AP Psych

Mrs. Thompson believes that her son has learned to play the piano because she consistently rewards his efforts to learn with praise and affection. Her belief best illustrates a ________ perspective.

Behavioral

Heredity is to environment as the evolutionary perspective is to the ______ perspective

behavioral

The neuroscience perspective in psychology would be most likely to emphasize that behavior is influenced by

brain chemistry

The mean of a skewed distribution of scores is always

larger or smaller than the median

The suggestion that psychology is less of a set of facts than a method of evaluating ideas best highlights the _______ nature of psychology

scientific

The median of a distribution of scores is the

score exceeded by 50% of all the scores

A questioning attitude regarding psychologists assumptions and hidden values best illustrates

skeptical inquiry

Jake acts very differently with his family than he does when he is with his friends. Jake's behavior is most directly relevant to the issue of

stability vs change

Researchers and subjects in a drug-evaluation study are both ignorant about which subjects have actually received an experimental drug and which were given a placebo. This investigation involves the use of:

the double-blind procedure

The tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our own attitudes is known as

the false consensus effect

Testable Prediction that gives direction to research

hypothesis

Dr. Lewis is involved in an applied research study of customer satisfaction with a newly developed line of facial cosmetics and other beauty aids. Dr. Lewis is more likely an ______ psychologist

industrial/organizational

Who suggested that the mind at birth is but a "tabula rasa" upend which experience writes?

John Locke

Innate ability is learned skill as ______ is to ______

nature;nurture

A specification of how a researcher measures a research variable is known as an

operational definition

Mr. and Mrs. Klostreich have six children ages 5,6,6,7,8,16. The mean age of the Klostreich Children is

8

Contemporary psychology is best defined as the science of

behavior and mental processes

Researchers use experiments rather than other research methods in order to distinguish between

causes and effects

A statistical measure that indicates the extent to which changes in one factor are accompanied by changes in another is called an

correlation coefficient

Nature is to nurture as ______ is to ______

evolutionary perspective; behavioral perspective

The hindsight bias refers to people's tendency to

exaggerate their ability to have foreseen the outcome of past events

In the control condition of an experiment the

experimental treatment is absent

In which type of research would an investigator manipulate one factor in order to observe its effect on some behavior or mental process?

experimentation

The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as

natural selection

Molly wonders whether personality differences between her african american and white friends result from biological or cultural differences. In this instance, Molly is primarily concerned with the issue of

nature vs nurture

Correlation research is most useful for purposes of

prediction

Clinical psychologist are most likely to be involved in

providing therapy to troubled people

The distinctive feature of the psychodynamic perspective is its emphasis on

unconscious conflicts