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Quiz por Chris Astill, atualizado more than 1 year ago
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Criado por Chris Astill
aproximadamente 8 anos atrás
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Questão 1
Questão
Psychology involves studying the mind at one specific level of explanation.
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- True
- False
Questão 2
Questão
Science is a body of knowledge consisting of all the findings that scientists have discovered.
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- True
- False
Questão 3
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Scientific experiments work by trying to test the predictions of researchers' theories.
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- True
- False
Questão 4
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In general, scientists are just as prone to confirmation bias as non-scientists.
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- True
- False
Questão 5
Questão
A scientific hypothesis is essentially the same thing as a scientific theory, only more specific in its predictions.
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- True
- False
Questão 6
Questão
Most forms of psychotherapy have been tested.
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- True
- False
Questão 7
Questão
According to terror management theory, our fears of death are an important reason for pseudoscientific beliefs.
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- True
- False
Questão 8
Questão
Humans' tendency to see patterns in random data in entirely maladaptive.
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- True
- False
Questão 9
Questão
A logical fallacy has occured whenever we arrive at false conclusions.
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- True
- False
Questão 10
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Research on the bias blind spot implies that we often do not perceive biases in people to whom we are emotionally close.
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- True
- False
Questão 11
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Scientific scepticism requires a willingness to keep an open mind to all claims.
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- True
- False
Questão 12
Questão
When evaluating a psychological claim, we should keep in mind other possible explanations for it.
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- True
- False
Questão 13
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Occam's razor implies that the simpler of two explanations is the true one.
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- True
- False
Questão 14
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A risky prediction is one that stands a good chance of being wrong if the theory generating it is also wrong.
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- True
- False
Questão 15
Questão
When psychological findings are replicated, it is especially important that the replications be conducted by the same team of investigators.
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- True
- False
Questão 16
Questão
Behaviourism focuses on discovering the general laws of learning in animals rather than humans
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- True
- False
Questão 17
Questão
Cognitive psychologists argue that psychological theories must account for how people interpret the meaning of the events which act as rewards and punishments.
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- True
- False
Questão 18
Questão
Advocates of determinism believe that free will is an illusion.
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- True
- False
Questão 19
Questão
Studying discrimination in the lab is applied research, while investigating which colour of motor vehicle is involved in fewest traffic accidents is basic research.
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- True
- False
Questão 20
Questão
Achievement tests such as the HSC do no better than chance at predicting students' performance at university.
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- True
- False
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