Chapter 1 Interactive Exercises

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1. Some early psychologists studied and reported on their own thoughts. For example, a person would solve a mathematical problem and then report on everything that went on in his mind during the time that he worked on the problem. What quality of science was missing in these studies?
2. Which of the following is true?
3. Learning from mistakes most closely corresponds to which of the following qualities of science.
4. "Show me the evidence " most closely corresponds to which of the following qualities of science?
5. Avoiding bias most closely corresponds to which of the following qualities of science?
6. Operational definitions are essential for all of the following except
7. According to some, iridology is the science of determining people´s health by looking at their eyes. Practitioners of this alleged science learn it through secret, closed-door seminars; do not try to verify their diagnoses through other means; and different practitioners will diagnose the same patient very differently. Iridology is
8. Some claim that psychoanalysis is not a science. They attack it by claiming that it lacks certain characteristics of science. For example, they may say that psychoanalytic explanations for a person´s behavior often fit with the facts, but are generally made after the fact. According to that attack, psychoanalysis is not scientific because it is
9. Some attack psychoanalysis, claiming that the unconscious is impossible to observe. According to that attack, psychoanalysis is not scientific because it is
10. Some attack psychoanalysis, claiming that the effectiveness of psychoanalysis does not appear to have improved in the last 20 years. According to that attack, psychoanalysis is not scientific because it is



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