AP Psych Mini Quiz Questions (All Units)

Psychologists that compare different methods of teaching children testing the efficacy of a program to help quit smoking are examples of what type of research?

Applied Research

psychologists who study how people form attitudes about others or how people in different cultures define intelligence are examples of what type of research?

Basic Research

What psychological perspective would explain a persons's tendency to be extroverted in terms of reward and punishment ?

Behavioral Perpective

What psychological perspective would explain a person's tendency to be extroverted is caused by genes inherited and the genes effects on the abundance of certain neurotransmitters in the brain?

Biopsychology (Neuroscience) perspective

What psychological perspective would explain extroversion by focusing on several influences such as genetic tendencies, social pressures, and how they have been conditioned?

Biopsychosocial Perspective

What psychological perspective would explain how an extrovert interprets social situations and that an extrovert sees the world as being outgoing makes sense?

Cognitive Perpective

What psychological perspective would explain a person is extroverted because it is a survival advantage passed down to them allowing them to make friends and allies?

Evolutionary (Darwinian/Sociobiology) Perspective

If one created an experiment and divided up the males and females then randomly assign half of each group to each condition so that half the females and half the males are in each different groups (doesn't mean same amount of males and females per group) is an example of what?

Group matching

What psychological perspective could explain why introverts are better satisfied by contact with a few close friends rather than a large group?

Humanistic perspective

What psychological perspective would explain that introverts avoid social situations because a repressed memory of trauma in childhood social situations?

Psychoanalytic perspective

What psychological perspective would explain a person's tendency to be extroverted by examining his or her culture's rules about social interaction?

Sociocultural Perpective

Dividing up the population by race then making sure your sample is proportionate to the amount of people of each race is an example of?

Stratified Sampling

which of the following psychologists wrote the first psychology textbook? a) William James b) Wilhelm Wundt c) B. F. Skinner d) John Watson e) Albert Bandura

a) William James

the research methodology Wilhelm Wundt is called... a) introspection b) structuralism c) naturalistic observation d) inferential e) scientific

a) introspection

behaviorists explain human thought and behavior as a result of... a) past conditioning b) unconscious behavioral impulses c) natural selection d) biological process e) individual choice

a) past conditioning

Karthik and Sue are lab partners assigned to research who is friendlier, girls or boys. after conversing with their first 10 participants, they find that their friendliness ratings often differ. with which of the following should they be most concerned? a) reliability b) confounding variables c) ethics d) validity e) assignment

a) reliability

what is the median of the following distribution: 6, 2, 9, 4, 7, 3? a) 4 b) 5 c) 5.5 d) 6 e) 6.5

b) 5

which of the following is an example of random sampling? I. picking out of a hat to assign each of the three classes to an experimental condition II. having a computer generate a random list of 100 high school students III. approaching any 50 students during sixth-period lunch a) I only b) II only c) III only d) I and II e) I, II, and III

b) II only

Jen collects survey data that indicates that students who spend more time preparing for the AP test tend to score better than other students. Jen can now conclude that... a) studying improves test grades b) a relationship exists between studying and exam grades c) a significant correlation exists between studying and exams d) anyone who does not study will do poorly on the exam e) better students tend to study more

b) a relationship exists between studying and exam grades

one of the principle differences between the ethical guidelines for human and animal research is: a) human subjects can be deceived for experimental purpose and animals cannot b) animal subjects can be placed at much greater physical risk than human subjects can c) human subjects must be chosen much more carefully than animal subjects d) if human might physically suffer because of the study, the suffering must be minimal, in contrast to animal studies where any amount of suffering is ethical if it helps to further a clear scientific purpose e) environmental conditions for human studies must be monitored much more closely than they are in animal study

b) animal subjects can be placed at much greater physical risk than human subjects can

Dr. Marco explains to a client that his feelings of hostility toward a coworker are most likely caused by the way the client interprets the coworker's actions and they way he thinks that people should behave at work. Dr. Marco is most likely working from what perspective? a) behaviorally b) cognitive c) psychoanalytic d) humanist e) social-cultural

b) cognitive

Professor Ma wants to design a project studying emotional response to date rape. He advertises for participants in the school newspaper, informs them about the nature of the study, gets their consent, conducts an interview, and debriefs them about the result when the experiment is over. if you were on the IRB, which ethical consideration would you most concern about Professor Ma's study? a) coercion b) deception c) confounding variables d) anonymity e) clear scientific purpose

b) deception

psychologists generally prefer the experimental method to other research methods because... a) experiments are more likely to support psychologists' hypothesis b) experiments can show cause-effect relationship c) it is easier to obtain a random sample for an experiment d) double-blind designs are unnecessary in an experiment e) experiments are more likely to result in statistically significant findings

b) experiments can show cause-effect relationship

B. F. Skinner introduced the idea of _________ to the paradigm of behaviorism. a) unconscious thinking b) reinforcement c) conditioning d) defense mechanism e) introspection

b) reinforcement

some psychologists consider Stanley Milgram's obedience studies to be unethical because of which ethical consideration? a) improper sampling procedure b) risk of long-term harm c) clear scientific purpose d) debriefing e) anonymity

b) risk of long-term harm

Which of the following psychologist might have described himself as a humanist? a) B.F. Skinner b) William James c) Abraham Maslow d) John Watson e) Ivan Pavlov

c) Abraham Maslow

a therapist who says that she uses whatever psychological perspective "works best" for each patients might be best described as... a) social-cultural b) humanist c) eclectric d) psychoanalytic e) functionalist

c) eclectric

Sandy scores a perfect 100 on a test that everyone else fails. if we were to graph this distribution, it would be... a) symmetrical b) normal c) positively skewed d) negatively skewed e) a straight line

c) positively skewed

symbolic dream analysis might be an important research technique to a psychologist from which of the following perspectives? a) behaviorist b) biopsychologist c) psychoanalytic d) evolutionary e) structuralist

c) psychoanalytic

you are at a lecture about the history of psychology and the speaker states that William Wundt's theory of structuralism was the first scientific psychological theory. on what historical fact might the speaker be basing her or his argument? a) Wundt was internationally known at the time, and this lent credence to his theory in scientific community b) Wundt studies under Ivan Pavlov for his graduate training, and Pavlov required scientific methods to be used c) structuralism was based on the results of his introspection experiments, so it is, at least in part, empirical d) structuralism was based on careful anecdotes gathered from Wundt's extensive clinical career e) Wundt was the first person to study psychology in an academic setting

c) structuralism was based on the results of his introspection experiments, so it is, at least in part, empirical

which of the following concepts is most integral to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory? a) trephining b) structuralism c) the unconscious mind d) the concept of Gestalt e) behaviorism

c) the unconscious mind

John Watson relied on the pioneering work of ________ in establishing behaviorism as a paradigm of psychology. a) B. F. Skinner b) Wilhelm Wundt c) William James d) Ivan Pavlov e) Sigmund Freud

d) Ivan Pavlov

in what way might a behaviorist disagree with a cognitive psychologist about the cause of aggression? a) a behaviorist might state that aggression is caused by memories or ways we think about aggressive behavior, while a cognitive psychologist might say aggression is caused by a past repressed experience b) a behaviorist might state that aggression is a behavior encouraged by our genetic code, while a cognitive psychologist might state that aggression is caused by memories or ways we think about aggressive behavior c) a behaviorist might state that aggression is caused by past rewards for aggressive behavior, while a cognitive psychologist might believe aggression is caused by an expressed desire to fulfill certain life needs d) a behaviorist might state that aggression is caused by past rewards for aggressive behavior, while a cognitive psychologist might state that aggression is caused by memories or ways we think about aggressive behavior e) a behaviorist would not disagree with a cognitive psychologist about aggression because they both believe that aggressive behavior is caused by the way we cognitively process certain behaviors

d) a behaviorist might state that aggression is caused by past rewards for aggressive behavior, while a cognitive psychologist might state that aggression is caused by memories or ways we think about aggressive behavior

Vincenzo conducts an experiment to see whether fear makes mice run through mazes faster. he first selected a sample of 60 mice and then divided them into a control group and an experimental group. which cannot be a confounding variable? a) how fast the mice are at the start b) when the mice run the maze c) the population from which he selected his subjects d) how frightened the mice are before the experiment e) where the mice run the maze

d) how frightened the mice are before the experiment

Jose hypothesizes that a new drug he has just invented will enhance mice's memories. he feeds the drug to the experimental group and gives the control group a placebo. he then times the mice as they learn to run through a maze. in order to know whether his hypothesis has been supported, Jose would need to use... a) scatter plots b) descriptive statistics c) histograms d) inferential statistics e) means-end analysis

d) inferential statistics

theoretically, random assignment should eliminate... a) sampling error b) the need to use statistics c) concerns over validity d) many confounding variables e) the need for a representative sample

d) many confounding variables

Charlotte, a nursery school student, hypothesizes that boys have fights with the finger paints more than girls do. she tests her hypothesis by casually watching the finger-painting table for three days of nursery school. what method is she using? a) field experiment b) informal survey c) case study d) naturalistic observation e) ethnography

d) naturalistic observation

Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory has been criticized for being... a) appropriate for female patients, but not male patients b) only applicable to research settings, not therapy settings c) based on large groups, not individual cases d) unscientific and unverifiable e) too closely tied to behavioristic thought

d) unscientific and unverifiable

Tamar scored 145 on an IQ test with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 15. what is her z score? a) -3 b) -1.5 c) +0.67 d) 1.5 e) +3

e) +3

which of the following psychologists was part of the Gestalt group of psychologists? a) Carl Rogers b) Wilhelm Wundt c) B. F. Skinner d) John Watson e) Max Wertheimer

e) Max Wertheimer

Sigmund Freud's theory of the unconscious mind... a) was revolutionary because it was the first comprehensive explanation of human thought and behavior b) resulted from discoveries about the human brain obtained by cadaver dissection c) is outdated and has no relevance for modern psychology d) focused entirely on human males' sex drive e) depends on the idea that humans can remember events but not be consciously aware of the memory

e) depends on the idea that humans can remember events but not be consciously aware of the memory

which of the following hypotheses would be most difficult to test experimental? a) people exposed to the color red will be more aggressive than those exposed to the color blue b) exercise improves mood c) exposure to violent television increases aggression d) studying leads to better grades e) divorce make children more independent

e) divorce make children more independent