A psychologist expects that rats raised in toy-filled cages will become better learner. This expectation of him is ___________?

A. Research hypothesis
B. Observer expectancy effect
C. Independent variable
D. Inferential statistics

For which school of thought was psychology decidedly not the science of the mind?

A. Structuralism
B. Behaviorism
C. Gestalt psychology
D. Psychoanalysis

The most distinctive aspect of Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis is the belief that the conscious mind is influenced by ___________?

A. Innate factors
B. Learning and experience
C. External stimuli
D. Unconscious thought processes

In a study of the effects of alcohol consumption, some participants drank a nonalcoholic beverage that actually smelled and tested like alcohol. This nonalcoholic drink was a ___________?

A. Replication
B. Placebo
C. Random sample
D. Double blind

Social psychology is the study of __________?

A. How the behavior of individuals is influenced by others
B. How the behavior of groups is influenced by their cultural heritage
C. How the behavior of individuals in influenced by the their cultural heritage
D. All of the above

The dominant approach in psychology today is ____________?

A. Physiological psychology
B. Cognitive psychology
C. Ethnology
D. Behaviorism

The term ‘cognition’ means ___________?

A. Free will
B. Knowledge
C. Observation
D. Objectivity

Which branch of psychology is defined as an effort to understand the specific biological mechanisms that control behavior and psychological experience?

A. Ethnology
B. Neuropsychology
C. Physiological psychology
D. Structuralism

___________were major figures in behaviorism ?

A. John b. watson and b.f. skinner
B. Jean piaget and john
B. Watson c. noam chomsky and jean piaget
D. B.f. skinner and noam chomsky

Jean Piaget, contributed generally to cognitive psychology through his accounts of ___________?

A. Animal behavior in the natural environment
B. Intellectual development in children
C. The mental rules underlying languages use
D. Information processing in computers