AP PSYCH Cumulative Review #3

He set up the 1st lab to study human behavior scientifically in 1879 in Liepzig, Germany.

• Wilhelm Wundt
• William James
• Sigmund Freud
• John B Watson

Approach to psychology that focuses on how people can reach their full personal potential...goal is self-actualization

• humanism
• behaviorism
• psychodynamic
• functionalism

Father of Behaviorism

• John B. Watson
• William James
• Wilhelm Wundt
• BF Skinner

Division of the sample into groups so that every individual has an equal chance of being put in any group or condition.

• single blind
• double blind
• random assignment
• random sampling

Research design in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the experimental group and who is in control group.

• single blind study
• case study
• double blind study
• Hawthorne study

Research design where one  specific group of people or person is studied in detail through interviews, file reviews, etc.  Not generalizable. 

• case study
• naturalistic evaluation
• experiment
• correlation

In a study of the effect of a driver training program on driving skill, a possible operationalisation of the dependent variable would be...

• driving quality
• number of accidents
• hours spent training
• amount of traffic

Professor Ober carefully monitors and records the behaviors of children on school playgrounds to track the development of their physical skills. Professor Ober is engaged in:

• experimentation. 
• replication. 
• survey research.
• naturalistic observation. 

To learn about the TV viewing habits of all the children attending Oakbridge School, Professor Devries randomly selected and interviewed 50 of the school's students. In this instance, all the children attending the school are considered to be a(n):

• case study. 
• control group. 
• independent variable. 
• population.

Suppose a researcher wants to study the effect of drug A on subjects’ alertness. He divides 100 subjects into two groups of 50, an experimental group and a control group. He dissolves drug A in saline solution and injects it into all the subjects in the experimental group. He then gives all the control group subjects an injection of only saline solution.
What is the independent variable? 

• drug A
• saline solution 
• the subjects
• the needles