A researcher trained in self-observation uses himself as the subject and tries to break his immediate experience into its elements. In whose laboratory would this most likely take place?
Correct answer B. Edward Titchener
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What is any procedural factor that makes a sample unrepresentative of its population called?
Correct answer B. sample bias
The ability to exercise precise control over a variable distinguishes which method from other methods of scientific observation?
Correct answer A. Experimental
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Psychologists interested in the perception of motion, part-whole relationships and size judgement belonged to which school?
Correct answer A. Gestalt
On which issue are the biological and behavioural perspectives most likely to differ?
Correct answer A. nature versus nurture
In the nineteenth century, psychology emerged mainly from developments in which two areas?
Correct answer B. Science and philosophy
Which perspective in psychology would most stress that people can learn to give up bad habits such as smoking?
Correct answer A. Behavioural
Which of the following is NOT a genuine specialty recognised by the American Psychological Association?
Correct answer C. astrological psychology
Which perspective in psychology is most concerned with identifying the limits of human reasoning?
Correct answer C. Cognitive
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Which philosophical movement held that the human mind consists of elementary ideas originating in sensory experience?
Correct answer A. Empiricism
What makes the psychoanalytic perspective distinctive in explaining behaviour?
Correct answer A. unconscious desires and unresolved conflicts
What is the most reliable way to test whether a new psychological therapy is truly effective?
Correct answer B. Experimental research
In which type of research is a representative sample of people asked questions about their behaviour or opinions?
Correct answer B. The survey
Psychologists who carefully observe chimpanzee behaviour in the wild are using which research method?
Correct answer A. naturalistic observation
Which psychologists are most likely to be involved in applied research?
Correct answer A. Industrial/organisational psychologists
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In Titchener’s research on the most elementary sensory experiences, introspection involved giving a detailed verbal report on what?
Correct answer A. One's own conscious sensory experience
Who was the first of these people to insist that psychology should be limited to the scientific study of observable behaviour?
Correct answer B. Watson
Being aware of wide cultural differences in attitudes and values helps most in avoiding which error?
Correct answer C. The false consensus effect
Which school of thought saw psychology as a search for the mind’s basic elements and the laws that combine them?
Correct answer D. Structuralism
If psychologists found that wealthy people are less satisfied with their marriages than poorer people, what would this show about wealth and marital satisfaction?
Correct answer C. negatively correlated