10. Experimenters can justify the use of deception because ________.
a) there is informed consent c) it may be necessary for the experiment to work
b) research is more important than people d) it is not that harmful
Chapter 1 - Quick Quiz 1
Answer Key
1. d Explanation: These goals adequately help uncover the mysteries of behavior. (Topic: The Scientific Approach, Remember the Facts, LO 1.5 - Recall the five steps of the scientific approach)
2. b Explanation: William James was a functionalist. (Topic: The History of Psychology, Remember the Facts, LO 1.1 - Describe the contributions of some of the early pioneers in psychology)
3. b Explanation: Freud studied repressed conflict and Watson studied observable behavior. (Topic: The History of Psychology, Analyze It, LO 1.1 - Describe the contributions of some of the early pioneers in psychology)
4. b Explanation: Humanist theory focuses on free will and self-actualization. (Topic: The Field of Psychology Today, Remember the Facts, LO 1.3 - Summarize the basic ideas behind the seven modern perspectives in psychology)
5. c Explanation: Psychiatric social workers work with people in conditions of poverty or other types of environmental situations leading to mental disorder. (Topic: The Field of Psychology Today, Apply What You Know, LO 1.4 - Differentiate between the various types of professionals within the field of psychology)
6. b Explanation: In naturalistic observation, you are just watching—that is, observing. (Topic: The Scientific Approach, Apply What You Know, LO 1.6 - Compare and contrast some of the methods used to describe behavior)
7. b Explanation: A case study involves a detailed description of a particular individual. (Topic: The Scientific Approach, Remember the Facts, LO 1.6 - Compare and contrast some of the methods used to describe behavior)
8. a Explanation: A negative correlation means that high values of one variable are associated with low values of the other. (Topic: The Scientific Approach, Remember the Facts, LO 1.7 - Explain how researchers use the correlational technique to study relationships between two or more variables)
9. c Explanation: The single-blind study is an experiment in which participants do not know if they are in the experimental or the control group, but the experimenters do know which participants are part of which group. (Topic: The Scientific Approach, Remember the Facts, LO 1.9 - Recall two common sources of problems in an experiment, and some ways to control for these effects)
10. c Explanation: Deception is justified if the study wouldn’t work any other way. (Topic: Ethics of Psychological Research, Analyze It, LO 1.10 - Identify some of the common ethical guidelines for doing research with people)
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Chapter 1 - Quick Quiz 2
1. The question “What is happening?” refers to which of the following goals in psychology?
a) description c) prediction
b) explanation d) control