PSYC 401.

04 Introduction to Psychology
University of New Hampshire
Quiz 1
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1. Random _____ reduces the effect of potential confounds by ensuring that people across
conditions do not differ at the outset of the study.
Sampling
Distribution
Selection
Assignment

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2. Changing how questions are asked to survey participants:

Enables researchers to reduce variability
Is one way to fix problem questions
Enables questions to be tailored to specific people
Is a research flaw

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3. Dwayne created a measurement for perceptions of fairness. After multiple surveys, he

found that his new scale consistently measured perceptions of happiness. We could
describe Dwaynes scale as having
Low reliability and low validity
High reliability and low validity
Low reliability and high validity
High reliability and high validity

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4. What is Psychology?
The study of people in their culture
Using intuition of researchers to analyze the brain for predicting behavior
Not a science, but a collection of guesses on how people think
Science examining a person, mind, and the brain to predict behavior

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5. We provide benefits to someone who is a part of our social circle thus influencing their
behavior towards us. This finding is an example of what level of analysis?
Humanistic
Person
Mind
Brain

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6. The belief that the brain and the body are fundamentally the same thing is known as
Monoism
Structuralism
Nativism
Dualism

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7. If you are going to study behavior, you have to be able to observe it and measure it. You
cannot observe a thought. Who am I?
Sigmund Freud
Abraham Maslow
Franz Joseph Gall
James Watson

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8. Which question can be answered using the scientific method (without altering it)?
Is it okay to steal food when hungry?
Are married people happier than single people?
Why are people superstitious?
If a chicken had lips could it whistle?

9.
The purpose of an Institutional Review Board (IRB) is to weigh the:
A) benefits to society and costs to participants of a proposed study independent of the
research team.
B) benefits to a proposed study while considering a researchers qualifications.
C) financial costs for a proposed study compared to the risks associated with participation.
D) only the financial costs of a study to the institution.
10. Alex operationally defined social pressure as the number of times a student goes out to
the bar even while not in the mood. The data he will receive is an example of.
A) Quantitative Data
B) Physiological Data
C) Reliable Data
D) Qualitative Data