Psychology Questions

Blank-centerism is when a study is malefocused

This is defined as - Participants changing their behaviour/responses due to what they consider the most socially acceptable

* The variable that is measured by the researcher and influenced by the change in the independent variable

Blank sampling uses a pattern like every nth house in order to gain a sample of the target population.

Blank sampling - Selects anyone who is willing and able to take part.

in which tests does the calculated value need to be less than or equal to the critical value to be significant?

Wei watched himself in the mirror and was overcome with the remarkable insight that he was observing himself in the mirror. Wei is experiencing __________?

Dr. Ders is a psychotherapist who emphasizes the importance of relating to others as real people who have mixtures of virtues and vices. Dr. Ders is MOST likely a therapist in the tradition of ________ theory.

________ psychology is based on the premise that to understand a person, you must understand his or her unique view of reality.

Jimmy is a 5-year-old boy. When his parents leave him with a babysitter, he latches onto his stuffed animal, Tim. In the terminology of the object relations theorist D. W. Winnicott, Tim is a(n) ________?

Which of the following philosophers was NOT mentioned in the text as an existentialist thinker?

Some psychologists maintain that your relationships with other people are based on the images of them that you hold in your mind. Psychologists who emphasize this idea are known as ________ theorists.

All of the following elements make up humanistic psychology EXCEPT _________?

According to Melanie Klein, the ________ position refers to a child's desire to destroy the bad parts of an object because he or she fears being destroyed by them.

Existentialists would say that if Donna does not worry about existential concerns but instead focuses on getting a job, obtaining material wealth, or maintaining her friendships, then she will ________?

Katie begins online dating hoping she will meet her future husband and avoid becoming an old maid. Her attempt to avoid being alone is an example of a(n) _________?

The courage to face mortality and the apparent meaninglessness of life is called ________ by existential philosophers.

Imagine that you are participating in a psychology experiment. The experimenter asks you to take a bite of chocolate and to describe your experience of the chocolate—how it tastes, how it feels on your tongue, and so on. You would be involved in which method of psychological research?

Also known as Geworfenheit, ________ refers to the time, place, and circumstances into which you happened to be born.

Many current cognitive psychologists have adapted Freud's theory of the unconscious by stating that only a small fraction of psychological activity is conscious. This is known as _________?