PSY 101 Exam 1
Six of the children in Mr. Myers' class were born on exactly the same day. This strikes him as
astonishing and improbable. In this instance, he should be reminded that
a. correlation does not prove causation
b. sampling extreme cases lead to false generalizations
c. random sequences of events often don't look random
d. events often seem more probable in hindsight - answerTBD (not b)
When we have the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have
foreseen it, it is called:?
a. Intuition
b. Hindsight bias
c. Overconfidence
d. Perceiving orders in random events - answerb. Hindsight bias
Giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding and the other half an
opposite finding in the class is an easy way to demonstrate the impact of
a. Overconfidence
b. Conscious experience
c. Unconscious mind
d. Hindsight bias - answerd. Hindsight bias
Wilhelm Wundt is credited with:?
a. developing the discipline of psychophysics in the United States.
b. opening the first psychology laboratory.
c. evaluating the effects of social forces on one's behavior.
,d. identifying the effects of childhood experiences on the development of our adult personality.
- answerb. opening the first psychological laboratory.
The word psychology was derived from the Greek words psyche, meaning ___________.
a. Soul
b. Mind
c. Body
d. Normal - answerb. Mind
According to the lecture on the psychology of doing well in this class, which strategy will
produce the best performance in the exam?
a. Stay up all night before exam
b. Do not take breaks
c. Take multiple tests
d. Exercise - answerc. take multiple test
In the Koriat, Bjork, Sheffer, & Bar (2004) study, participants inaccurately estimated that they
will recall approximately 40% of studied words regardless of when they will take the memory
test. This result suggests that
a. people are prone to make an inaccurate judgment of learning (JOL).
b. we need to distribute study sessions to get a good grade in the class.
c. people know that they forget things over time.
d. people tend to ignore the generation effect on learning. - answera. people are prone to make
an inaccurate judgement of learning (JOL)
Psychology gained its independence from philosophy when researchers started to examine and
test human sensations and perception using ______________ methods.
a. Scientific
, b. Behavioral
c. Abstract
d. Reflection - answera. Scientific
_____________ asserts that psychology can be a true science only if it examines observable
behavior, not ideas, thoughts, feelings, or motives.?
a. Socialism
b. Behaviorism
c. Information processing approach
d. Functionalism - answerb. Behaviorism
Psychology is most accurately defined as the _____________.?
a. scientific study of human culture and origins?
b. scientific study of thought and behavior
c. study of people in terms of large-scale social forces and with a focus on groups rather than
individuals
d. study of people through description and analysis of past events and artifacts - answerb.
scientific study of thought and behavior
What does it mean to say that a theory is "falsifiable"?
a. Most scientists do not agree with the theory.
b. We can imagine evidence that would contradict the theory
c. The evidence supporting the theory is not replicable.
d. Someone has already reported evidence that contradicts the theory - answerb. we can
imagine evidence that would contradict the theory
A blind observer is an observer who
Six of the children in Mr. Myers' class were born on exactly the same day. This strikes him as
astonishing and improbable. In this instance, he should be reminded that
a. correlation does not prove causation
b. sampling extreme cases lead to false generalizations
c. random sequences of events often don't look random
d. events often seem more probable in hindsight - answerTBD (not b)
When we have the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have
foreseen it, it is called:?
a. Intuition
b. Hindsight bias
c. Overconfidence
d. Perceiving orders in random events - answerb. Hindsight bias
Giving half the members of a group some purported psychological finding and the other half an
opposite finding in the class is an easy way to demonstrate the impact of
a. Overconfidence
b. Conscious experience
c. Unconscious mind
d. Hindsight bias - answerd. Hindsight bias
Wilhelm Wundt is credited with:?
a. developing the discipline of psychophysics in the United States.
b. opening the first psychology laboratory.
c. evaluating the effects of social forces on one's behavior.
,d. identifying the effects of childhood experiences on the development of our adult personality.
- answerb. opening the first psychological laboratory.
The word psychology was derived from the Greek words psyche, meaning ___________.
a. Soul
b. Mind
c. Body
d. Normal - answerb. Mind
According to the lecture on the psychology of doing well in this class, which strategy will
produce the best performance in the exam?
a. Stay up all night before exam
b. Do not take breaks
c. Take multiple tests
d. Exercise - answerc. take multiple test
In the Koriat, Bjork, Sheffer, & Bar (2004) study, participants inaccurately estimated that they
will recall approximately 40% of studied words regardless of when they will take the memory
test. This result suggests that
a. people are prone to make an inaccurate judgment of learning (JOL).
b. we need to distribute study sessions to get a good grade in the class.
c. people know that they forget things over time.
d. people tend to ignore the generation effect on learning. - answera. people are prone to make
an inaccurate judgement of learning (JOL)
Psychology gained its independence from philosophy when researchers started to examine and
test human sensations and perception using ______________ methods.
a. Scientific
, b. Behavioral
c. Abstract
d. Reflection - answera. Scientific
_____________ asserts that psychology can be a true science only if it examines observable
behavior, not ideas, thoughts, feelings, or motives.?
a. Socialism
b. Behaviorism
c. Information processing approach
d. Functionalism - answerb. Behaviorism
Psychology is most accurately defined as the _____________.?
a. scientific study of human culture and origins?
b. scientific study of thought and behavior
c. study of people in terms of large-scale social forces and with a focus on groups rather than
individuals
d. study of people through description and analysis of past events and artifacts - answerb.
scientific study of thought and behavior
What does it mean to say that a theory is "falsifiable"?
a. Most scientists do not agree with the theory.
b. We can imagine evidence that would contradict the theory
c. The evidence supporting the theory is not replicable.
d. Someone has already reported evidence that contradicts the theory - answerb. we can
imagine evidence that would contradict the theory
A blind observer is an observer who
