Provide a general description of three of Alfred Binet's major contributions to developmental psychology
What will be an ideal response?
Alfred Binet demonstrated that the study of individual differences contributes to the understanding of human development. He provided the basis for more formal tests of children's mental abilities. He also helped to develop an instrument that could identify patterns in mental abilities that are unique to each child.
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According to Alfred Adler, what is natural for all people?
a. Striving for superiority b. The collective unconscious c. A progression through stages of psychosexual development d. Childhood sexual fantasies
Discuss the methodological and ethical problems of the Stanford prison experiment. How might you investigate this topic in a better way?
What will be an ideal response?
A person who enrolls in a course in the field of death, dying, and bereavement because "no important person in my life has yet died but I am concerned about what that experience might be like" is primarily expressing a concern about:
a. vocational reasons b. a current death-related experience c. intellectual curiosity about the subject d. an unresolved death-related experience e. all of these
Dr. Kwan's hypothesizes that allowing factory employees to listen to music while working will improve productivity. After conducting the experiment,
Dr. Kwan finds that the group of participants who were allowed to listen to music was more productive than the group who did not, but this difference was not statistically significant. What should Dr. Kwan conclude about the difference between the two groups? A) It supports his hypothesis. B) He is likely to find the same effect if he replicated the study. C) There is an unacceptable chance that the difference is due to random chance. D) The experiment was biased.