AP Psych Review ChAPters 1-3 (Sbb)
This quiz is to test the knowledge of the students in Mr. Mohl's class room; serving as a review for chapters 1-3.
- 1.Who founded psychology?
- A.
B.F. Skinner
- B.
Sigmund Freud
- C.
Wilhem Wundt
- D.
John Mohl
- E.
G. Stanley Hall
- 2.Structuralism argued that psychology should
- A.
Analyze consciousness into it's basic elements
- B.
Focus on only the creative aspects/strengths that humans obtain.
- C.
Investigate the purpose of consciousness
- D.
Focus on one's observable behavior
- E.
Focus on how the subconscious affects one's behavior/mind
- 3.Carl Rodgers and Abraham Maslow were involved in _______ which found behaviorism and psychoanalysis unappealing.
- A.
The American Psychological Association
- B.
The positive psychology movement
- C.
The Western psychologists' opinions
- D.
The functionalism theory
- E.
The humanists revolt
- 4.Who's research of the following psychologists was known as the most controversial?
- A.
Wilhem Wundt's
- B.
B. F. Skinner's
- C.
Sigmund Freud's
- D.
G. Stanley Hall's
- E.
Abraham Maslow's
- 5.The ______ variable is influenced by the manipulation of the ______ variable.
- A.
Dependent; Independent
- B.
Experimental; Dependent
- C.
Larger; Smaller
- D.
Larger; Extraneous
- E.
Independent; Dependent
- 6.A survey consists of
- A.
A careful observation without a subject's intervention involved
- B.
Questionnaires and interviews to gather information about aspects of subject's behavior
- C.
Proof that two variables are casually related
- D.
Any data that can be graphed
- E.
Questions for each subject to answer but only while hypnotized
- 7.Correlation does not imply
- A.
Extraneous variables
- B.
Causation
- C.
Prediction
- D.
A sampling bias
- E.
Samples
- 8.An experimenter bias is when
- A.
A researcher's expectations of results of an experiment influence the outcome
- B.
A researcher allows a third variable to influence outcome
- C.
Experimenter gives a placebo
- D.
The sample is not random
- E.
Ethical issues are involved
- 9.The method for studying brain function that involves destroying a part of the brain in order to learn of it's function is known as
- A.
Lesioning
- B.
EEG
- C.
TMS
- D.
PET scans
- E.
CT scans
- 10.The _____ nerves are incoming while _____ nerves are outgoing.
- A.
Afferent; Confident
- B.
Efferent; Afferent
- C.
Larger; Smaller
- D.
Afferent; Efferent
- E.
Peripheral; Central
- 11.Cocaine acts as an agonist for which of the following neurotransmitters?
- A.
GABA
- B.
Dopamine
- C.
Norepinephrine
- D.
Serotonin
- E.
Acetylcholine
- 12.The hemisphere that handles verbal processing is the
- A.
Right hemisphere
- B.
Split hemisphere
- C.
Corpus Callosum
- D.
Both the left and the right hemispheres
- E.
Left hemisphere
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