Unit 1: History, Approaches, And Research Methods
This is a multiple-choice quiz based on Unit 1 Materials which includes classroom notes, discussions, and your readings in Chapters 5 & 6. Don't forget to track your answers on a separate sheet. The majority of these questions are based upon actual AP exam questions. Take your time, and RELAX!
- 1.Psychology is most currently defined as which of the following?
- A.
Science of mental life
- B.
Science of observable behavior
- C.
Science of behavior and mental processes
- 2.Which of the following early psychological thinkers believed that the mind was a blank slate and was shaped by experience?
- A.
John Locke
- B.
Rene Descartes
- C.
Socrates
- 3.Which of the following is NOT a common perspective in psychology?
- A.
Evolutionary
- B.
Neuroscience
- C.
Psychodynamic
- D.
Cognitive
- 4.One likely difference between a psychiatrist and clinical psychologist is that a psychiatrist would tend to use more
- A.
Talk therapy
- B.
Medications
- C.
Cognitive therapy
- 5.Which of the following is NOT a basic research technique used by psychologists?
- A.
Description
- B.
Replication
- C.
Correlational
- 6.In an experiment to determine the effects of exercise on motivation, exercise is the
- A.
Control condition
- B.
Intervening variable
- C.
Independent variable
- 7.A psychologist studies the play behavior of young children by watching groups during recess at school. Which type of research is being used?
- A.
Correlation
- B.
Case study
- C.
Experimentation
- 8.A lopsided set of scores that includes a number of extreme or unusual values is said to be
- A.
Symmetrical
- B.
Skewed
- 9.To prevent the possibility that a placebo effect or researchers' expectations will influence a study's results, scientists employ
- A.
Control groups
- B.
Experimental groups
- C.
Random assignment
- D.
Single blind studies
- 10.Joe believes that his basketball game is always best when he wears his old gray socks. Joe is a victim of the phenomenon we call
- A.
Statistical significance
- B.
Overconfidence
- C.
Hindsight bias
- 11.All of the following are measures of central tendency except
- A.
Mean
- B.
Mode
- C.
Median
- 12.What does the standard deviation represent in a set of data?
- A.
Average distance of a set of scores from the mean
- B.
The score that occurs most frequently in a set of data
- 13.Which one of the following correlations shows the strongest relationship between two variables?
- A.
+0.4
- B.
+0.38
- C.
-0.7
- 14.Which of these studies helps to provide evidence to both sides of the nature versus nurture debate?
- A.
Interractional studies
- B.
Parenting studies
- C.
Evolutionary studies
- 15.Which BIG QUESTION in psychology does the following refer to?There is a debate which exists in psychology arguing that ones behavior and attributes are either derived from one's environment or from one's genetics.
- A.
Behavior v. Science
- B.
Nature v. Nurture
- 16.Of the following, which can establish a cause and effect relationship?I. controlled experimentII. quasi-experimentIII. correlational research
- A.
I only
- B.
II only
- C.
I and II only
- D.
I and III only
- E.
I, II, and III
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