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12thgrade
AP Psych Unit #1: Scientific Foundations of Psychology
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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is cognitive psychology?
Perceive, process, and remember information through mental processes
Focus on biological structures and processes
Focus on the conscious experiences and choices in our lives
How the natural selection of traits promotes survival of genes
- 2. Multiple Choice
A psychologist wants to see if people on the internet have influenced Dwayne. Which perspective should be used?
Behavioral
Biological
Sociocultural
Humanistic
- 3. Multiple Choice
Psychology can be defined as the study of:
Unconscious conflicts and drives.
Human biology.
Learning and perceiving one's environment.
Behavior and mental processes, such as thinking and emotion.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Which of the following perspectives deals with fear, desire, inner conflict, and childhood memories?
Cognitive
Behavioral
Humanistic
Psychoanalytic
- 5. Multiple Choice
Hormones, heredity, tumors, and disease all fall into the category of what psychological perspective?
Biological
Cognitive
Humanistic
Behavioral
- 6. Multiple Choice
What does the Humanistic Perspective focus on?
Learning and Logic
Thinking and Problem Solving
Traits and Genetics
Needs and Growth
- 7. Multiple Choice
A description of the procedures, actions, or processes by which variables can be observed and measured is known as what?
Operational Definition
Longitudinal Study
Random Assignment
Placebo Effect
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which correlation coefficient indicates the highest correlation?
0.92
-0.38
-0.11
0.67
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which correlation coefficient indicates the lowest correlation?
0.92
-0.38
-0.11
0.67
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is the term for a study conducted over a long period of time using the same group of people?
Longitudinal study
Case study
Survey
Cross-sectional study
- 11. Multiple Choice
A correlation coefficient __.
shows how spread out a set of data is
describes the variable being manipulated
measures the average of a set of data
describes the strength and direction of the relationship of two variables
- 12. Multiple Choice
It is commonly believed that going outside when the weather is cold and rainy will cause you to get a cold. This is not true. This is an example of a(n) __.
Illusory correlation
placebo effect
random assignment
experiment
- 13. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is a disadvantage of a case study?
It takes too long
It is not specific enough
It may not be a reliable representation of everyone, only that individual case
It may be biased
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following shows a negative correlation?
As the temperature goes up, the amount of ice cream sales increases.
The more absences Henry has, the lower his grades are.
The taller you are, the more candy you eat.
When you eat more food, your weight increases.
- 15. Multiple Choice
What is a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study?
Hypothesis
Theory
Operational Definition
Case Study
- 16. Multiple Choice
What must an operational definition have in it in order to be able to measure data?
Numbers
Correlations
Survey Questions
Rating Scale
- 17. Multiple Choice
In order to understand whether two variables are related to each other, a researcher would use which type of research method?
Case Study
Survey
Naturalistic Observation
Correlational
- 18. Multiple Choice
A procedure in which neither researchers nor participants know which group is the experimental group and which is the control group is known as
A Double-Blind Procedure.
A Single-Blind Procedure.
The Placebo Effect.
The Validity Effect.
- 19. Multiple Choice
An idea that is proposed so that it can be tested to see if it might be true is called
A hypothesis.
naturalistic observation.
the scientific method.
the operational definition.
- 20. Multiple Choice
What is the term for recording behavior in a natural environment without influencing any variables?
Experimentation
Survey
Naturalistic Observation
Case Study
- 21. Multiple Choice
If a researcher wants to predict if two variables are related to each other, which research method would they use?
Naturalistic Observation
Correlational
Case Study
Survey
- 22. Multiple Choice
A perfect positive correlation has a slope in a scatterplot closest to ____.
0.5
0
1
-1
- 23. Multiple Choice
What is the median of the data?
The most frequently occurring score
The middle score of a set of data
The mathematical average of the scores
The difference between the highest and lowest score
- 24. Multiple Choice
The most frequently occurring score(s) in a distribution is the ______.
Mode
Mean
Median
Range
- 25. Multiple Choice
The less soda I drink, the more energy I have. What type of correlation is this?
No correlation
Positive
Negative
All of the above
- 26. Multiple Choice
A teacher wants to find out the average score of their class's test. What should they use to figure it out?
Mode
Mean
Median
Range
- 27. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is not an ethical guideline created to safeguard human participants?
Informed consent
Protection from long-term physical or emotional harm
Choice of participation in experiment or control group
Anonymity &/or confidentiality
- 28. Multiple Choice
To graphically represent the correlation between two variables, researchers often construct a
bar graph.
scatterplot.
histogram.
frequency chart.
- 29. Multiple Choice
The IQ scores of the five members of the Jackson family are 100, 82, 104, 96, and 118. What is the range of these scores?
6
14
36
48
- 30. Multiple Choice
Which scatterplot shows the strongest negative relationship between the variables?
- 31. Multiple Choice
Tyler likes to eat tacos before tests. He thinks that when he eats more tacos before a test, his test score improves. After studying his test scores and taco eating habits, he finds this scenario to be true. In this scenario, which of these is the dependent variable?
number of tacos eaten
test scores
- 32. Multiple Choice
Tyler likes to eat tacos before tests. He thinks that when he eats more tacos before a test, his test score improves. After studying his test scores and taco eating habits, he finds this scenario to be false. The more tacos Tyler eats before a test, the lower his test scores are. This would be an example of a
Positive Correlation
Negative Correlation
Illusory Correlation
No Correlation
- 33. Multiple Choice
Bruno conducted a case study to see if the amount of time a person spent with their cat influenced their feelings of happiness about their cat. In this study, what would be the independent variable?
Amount of time spent with their cat
Feelings of happiness about their cat
- 34. Multiple Choice
If a case study found that as the number of hours Majesta spent with her cats increased, so did her feelings of happiness and contentment. This would be an example of
a negative correlation.
a positive correlation.
an illusory correlation.
No correlation.
- 35. Multiple Choice
Which of these is the only way to show or prove causation?
naturalistic observation
experiment
case study
survey
- 36. Multiple Choice
A perfect negative correlation has a slope in a scatterplot closest to ____.
0.5
0
1
-1
- 37. Multiple Choice
A scatterplot that shows no correlation has a slope closest to
0.5
0
1
-1
- 38. Multiple Choice
A procedure in which the participants do not know which group is the experimental group and which is the control group is known as
a Double-Blind Procedure.
a Single-Blind Procedure.
the Placebo Effect.
the Validity Effect.
- 39. Multiple Choice
The measure of the amount of variation, or how spread out a set of data is, is known as
Correlation.
Standard Deviation.
Range.
Validity.
- 40. Multiple Choice
Which set of data would have the highest standard deviation?
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
23, 23, 25, 26, 27, 32
1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25
50, 51, 56, 58, 59, 62
- 41. Multiple Choice
Which set of data would have the lowest standard deviation?
91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96
20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45
1, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50
33, 36, 43, 46, 50, 53
- 42. Multiple Choice
Which set of data would have the lowest standard deviation?
1, 4, 16, 32, 64, 70
67, 70, 74, 80, 87, 90
3, 30, 40, 50, 122, 250
33, 46, 53, 66, 70, 83
- 43. Multiple Choice
Which set of data would have the highest standard deviation?
1, 4, 16, 32, 64, 70
67, 70, 74, 80, 87, 90
3, 30, 40, 50, 122, 250
33, 46, 53, 66, 70, 83
- 44. Multiple Choice
Which color normal distribution chart has the largest variation and standard deviation?
Blue
Green
Yellow
Red
- 45. Multiple Choice
Which color normal distribution chart has the smallest variation and standard deviation?
Blue
Green
Yellow
Red
- 46. Multiple Choice
This distribution graph
is skewed positive.
is skewed negative.
is normally distributed.
has a mean of .5
- 47. Multiple Choice
This distribution graph
is skewed positive.
is skewed negative.
is normally distributed.
has a mean of 45
- 48. Multiple Choice
This distribution graph
is skewed positive.
is skewed negative.
is normally distributed.
has a mean of 45
- 49. Multiple Choice
This distribution graph
is skewed positive.
is skewed negative.
is normally distributed.
has a mean of 45
- 50. Multiple Choice
Torrin wants to do an experiment to see if teens eating breakfast improves their mood. He gets East Rochester High School to agree to be part of the experiment. Torrin randomly chooses 200 teenage students using a random number generator. He then randomly creates two groups: 100 that eat breakfast and 100 that don't eat breakfast.
What is the population of the experiment?
All teens from East Rochester High School
The 200 chosen teens from East Rochester
The 100 teens that eat breakfast
The 100 teens that don't eat breakfast
- 51. Multiple Choice
Torrin wants to do an experiment to see if teens eating breakfast improves their mood. He gets East Rochester High School to agree to be part of the experiment. Torrin randomly chooses 200 teenage students using a random number generator. He then randomly creates two groups: 100 that eat breakfast and 100 that don't eat breakfast.
What is the sample of the experiment?
All teens from East Rochester High School
The 200 chosen teens from East Rochester
The 100 teens that eat breakfast
The 100 teens that don't eat breakfast
- 52. Multiple Choice
In an experiment, the sample is
the entire group the experimenter gets participants from.
the people chosen to participate in the experiment.
assigning participants to experimental and control groups.
anyone willing to participate in an experiment.
- 53. Multiple Choice
In an experiment, the assignment is
the entire group the experimenter gets participants from.
the people chosen to participate in the experiment.
assigning participants to experimental and control groups.
anyone willing to participate in an experiment.
- 54. Multiple Choice
Finish the statement: "Correlation does not equal _____!"
causation
observation
deviation
standardization
- 55. Multiple Choice
What is the only way to prove one variable caused another variable?
naturalistic observation
experimentation
create a hypothesis
descriptive research
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