PSY 102 CBT PRACTICE TEST

1. A ___________ experiment is an empirical study used to estimate the causal impact of an intervention on its target population.

2. A __________ is anything that can vary or that can be identified in more than one way, i.e. changed or be changed, such as memory, attention, time taken to perform a task, etc.

3. "adults will correctly recall more words than children". Is an example of Which HYPOTHESIS?

4. Copy - The steps in scientific investigation generally include ____ steps

5. Who defined a hypothesis as written in such a way that it can be proven or disproven by valid and reliable data.

6. The processing of information, perception, memory, problem solving, and consciousness is__

7. Which of the following is not part of the Characteristics of Science?

8. Humanistic Psychologists believe that an individual's behavior is connected to his

9. Various scales are employed in the field of measurement. Steven recognized some listed here except

10. _____ posts that learning is a central process in understanding human behaviour

11. ___________ is a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of General Laws

12. A ___________ is a precise, testable statement of what the researchers predict will be the outcome of the study.

13. The _________ investigation involve a process in which a "fair test" is designed, variables are manipulated in effort to gather evidence to support or refute a casual relationship

14. The educated guesses or answers to the problem is _

15. Psychological measurement is often referred to as

16. Empiricism states that the only source of Knowledge comes through our

17. Copy - _______ Argued that there was a clear distinction between body and Soul, believed very strongly in the influence of individual difference on behavior

18. ___________ is the extent to which people’s scores on a measure are correlated with other variables (known as criteria) that one would expect them to be correlated with

19. A ______ experiment is conducted in a well-controlled environment, not necessarily a laboratory, and therefore accurate measurements are possible.

20. ___________ Developed the First Psychology Laboratory in __________

21.

The key features of replication is that if we get same results over and over again under the same conditions, we can be sure of their

22. Empiricism was founded by

23. Alfred Binet was called the father of ______ testing.

24. Copy - ___________ Developed the First Psychology Laboratory in __________

25. ___________ Developed the First Psychology Laboratory in __________

26. The _________ is  defined  as  a  set  of  scores  with  a  mean  of  50  and  a  standard  deviation  of  10

27. Psychology is the science that studies behaviour and what goes on in the___ that causes behaviour to occur.

28. The steps in scientific investigation generally include ____ steps

29. _______ Argued that there was a clear distinction between body and Soul, believed very strongly in the influence of individual difference on behavior

30. ___________ is the extent to which scores on a measure are not correlated with measures of variables that are conceptually distinct.

31. Copy - A __________ is anything that can vary or that can be identified in more than one way, i.e. changed or be changed, such as memory, attention, time taken to perform a task, etc.

32. Psychology can be traced back to ancient greece of

33. Copy - Psychology can be traced back to ancient greece of

34. The __________ of a score is a single number which gives the percentage of cases in the specific reference group, scoring at or below that score.

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36. The prime Empirical methods of inquiry in Science is the

37. The ___________ investigation involve describing and/or quantifying parts of a natural system

38. _________ is the extent to which the scores from a measure represent the variable they are intended to

39. The following are assumptions made by Scientists to have confidence in the capacity of scientific research to achieve Solutions to questions & Problems except