoanalysis.


A) Freud
B) James
C) Skinner
D) Wundt

E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

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