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PSYCH 115 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND DETAILED CORRECT ANSWERS~ A+ GRADE 2024
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PSYCH 115 FINAL EXAM QUESTION S AND DETAILED CORRECT ANSWERS~ A+ GRADE 2024 Which of the following is an overt behavior Correct Answer Reaction Time Which of the following is NOT part of the scientific method Correct Answer Report conclusions directly to the media You are teaching Psych -115 and al l of your students correctly answer every question on the first test. When trying to explain this success, the law of parsimony would lead you to assume: Correct Answer Your students studied hard in order to correctly answer every question Which of the fo llowing is a goal of psychological science? Correct Answer To predict behaviors under specific conditions Following this test, you reflect and think "I knew Dr. Jones would ask us a question on the law of parsimony, I should have studied that more". Which cognitive bias are you illustrating? Correct Answer Hindsight Bias Most scientists that study human behavior and mental processes accept the assumption that: Correct Answer None of the above As discussed in class, in science the concept of falsifiabilit y means Correct Answer explanations must be structured in a way that makes it possible to test whether or not they are correct What is one way we as scientists protect ourselves from pseudoscience? Correct Answer the peer review process Which of the foll owing was most flawed in the Clever Hans theory? Correct Answer Parsimony Drawing different conclusions from the same information, depending on how that information is presented is an example of which cognitive bias? Correct Answer Framing Effect What do we experience stronger, losses or gains? Correct Answer losses How are biology and psychology connect? Correct Answer Everything psychological is biological What makes pseudoscience different than bad science? Correct Answer Intent to deceive Which of the following is NOT pseudoscience? Correct Answer All of these are; astrology, vaccines cause autism, the earth is flat Finding your Tinder date attractive and therefore overlooking the fact that your date was rude to the waitress is an example of Correct Answer halo effect The tendency to place greater importance on evidence that confirms/supports one's existing beliefs or theories and down -play evidence that does not match the held belief is which cognitive bias? Correct Answer None of these; halo effect, optimism bias, self -serving bias The idea that sharks are more dangerous than lightening is an example of which cognitive bias? Correct Answer Availability Heuristic Behaviorists were concerned with studying... Correct Answer observable beha vior _____ focused on the contents of consciousness while _____ focused on unconscious drives and motives Correct Answer structuralism; psychoanalysis Which of the following is the best example of a psychological construct Correct Answer motivation Little Albert learning a fear of rats was used to support which psychological school of thought? Correct Answer Behaviorism Which of the following would be considered a sufficient condition for inferring that consuming a high -fat diet causes memory impairment s? Correct Answer An experimenter finds subjects put on a high -fat show larger memory deficits than subjects put on low -fat diets Which of the following best illustrates an operational definition of hunger Correct Answer An animal is hungry when its blood sugar level drops 10% or more below that recorded after a meal. One reason Stanley Milgram's studies of obedience to authority have been questioned on ethical grounds is because the Correct Answer subjects did not feel they were able to leave at any time . The express purpose of __________________ research is to investigate whether a change in the value of one variable produces (i.e., causes) a change in the value of another variable. Correct Answer experimental The presence of a confound in an experimen t: Correct Answer prevents any strong conclusion about the causal relation between variation in the IV and changes in the DV You can never prove the ______ hypothesis Correct Answer null Which of the following has internal validity? Correct Answer Experimental Research If a majority of the class did well on the Psych 115 test but a few students did not grasp the material and did very poorly, which of the following would most likely be tru e: Correct Answer The mean is lower than the median Staring up at the clouds and seeing the shape of an elephant was first described by which school of thought in psychology? Correct Answer Gestalt Which of the following is the strongest correlation coef ficient? Correct Answer closest to 1 or -1 If deception is used in an experiment, what is a key step researchers need to complete to maintain IRB compliance because of that deception? Correct Answer Debriefing Milgram's Obedience Experiment is most frequ ently associated with which psychological school of thought? Correct Answer Humanism What type of research design is depicted in the diagram above? (Box with diagonal lines making an x) Correct Answer Cross -Lagged Panel Correlation Name the school of tho ught of Freud Correct Answer Psychoanalysis School of thought of Watson Correct Answer Behaviorism School of thought of Maslow Correct Answer Humanism
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