PSY 220 Exam 1
Ms. Strickland has observed that students in her 9th grade class sleep in class much
more than students in her 5th grade class. She concludes that adolescents sleep in
class more than elementary children. Ms Strickland has used _______ to arrive at the
conclusion that adolescents sleep more in class.
A. induction
B. deduction
C. intuition
D. authority figures - CORRECT ANSWER-A. induction
______ focuses on verifying hypotheses as the key criterion of science.
A. Falsificationism
B. Logical Positivism
C. Deduction
D. Pseudoscience - CORRECT ANSWER-B. Logical Positivism
Popper argued that science should make bold hypotheses and then conduct research to
see if they could ______ the hypotheses.
A. support
B. refute/falsify
C. support or falsify
D. control - CORRECT ANSWER-B. refute/falsify
Naturalism focuses on _________ in the evaluation of knowledge and theories.
A. philosophical arguments
B. empirical adequacy
C. intuition
D. appeal to authority - CORRECT ANSWER-B. empirical adequacy
There are several methods of acquiring knowledge. When Julie says she knows that
"girls are kinder than boys" because she has a gut feeling about it, but she does not
have any reason or evidence for her claim, she seems to be relying on
A. Intuition
B. Authority
C. Rationalism
D. Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER-A. Intuition
Rationalism alone is not sufficient for developing scientific knowledge because
A. It relies on empirical observations
B. It relies on intuition
C. People using only rationalism may reach different conclusions and not have a way to
determine if one is more correct than the other
, D. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER-C. People using only rationalism may reach
different conclusions and not have a way to determine if one is more correct than the
other
Empiricism is the acquisition of knowledge through
A. intuition
B. induction
C. experience/observation
D. deduction - CORRECT ANSWER-C. experience/observation
The assumptions of science include:
A. uniformity
B. reality
C. discoverability
D. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER-D. all of the above
A quantitative research approach that aggregates the findings from multiple studies on a
specific topic is called
A. meta-analysis
B. replication
C. operationalism
D. falsificationism - CORRECT ANSWER-A. meta-analysis
The logic of justification in theory generation relies on
A. induction
B. deduction
C. operationalism
D. pseudoscience - CORRECT ANSWER-B. deduction
Research that manipulates an independent variable to measure cause and effect
relationships is called
A. Descriptive
B. Exploratory
C. Qualitative
D. Experimental - CORRECT ANSWER-D. Experimental
___________ variables vary by degree or amount.
A. Categorical
B. Constant
C. Quantitative/Continuous
D. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER-C. Quantitative/Continuous
Ms. Strickland has observed that students in her 9th grade class sleep in class much
more than students in her 5th grade class. She concludes that adolescents sleep in
class more than elementary children. Ms Strickland has used _______ to arrive at the
conclusion that adolescents sleep more in class.
A. induction
B. deduction
C. intuition
D. authority figures - CORRECT ANSWER-A. induction
______ focuses on verifying hypotheses as the key criterion of science.
A. Falsificationism
B. Logical Positivism
C. Deduction
D. Pseudoscience - CORRECT ANSWER-B. Logical Positivism
Popper argued that science should make bold hypotheses and then conduct research to
see if they could ______ the hypotheses.
A. support
B. refute/falsify
C. support or falsify
D. control - CORRECT ANSWER-B. refute/falsify
Naturalism focuses on _________ in the evaluation of knowledge and theories.
A. philosophical arguments
B. empirical adequacy
C. intuition
D. appeal to authority - CORRECT ANSWER-B. empirical adequacy
There are several methods of acquiring knowledge. When Julie says she knows that
"girls are kinder than boys" because she has a gut feeling about it, but she does not
have any reason or evidence for her claim, she seems to be relying on
A. Intuition
B. Authority
C. Rationalism
D. Empiricism - CORRECT ANSWER-A. Intuition
Rationalism alone is not sufficient for developing scientific knowledge because
A. It relies on empirical observations
B. It relies on intuition
C. People using only rationalism may reach different conclusions and not have a way to
determine if one is more correct than the other
, D. All of the above - CORRECT ANSWER-C. People using only rationalism may reach
different conclusions and not have a way to determine if one is more correct than the
other
Empiricism is the acquisition of knowledge through
A. intuition
B. induction
C. experience/observation
D. deduction - CORRECT ANSWER-C. experience/observation
The assumptions of science include:
A. uniformity
B. reality
C. discoverability
D. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER-D. all of the above
A quantitative research approach that aggregates the findings from multiple studies on a
specific topic is called
A. meta-analysis
B. replication
C. operationalism
D. falsificationism - CORRECT ANSWER-A. meta-analysis
The logic of justification in theory generation relies on
A. induction
B. deduction
C. operationalism
D. pseudoscience - CORRECT ANSWER-B. deduction
Research that manipulates an independent variable to measure cause and effect
relationships is called
A. Descriptive
B. Exploratory
C. Qualitative
D. Experimental - CORRECT ANSWER-D. Experimental
___________ variables vary by degree or amount.
A. Categorical
B. Constant
C. Quantitative/Continuous
D. all of the above - CORRECT ANSWER-C. Quantitative/Continuous
