AP Test 1 review

Which approach is most directly concerned with assessing the relative contributions of heredity and experience to personality development?

• biological

• cognitive

• biopsychosocial

• psychodynamic

If a result is statistically significant it means that we are pretty confident are results were not due to:

• illusory correlation

• error

• chance

Which of the following correlations between self-esteem and body weight would enable you to most accurately predict body weight from knowledge of level of self-esteem?

• +0.01

• -0.06

• +0.60

• -0.10

Specialist most likely to have a medical degrees is a(n)

• clinical psychologist

• industrial-organizational psychologist

• psychiatrist

• biological psychologist

Which psychological perspective highlights the manner in which people encode, process, store, and retrieve information?

• cognitive

• psychodynamic

• biological

• behavioral

When neither researcher or participants in a study know which group is in the experimental or control group the __________________________________ procedure is being used.

• hindsight bias

• random sampling

• replication

• double-blind

Which perspective is most directly concerned with how the physical properities of the brain influence behaviors and mental states?

• behavioral

• cognitive

• social-cultural

• biological

If psychologists discovered that weathly people are less satisfied with their marriages than poor people are, this would indicate that wealth and marital satisfaction are

• positively correlated

• negatively correlated

• causally related

• dependent variables

The most commonly reported measure of central tendency is the

• mode

• median

• standard deviation

• mean

When neither researcher or subject knows who is getting the IV and who is not we are conducting a:

• double blind study

• single blind study

• survey

• case study