Ch 2 Open Book Quiz AP Psych
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- 1.Which of the following is TRUE?
- A.
Hypnosis is an effective way to help people relive long buried or repressed memories
- B.
Electro-convulsive therapy is no longer used
- C.
Most people do not suffer from unrealistically low self-esteem
- D.
Opposites generally attract
- 2.Which of the following correlation coefficients indicates the strongest relationship between variables?
- A.
+ .05
- B.
- .25
- C.
+ .75
- D.
- .95
- 3.Which of the following represents the average score in a distribution?
- A.
Mode
- B.
Mean
- C.
Median
- D.
Standard deviation
- 4.After watching their favorite team lose a game, Emma and her friends commented to each other about how they had always known the loss was inevitable. Psychologists call this:
- A.
Illusory correlation
- B.
False consensus effect
- C.
Hindsight bias
- D.
Overconfidence
- 5.A significant disadvantage of the correlational approach is that it:
- A.
Does not provide evidence of cause & effect
- B.
Cannot be used to examine the relationship between variables
- C.
Does not aid in prediction
- D.
Does not provide info about how variables are related
- 6.After conducting an experiment Dr Fitzpatrick concluded that there was a statistically significant difference between the scores of the control group and the experimental group. In other words,
- A.
The difference is highly meaningful to scientists
- B.
The results are replicable
- C.
The scores differed by 5 points or more
- D.
It is unlikely the difference occurred by chance
- 7.Which 2 questions exemplify the scientific attitude?
- A.
What do you mean, How do you know?
- B.
Who believes you, what are their qualifications?
- C.
How common is this answer, How many people agree?
- D.
Is this an established truth? How long has this been believed?
- 8.The biggest danger to a case study is
- A.
They last too long
- B.
It is based on naturalistic observation
- C.
The subject may be atypical
- D.
Relies on correlational rather than causational evidence
- 9.The healing power of positive expectations is best illustrated by
- A.
Replication
- B.
Hindsight bias
- C.
The placebo effect
- D.
Overconfidence
- 10.When you read a bar graph it is most important you :
- A.
Mentally transform the data into a scatterplot
- B.
Note the range and size of the scale values
- C.
Identify the value of the standard deviation
- D.
Understand that correlation does not prove causation
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