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1. is an experiment in which participants do not know if they
are in the experimental or the control group, and the experimenters also do not know
which participants are part of which group.
Answer: The double-blind study
2. Experimenters can justify the use of deception only if .
Answer: it is necessary
for the experiment to work, and participants are debriefed afterwards
3. The goals of psychology are to .
Answer: describe, understand, predict, and control behavior
4. Who was an early proponent of functionalism?
Answer: William James
5. Freud said phobias were whereas Watson said phobias were
.
,Answer: repressed conflicts; learned
6. Which perspective focuses on free will and self-actualization?
Answer: humanism
7. What is one similarity shared by clinical psychologists and psychiatrists?
Answer: They
diagnose and treat people experiencing behavioral and emotional problems.
8. When you watch how dogs play in the park or how your professors act in the
classroom, that could actually be considered a form of .
Answer: naturalistic observation
9. A detailed description of a particular individual being studied or treated is called
.
Answer: a case study
10. A negative correlation means that .
Answer: high values of one variable
are associated with low values of the other
11. The two main divisions of the nervous system are the and .-
Answer: peripheral nervous system; central nervous system
, 12. Which part of the neuron is responsible for maintaining the life of the cell?
Answer: soma
13. Which of the following neurotransmitters functions as a common inhibitory
neurotransmitter in the brain?
Answer: GABA
14. Which part of the nervous system takes the information received from the senses,
makes sense out of it, makes decisions, and sends commands out to the muscles and
the rest of the body?
Answer: brain
15. The part of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for reacting to stressful
events and bodily arousal is called the nervous system.-
Answer: sympathetic
16. Hormones are .
Answer: chemicals released into the bloodstream by the endocrine glands