AP Psych Midterm Review Units 1-4 and 6

According to Abraham Maslow, the need for an individual to reach their full potential is

• self-actualization

• love and belonging

• esteem

• safety

Aleena, a 15 year old girl, does not do her homework. Her parents take away her phone for a day for every assignment she has not complete. After a couple of months, her parents have seen an improvement in grades. What psychologist field does this most relate to?

• Humanistic

• Behavioral

• Sociocultural

• psychoanalytic

The "father of psychology" is closely related to

• Carl Rogers

• Wilhelm Wundt

• John Watson

• Rene Descartes

A psychoanalyst would most likely work with

• A 18 year old male who is depressed due to his breakup with his girlfriend. The psychologist asks him to describe his unconscious desires to get back together with her.

• a 89 year old women who is confused where she left her keys. The psychologist tells her to describe every little thing that she did that day.

• a 21 year old female who is afraid of dogs due to an experience in the past. The psychologist tries to find when the trauma occurred and how to fix it.

• a 12 year old kid who is attached to a red ball and will not let it go. The psychologist finds out that the the girl is attached to the ball due to her absence of a mother.

Melissa has problems with self image and often finds it hard to find value in herself. What type of therapy would Melissa most likely go to

• Cognitive

• psychoanalytic

• Behavioral

• Humanistic

In a double-blind procedure what occurs?

• Both the subject and their family are unaware if they are the control group while the researcher is fully aware

• the researcher is aware of who is in the control group and who is in the experimental group

• the researcher and the subject are aware if they are the control or experimental group

• Both the subject and researcher are unaware of who is in the controlled and experimental group

Aleeza is trying to find out if using a certain type of fertilizer is better than using soil outside. Aleeza is using the same amount of sunlight and water to assure that there are no confounding variables. What is the control and experimental group?

• Experimental: soil

  Control: sunlight and water

• Experimental: sunlight and soil

  Control: water

• Experimental: sunlight and water

  Control: soil

• Experimental: water and soil

  Control: sunlight

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Rebecca is trying to see if she can run a mile in 14 minutes. What could be a confounding variable in this situation?

• what shoes she was wearing

• where she was running

• what she ate

• all of the above

What is done in order to ensure there is a representative of the population and eliminates chances of bias

• Case Study

• Random Sampling

• Sample Group

• Unbiased Representative

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-3

Mirela gives out candy pills to all of her friends at school but says that they are drugs. She tells all of her friends that they will help them focus better. All of her friends come back the next day and say that they can focus a lot better now. What effect are her friends experiencing?

• pseudo

• ability to focus more

• placebo

• better grades