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PSYC1040 FINAL EXAM| 100 QUESTIONS |
WITH ANSWERED
SOLUTIONS!!
PSYC 1040
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,PSYC1040 FINAL EXAM | 100 QUESTIONS |
WITH ANSWERED SOLUTIONS!!
What are research methods? Answer - standardised ways of asking questions
and collecting observations to answer them
What are statistics? Answer - - branch of mathematics focused on
organisation, analysis and interpretation of a group of numbers
- process of making numerical conjectures about puzzling questions in the face
of uncertainty
What unifies psychology? Answer - the quest to understand behaviour using
the methods of science
How is personal experience a source of knowledge? Answer - - can acquire
knowledge without being consciously aware of the source and may be based
on a gut feeling
- based on one's own interpretation of events and is prone to error
What are the problems of authority as a source of knowledge? (5) Answer - -
not directly verifiable
- authority figure may not be an expert
- information may be flawed
- no guarantee of logical evaluation of the data
- can have vested interests
, How is the use of reason (logic) a source of knowledge? Answer - Syllogisms:
sound premise leads to a sound conclusion OR flawed premise leads to a
flawed conclusion
- all men are mortal
- Richard is a man
- therefore, Richard is mortal
What is knowledge via empiricism? Answer - - gained through objective
observation
- seeing, hearing, tasting, touching
- need to make sense of observations by using rationalism and empiricism to
make sure being logical
Gaining knowledge via science Answer - merger of rationalism and empiricism
rationalism = formulation of hypotheses and theories
empiricism = systematic observation and collection of data
Statistics: John Stuart Mill Answer - Method of Agreement: if X then Y
(experimental group)
Method of Disagreement: if not X then not Y (control group)
Use of research: AZT 1987 Answer - - 1000s of people in the US were dying of
AIDs with no cure or proven treatment available
- AZT was looking promising as patients given it had increased appetites and
weight gains
- 1/145 patients given AZT died
- 19/137 patients given a placebo died
- odds of these differences occurring by chance is 1/1000
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