Psychology Practice
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- What correlation is present If data indicated that the more one studied for a test, the higher his or her test scores would be?
- Positive
- Which of the folloing is the most accurate definition of the discipline of psychology today?
- the science of behaviors and mental processes
- Why can psychology be described as a science?
- Psychologists attempt to uncover the causes of events by systematically collecting empirical evidence
- Questions about the acceptability of exposing children to violent video games in order to determine the effects of exposure to violence on aggression addresses what kind of concerns of research?
- ethical
- Self-actualization refers to
- developing one's fullest postential
- Who was the first woman awarded a Ph. D in psychology?
- Margaret Washburn
- The idea that behavior must be judged relative to the values of the culture in which it occurs is known as what?
- ethnocentrism
- In your study of aggression, you decided to measure aggression as the number of times your subjects hit a Bobo doll within a a5-minute time frame. In this case , how have you defined the abstract idea of aggression?
- Operationally
- Experiments attempt to establish what kind of relationship?
- Casual Relationship
- Any false and unscientific system of beliefs and practices, such as astrology, that is offered as an explanation of behavior is referred to as a
- pseudopsychology