Suppose you were a graduate student studying for a PhD in psychology in the 1920s. Your advisor was strongly influenced by John B. Watson. Which of the following might your advisor consider an acceptable choice for your research?
a. a survey of daydreams
b. an analysis of how specific behaviors are acquired
c. a survey of sexual imagery in dreams of men and women
d. an analysis of the thought processes students report while answering test items
e. the achievement of self-actualization and why it is such a rarely seen occurrence
b. an analysis of how specific behaviors are acquired (Watson believed observable behavior should be the focus of scientific psychological study.)
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a. sensorimotor period b. preoperational period c. concrete operational period d. formal operational period
The z-score transformation is a useful statistical tool because it enables statisticians to
a. compare and interpret scores from virtually any distribution of interval or ratio scores. b. determine which interval or ratio scores are the "best" scores. c. transform interval or ratio data by multiplying by a constant. d. revise the shape of distributions to be more useful.
In order to neutralize order effects in a one factor repeated measures design it is necessary to _____
a. present the same order of treatments to the participants in the different groups b. present different orders of treatments to participants c. use different treatment levels for different participants d. randomly determine the particular treatment level given to each participant
The scientific, laboratorystudyof psychologybegan in the year ________
A) 1650 B) 1827 C) 1879 D) 1901