Chapter 1 questions

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What are the four basic goals psychology attempts to accomplish and why?

Describe, understand, predict, and control; benefit humanity by figuring out human and animal behavior

What are the three major perspectives or views in contemporary psychology?

Science, behavior, and mental processes

Describe how a strict behaviorist would explain behavior, how does this viewpoint differ from humanistic psychology?

Behaviorists believe behavior is derived from conditioning whereas humanists believe in free will and voluntary choices

Positive Correlation

High school grades and college grades

Negative Correlation

Video games and grades

No correlation

Running and stars in the sky

Explain why random assignment is important in an experiment

Helps eliminate differences between the experimental and control group

Why would the use of a placebo be important when conducting a drug experiment

To observe changes in behavior and test the treatments of the real drug

What is the primary difference between a correlation study and an experiment?

Correlation implies a relationship between 2 variables and experiment refers to how the data was collected

Type of information obtained from directly observing and measuring behavior

empirical

Which psychological perspective uses thoughts, perceptions, and memory as a means to explain human behavior?

Cognitive