Psychology Concepts Quiz 1
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What is the nature-nurture debate about?

  • Whether our behaviors are solely due to our genes
  • Whether our behaviors are predetermined and unchangeable
  • Whether our behaviors are due to our genes (nature) or due to our environments (nurture) (correct)
  • Whether our behaviors are solely due to our environments

    • What does the replicability principle in research refer to?

  • The ability to duplicate study findings in other research (correct)
  • The process of carefully reflecting and reporting on mental experiences
  • The ability to disprove a hypothesis
  • The association between two variables

    • What is the causation error in research?

  • Assuming that correlation implies causation
  • Failing to consider simpler explanations
  • Disregarding the influence of genetics on behavior
  • Assuming that because one thing is associated with another, it must cause the other (correct)

    • What is the premise that knowledge should initially be acquired through observation?

    <p>Empiricism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the tendency to seek out evidence that supports our beliefs and deny evidence that contradicts them?

    <p>Confirmation bias</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the error of using our emotions as guides for evaluating the validity of a claim?

    <p>Emotional reasoning fallacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the belief that we see the world precisely as it is?

    <p>Naive realism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the error of assuming that a claim is correct just because many people believe it?

    <p>Bandwagon fallacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the assertion about the world that is not testable?

    <p>Metaphysical claims</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the awareness of our death leaving us with an underlying sense of terror which we cope with by adopting reassuring cultural worldviews?

    <p>Terror management theory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the error of believing that we're immune from errors in thinking that afflict other people?

    <p>Not me fallacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the focus of evolutionary psychology?

    <p>Applying Darwin’s theory of natural selection to human and animal behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the nature-nurture debate concerned with?

    <p>Determining whether behaviors are due to genes (nature) or environments (nurture)</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the causation error in research?

    <p>Assuming that because one thing is associated with another, it must cause the other</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the belief that we see the world precisely as it is?

    <p>Naive realism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the error of assuming that a claim is correct just because many people believe it?

    <p>Bandwagon fallacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the error of framing a question as though we can answer it in only one of two extreme ways?

    <p>Either-or fallacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the tendency to detect meaningful patterns in random stimuli?

    <p>Patternicity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the error of using our emotions as guides for evaluating the validity of a claim?

    <p>Emotional reasoning fallacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the belief that we’re immune from errors in thinking that afflict other people?

    <p>Not me fallacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the error of believing that a claim is correct just because it has not been proven false?

    <p>Ad hoc immunizing hypothesis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for evaluating all claims with an open mind but insisting on persuasive evidence before accepting them?

    <p>Scientific skepticism</p> Signup and view all the answers

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