PSYCHOLOGY 1100 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
Frank is a full professor who is interested in the relationship between the brain
weight of rats and their speed in learning to find their way through ha complex
maze. Every afternoon he gives each of his fifty rats ten trials in the maze,
counting the number of wrong turns each rat makes on its way through the maze.
laboratory observation
Ben is counseling Fennimore Jones in a small room in the neuropsychiatric
hospital. Ben is a graduate student in clinical psychology and Fennimore is his
client. Fennimore was admitted to the neruopsychiatric hospital when he came to
the student health clinic complaining he hears voices shouting obscenities at him
and confiding that he thinks he is going through a spontaneous sex change. After
each session with Fennimore, Ben writes a report describing Fennimore's verbal
and nonverbal behavior and his interpretations of the behavior.
case history
Carl is a graduate student who plans to become a psychometrician. He, like Ben,
is working at the neuropsychiatric hospital. His job is to administer a battery of
tests to new patients. He will send the test results, along with his summary and
interpretations of them, to the patient's clinical psychologist or psychiatrist.
psychological tests
Ada is testing the hypothesis that color preference can be influenced by
associating a color with a pleasant experience, like eating. This afternoon she is
delivering a supply of red, yellow, blue, green and white nursing bottles to the
mothers of newborns who have consented to let their infants be subjects in her
research.
experiment
Dee is an assistant professor who will teach introductory psychology for the first
time next term. She has chosen some films to show her class of over 200
students, and now preparing a questionnaire to administer to her students after
each film. She thinks getting student reactions to the film will be helpful the next
time she teaches this class.
survey
Ed is an undergraduate psychology major. For his senior thesis he is
investigating the nature of audience for pornography. This afternoon he is sitting
in his car across the street from one of the pornographic bookstore in the area.
He is taking notes on the sex, approximate age, and ethnicity of the patrons as
they enter and leave the room.
naturalistic observation
psychology
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What re the four goals of psychology?
, 1) describe
2) explain
3) predict
4) change
How do we conduct research?
scientific method
what does the scientific method entail?
1) careful observation
2) develop a hypothesis
3) test hypothesis
4) draw conclusions
5) evaluate conclusions
what is a hypothesis?
educated guess
sample
part of the population you are studying
population
total group of people
random sample
every member of population has an equal chance of being included
representative sample
similar characteristics as population; mirrors population
what are the different types of psychological research?
1- descriptive research
2- correlational research
3- experimental research
what are the different types of descriptive research?
naturalistic observation, case study, and survey
naturalistic observation
observe and describe behavior as it occurs in the natural environment
pros= see behaviors as they unfold naturally
cons= no control over other variables
case study
in depth study of an individual
pros= provides a wealth of information about the person and behaviors
cons= difficult to generalize
survey
questionnaire or interview designed to examine the attitudes, beliefs, opinions,
behaviors of individuals
pros= large amounts of descriptive data relatively quickly and inexpensively
cons= non-representative sample
correlational research
examines how strongly two variables are related to one another
third variable problem
some other variable accounts for relationship between two variables, also called
confounds
ANSWERS LATEST UPDATE
Frank is a full professor who is interested in the relationship between the brain
weight of rats and their speed in learning to find their way through ha complex
maze. Every afternoon he gives each of his fifty rats ten trials in the maze,
counting the number of wrong turns each rat makes on its way through the maze.
laboratory observation
Ben is counseling Fennimore Jones in a small room in the neuropsychiatric
hospital. Ben is a graduate student in clinical psychology and Fennimore is his
client. Fennimore was admitted to the neruopsychiatric hospital when he came to
the student health clinic complaining he hears voices shouting obscenities at him
and confiding that he thinks he is going through a spontaneous sex change. After
each session with Fennimore, Ben writes a report describing Fennimore's verbal
and nonverbal behavior and his interpretations of the behavior.
case history
Carl is a graduate student who plans to become a psychometrician. He, like Ben,
is working at the neuropsychiatric hospital. His job is to administer a battery of
tests to new patients. He will send the test results, along with his summary and
interpretations of them, to the patient's clinical psychologist or psychiatrist.
psychological tests
Ada is testing the hypothesis that color preference can be influenced by
associating a color with a pleasant experience, like eating. This afternoon she is
delivering a supply of red, yellow, blue, green and white nursing bottles to the
mothers of newborns who have consented to let their infants be subjects in her
research.
experiment
Dee is an assistant professor who will teach introductory psychology for the first
time next term. She has chosen some films to show her class of over 200
students, and now preparing a questionnaire to administer to her students after
each film. She thinks getting student reactions to the film will be helpful the next
time she teaches this class.
survey
Ed is an undergraduate psychology major. For his senior thesis he is
investigating the nature of audience for pornography. This afternoon he is sitting
in his car across the street from one of the pornographic bookstore in the area.
He is taking notes on the sex, approximate age, and ethnicity of the patrons as
they enter and leave the room.
naturalistic observation
psychology
the scientific study of behavior and mental processes
What re the four goals of psychology?
, 1) describe
2) explain
3) predict
4) change
How do we conduct research?
scientific method
what does the scientific method entail?
1) careful observation
2) develop a hypothesis
3) test hypothesis
4) draw conclusions
5) evaluate conclusions
what is a hypothesis?
educated guess
sample
part of the population you are studying
population
total group of people
random sample
every member of population has an equal chance of being included
representative sample
similar characteristics as population; mirrors population
what are the different types of psychological research?
1- descriptive research
2- correlational research
3- experimental research
what are the different types of descriptive research?
naturalistic observation, case study, and survey
naturalistic observation
observe and describe behavior as it occurs in the natural environment
pros= see behaviors as they unfold naturally
cons= no control over other variables
case study
in depth study of an individual
pros= provides a wealth of information about the person and behaviors
cons= difficult to generalize
survey
questionnaire or interview designed to examine the attitudes, beliefs, opinions,
behaviors of individuals
pros= large amounts of descriptive data relatively quickly and inexpensively
cons= non-representative sample
correlational research
examines how strongly two variables are related to one another
third variable problem
some other variable accounts for relationship between two variables, also called
confounds
