2024 AP Psych Unit 0.3

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Descriptive research where one person or group is studied in depth; baby albert

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case study

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"Monday Morning Quarterback" rarely act surprised about the outcome of the weekend football games. This tendency to believe they knew how the game would turn out is best explained by which psychological principle?

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Hindsight Bias

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Which of the following demonstrates the need for psychological science? Options: Psychology's methods are unlike those of any other science, Psychological experiments are less valuable without psychological science, Out intuitions about human thinking and behavior are not always accurate, Intuitions does not provide correct answers unless it is applied through the scientific method

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Out intuitions about human thinking and behavior are not always accurate

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Which of the following is a potential problem for a case study? Options: They provide too much detail and the researcher is likely to lose track of the most important facts., They are generally  too expensive to economical, They may be misleading because they don't fairly represent other cases, The dependent variable is difficult to operationally define in a case study

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They may be misleading because they don't fairly represent other cases

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A testable prediction is called (a/an): operational definition, theory, replication, hypothesis

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hypothesis

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Mary watches several different species of birds to discover how they feed their young in their habitat, without being intrusive. This would be an example of what type of study?

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Naturalistic observation

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When people have the tendency to think they know more than they do

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Overconfidence

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This is a method of research where the researcher carefully and systematically observes and records behavior without interfering.

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Observational

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What is the advantage of the descriptive method of research that creates an immense amount of data to be gathered quickly and inexpensively? Options: Survey, Observational, Correlational, Experiments, Case Study

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Survey

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It is important for researchers to use precise operational definitions when they want to be able to replicate the experiment.

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They want to be able to replicate the experiment.