SOPHIA PATHWAYS Introduction to Psychology Smarter Decisions Through Psychology Milestone 1 100% correct
Discipline: Business Studies
Type of Paper: Question-Answer
Academic Level: Undergrad. (yrs 1-2)
Paper Format: APA
Question
__________ refers to how closely related two or more events, behaviors, or variables are.
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Correlation shows how much or what factors they have in common.
A formal trial to prove or disprove a hypothesis is called __________.
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An experiment works to account for and control all of the variables—all of the factors or parts of the hypothesis to prove its truth.
Which of the following schools of psychology examines concepts as a whole, rather than breaking them down into components?
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Gestalt theory says that "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts." It looks at patterns of behavior in their entirety.
Social differences, including gender, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, and __________, are studied from a sociocultural perspective.
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Money has a great deal of influence on our experience of the world. We study what our culture and society tell us is important about our economic status.
In which school of psychology is the mental process viewed as a flow of consciousness that cannot be broken down any further?
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Functionalism was the theory developed by William James after finding that mental events could not be broken into small parts.
Psychologists make guesses about behavioral processes, which is known as __________.
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Prediction is using past occurrences combined with statistical likelihood to make an educated guess as to what behavior may occur.
Cognitive psychology focuses on which of the following areas?
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Perception and memory are cognitive functions; so are learning, daydreaming, and planning. They occur in your mind.
Informed consent refers to which of the following?
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Permission is given after being told of possible side effects, the basic setup, and as much information about an experiment as can be given without changing the possible outcome of the experiment.
The results of the Stanford Prison Experiment demonstrated which of the following?
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Because the participants were randomly assigned to a role (guard or prisoner), the study showed the power of the social expectations on how they behaved.
__________ is a method of controlling bias in which both the experimenter and the subjects do not know who is experiencing the experimental conditions.
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Using a double-blind experiment ensures that the experimenters will not unwittingly bias the outcome.