History and Approaches_Unit Review

Professor Reed attempts to assess the relative contributions of heredity and home environment on children's susceptibility to depression. Her research best illustrates the concerns of the ________ perspective.

The phenomena that observers can impact participant behavior is most indicative of:

Dr. Wilcox treats patients with severe diagnosable psychological disorders. Dr. Wilcox is most likely a(n) ________ psychologist.

In a class lecture, Professor Hampton emphasized the extent to which abnormal blood chemistry can contribute to psychological disorders. The professor's lecture highlighted a ________ perspective on psychological disorders.

When provided with the unscrambled solution to anagrams, people underestimate the difficulty of solving the anagrams by themselves. This best illustrates:

The American Psychological Association and British Psychological Society have developed ethical principles urging investigators to:

Professor Woo noticed that the distribution of students' scores on her last biology test had an extremely small standard deviation. This indicates that the:

In order to study the effects of noise on worker productivity, researchers have one group of subjects work in a noisy room and a second group work in a quiet room. To ensure that any differences in the productivity of the two groups actually result from the different noise levels to which the groups are exposed, the researchers would use:

Mr. and Mrs. Klostreich have six children aged 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, and 16. The mean age of the Klostreich children is:

In an experiment designed to study the effectiveness of a new drug, research participants who receive a placebo are participating in the ________ condition.

Dr. MacPherson believes that the way students organize and think about the information in their textbooks will strongly influence their ability to later remember and use what they have studied. Dr. MacPherson's ideas most directly exemplify the ________ perspective.

In order to learn about the political attitudes of all students enrolled at Arizona State University, Professor Marlow randomly selected 800 of these students to complete a questionnaire. In this instance, all the students enrolled at Arizona State University are considered to be a(n):

Slender women are considered especially beautiful in one country; in another country, stout women are seen as particularly attractive. In both countries, however, women perceived as very beautiful received preferential treatment. This best illustrates that _______ often underlie cultural differences.

A lopsided set of scores that includes a number of extreme or unusual values is said to be:

Dr. Salazar recently completed am experiment in which she compared reasoning ability in a sample of females and a sample of males. The means of the female and male samples equaled 21 and 19, respectively, on a 25-point scale. A statistical test revealed that her results were not statistically significant. What does this mean for Dr. Salazar?