AP Psych Unit 1&2: Approaches and Research Methods

What is one disadvantage of a survey?

• People don't tell the truth.

• Yields a lot of information

• Provides a good way to generate hypotheses

• Can provide information about many people since it’s cheap and easy to do

A testable prediction is called (a/an):

• operational definition
• theory
• replication
• hypothesis

In a double-blind procedure, who is unaware of the experimental group assignment?

• The experimenter
• The participants
• Neither the experimenter nor the participants are aware
• Both the experimenter and participants are aware

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?

• Case study
• Naturalistic observation
• Survey
• Experiment

In an experiment the ____ group is NOT exposed to the independent variable.

• experimental
• control
• double blind
• single blind

An experiment is performed to see if background music improves learning.  Two groups study the same material, one while listening to music and another without music. The independent variable is

• learning
• size of group
• material studied
• presence of music

In an experiment to test the effects of hunger on aggressive behavior, aggressive behavior would be the

• placebo
• control
• dependent variable
• independent variable

In a study of effects of alcohol on driving ability, the control group should be given

• a high dosage of alcohol
• one-half the dosage given the experimental group
• a driving test before and after drinking alcohol
• no alcohol at all

A person displays a set of rare behaviors that psychologists had not known about previously, because nobody had ever shown them before. The best strategy to investigate the nature of those behaviors is

• an experiment
• a survey
• a case study
• cross sectional study

Which is considered a disadvantage of naturalistic observation?

• it provides an overabundance of information
• it deals with behavior not tampered with by outside influences
• it limits biased observations through careful record keeping
• it doesn’t identify the cause of observed behavior