PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
1.Define science of Psychology ANS Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and
mental process
2.Empiricism ANS Belief that knowledge comes exclusively through the senses or
through experience
3.Pseudoscience ANS A fake or false science that makes claims based on little or no
scientific evidence.
4.Case Study ANS An in-depth examination of one individual, or a small number of
individuals
5.The Survey ANS An investigation of many cases in less depth by asking people to report
opinions and behaviors
6.Naturalistic observation ANS recording behaviour in its natural environments, and
describing it in detail
7. Experimentation ANS Purpose is to explore cause and effect by manipulating one or
more factors, while holding other factors constant
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8. independent variable ANS The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable
whose effect is being studied (i.e if you are testing if breastfeeding kids has a
difference or not in their intelligence later in life, the independent variable is breast
milk and formula)
9. Dependent Variable ANS The outcome factor; the variable that may change in
response to manipulations of the independent variable.
10. Difference between Descriptive and correlational research methods ANS
Descriptive research method is to observe and record behavior. Correlational research
method is to detect naturally occurring relationships . Nothing is manipulated in these
two research methods.
11. Biological Psychology ANS The basic assumption that everything psychological is
biological
12. Phrenology ANS A popular but wronged theory in the 1800's that claimed that
bumps on the skull could reveal mental abilities and character traits.
13. Sensory Neurons ANS Carry messages from the body's tissues and sensory organs
inward to the brain and spinal cord for processing
14. Motor Neurons ANS Carry Messages from the brain and out to the bodes tissues
1.Define science of Psychology ANS Psychology is the scientific study of behaviour and
mental process
2.Empiricism ANS Belief that knowledge comes exclusively through the senses or
through experience
3.Pseudoscience ANS A fake or false science that makes claims based on little or no
scientific evidence.
4.Case Study ANS An in-depth examination of one individual, or a small number of
individuals
5.The Survey ANS An investigation of many cases in less depth by asking people to report
opinions and behaviors
6.Naturalistic observation ANS recording behaviour in its natural environments, and
describing it in detail
7. Experimentation ANS Purpose is to explore cause and effect by manipulating one or
more factors, while holding other factors constant
, PSYCHOLOGY 101 EXAM STUDY GUIDE
8. independent variable ANS The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable
whose effect is being studied (i.e if you are testing if breastfeeding kids has a
difference or not in their intelligence later in life, the independent variable is breast
milk and formula)
9. Dependent Variable ANS The outcome factor; the variable that may change in
response to manipulations of the independent variable.
10. Difference between Descriptive and correlational research methods ANS
Descriptive research method is to observe and record behavior. Correlational research
method is to detect naturally occurring relationships . Nothing is manipulated in these
two research methods.
11. Biological Psychology ANS The basic assumption that everything psychological is
biological
12. Phrenology ANS A popular but wronged theory in the 1800's that claimed that
bumps on the skull could reveal mental abilities and character traits.
13. Sensory Neurons ANS Carry messages from the body's tissues and sensory organs
inward to the brain and spinal cord for processing
14. Motor Neurons ANS Carry Messages from the brain and out to the bodes tissues
