Activity for the book My Psychology

Instructions

Listen to the following podcast and then answer the questions that follow.

Question 1

Which of the following is true of the discipline of psychology?

Choice A, Psychology only refers to therapists who treat patients.

Choice B, Psychology focuses on discussions of theory, leaving research to other disciplines.

Choice C, Psychology is a diverse discipline with many theoretical perspectives and subfields.

Choice D, Psychology involves research, but the standards are lower than in other disciplines.

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Question 2

Which example did Dr. Tam present in the podcast as evidence of the common misperception that all psychology is clinical psychology?

Choice A, Each time she attended a family gathering and her psychology studies came up, her family members remarked it was good that someone could “fix” the family.

Choice B, After telling her dentist she was studying industrial and organizational psychology, he immediately began telling her all about his problems.

Choice C, When she told her father she was studying social psychology, he asked when he could set up their first family therapy appointment.

Choice D, Any time she meets new people and describes her psychology studies, they begin to describe their life problems and ask for her advice.

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Question 3

Which of the following is the best real-life example of behaviorism?

Choice A, Waking from a dream and trying to figure out what it means

Choice B, Trying to understand what your best friend is thinking

Choice C, Choosing to participate in activities that best match your self-actualization tendencies

Choice D, Being punished or rewarded for certain actions when you were growing up

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Question 4

What is an important takeaway of the biopsychosocial theory of psychology?

Choice A, Rather than labeling a single theory as correct, behavior is often best explained by integrating the strongest elements of competing theories.

Choice B, There’s typically one theoretical perspective that best explains different human behaviors.

Choice C, Behaviors are generally explained by considering how genes interact with the way humans think while environment has insignificant impact.

Choice D, The environment a person is raised in entirely molds their genes, thinking, and behavior.

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Question 5

What does the peer review process refer to?

Choice A, Research results are posted online so the public can share their thoughts and opinions.

Choice B, Sharing research with friends who review written results to let you know if they make sense to a person who doesn’t study psychology.

Choice C, A researcher gets together with their peers to review published research before embarking on a joint research project.

Choice D, Submitting research to a panel of experts in the field who evaluate whether the work meets standards to make it worthy of sharing.

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Question 6

Lia wakes up and recalls dreaming of being chased by a large dog in a tie. She feels it must mean something and concludes her tie-wearing boss must be stressing her out. Which of the following psychology perspectives does her thinking align with most?

Choice A, Behaviorism

Choice B, Humanism

Choice C, Psychoanalysis

Choice D, Evolutionary

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Question 7

According to Dr. Pomerantz, which of the following is a recent concern when it comes to the peer review process?

Choice A, There are many non-psychologists falsely posing as peer reviewers, meaning students should not trust any online psychology-based findings.

Choice B, There is a recent increase in publication options that are not peer reviewed, meaning students should think critically about online results.

Choice C, The peer review process has become less reliable with novices entering the field, meaning students should question results published in peer-reviewed journals.

Choice D, The peer review process keeps valid research from being published, meaning students should seek out research results that have been published outside of the peer-review process.

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Question 8

In the podcast, which of the following did Dr. Szeli share as a personal example of a correlational fallacy?

Choice A, She had a brother who would only wear the same pair of socks every time he played in his tournament soccer games, because he once won a big game with them.

Choice B, She had an exceptionally short brother and her parents thought he should play basketball so he would get taller.

Choice C, She had a friend who refused to schedule dates during a full moon because she had one bad date on a night with a full moon.

Choice D, She had a college roommate who would always wear the same “lucky” t-shirt during exam time because she passed an exam she was unprepared for while wearing it.

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Question 9

Which of the following is true of correlations?

Choice A, When two things are correlated, that means one of them caused the other.

Choice B, The numerical range of correlation coefficients is from 0 to 1.

Choice C, Just because two things are correlated does not mean one causes the other.

Choice D, When two things are correlated, there is always a causal relationship between them.

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Question 10

According to Dr. Tam, which of the following is true about the findings reported from research in the field of psychology?

Choice A, Psychological research explains generalities and averages found within the population, but does not always apply to everyone.

Choice B, Research results apply to all individuals who match characteristics of the people studied.

Choice C, Psychology research results only apply to the individuals who are studied.

Choice D, Research results in psychology are unreliable because they are not obtained using the scientific method.

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