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Queens University PSYC 100 Lesson 1-2 1)Through their research on human responses to physical stimuli, both Helmholtz and Fechner contributed to the beginning of: 2

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PSYC 100

Lesson 1-2

1)Through their research on human responses to physical stimuli, both Helmholtz and Fechner contributed to the beginning of:

2.            Which of the following approaches to psychology was most likely to reject the idea that mental events are an appropriate subject matter for study in psychology?

3.            Rationalism is to________________as empiricism is to                .

4.            Which is most accurate?

5.            The concept of natural selection is most important for psychologists interested in the -

                of behaviour.

6.            Structuralism is to______________as functionalism is to             .

7.            Psychology arose in the nineteenth century from developments in a number of areas, primarily:

8.            Which of the following is not true:

9.            If psychology can be defined as the science of behaviour and the mind, why are the data in psychology always drawn from behaviour?

10.          Is psychology most closely related to:

 

11.          Mean is to______________as standard deviation is to ____________

12.          Suppose that you conduct an experiment to study the effects of love on improving children's self concepts. To manipulate love, you allow a research assistant to hug each child after he or she has successfully completed a set of math problems. After the study is over, you ask the children if they felt loved during the study. They all say no. Apparently, your operational definition of your independent variable is:

13.          Only       involve the manipulation of independent variables.

14.          In psychological research, the term generalization refers to:

15.          Dr. Lemieux wants to determine if a group of participants reading on computer screens will read more pages of text in one hour than a group of participants reading on paper. She assigns students sitting at the front of the class to be in the "computer" condition and students at the back of the class to be in the "paper" condition. In this experiment seating location is:

16.          The first step of the scientific method specifies that a researcher:

17.          Inferential statistics are useful in telling researchers whether the results of their experiments are:

18.         

19.          A researcher has two groups of subjects- one that has been taught a memory aid and one that has not. Both groups are asked to learn a list of 20 nouns in two minutes, and both are then given a recall test. What is the independent variable?