AP Psych End of Year Review

Which of the following thinkers believed people were born as "blank slates"?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Locke

• Descartes

• Freud

Which branch of psychology focuses on the unconscious?

• Psychoanalytic

• Humanistic

• Behaviorist

• Sociocultural

• Functionalist

Which type of psychologist would most likely explore how we process and remember info?

• Developmental

• Biological

• Social

• Cognitive

• Personality

Which of the following is required to have a medical degree?

• Psychiatrist

• Psychologist

• Counselor

• Psychotherapist

• Clinician

Which is only used in correlation studies?

• Double blind

• Placebo

• Random assignment

• Scatterplot

• Random sample

Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the strongest relationship between two variables?

• +.30

• +.75

• +1.3

• -.85

• -1.2

Which of these is a measure of variation?

• Range

• Mean

• Mode

• Frequency

• Median

In a normal distribution, what percentage of the scores falls within one standard deviation on either side of the mean?

• 34%

• 40%

• 50%

• 68%

• 95%

Which ethical priniciple requires that at the end of the study participants be told about the true purpose of the research?

• Institutional Review Board approval

• Informed consent

• Confidentiality

• Debriefing

• Protection from physical harm

Which method should a psychology researcher use if she is interested in testing whether a specific reward in a classroom situation causes students to behave better?

• Case study

• Experiment

• Survey

• Naturalistic observation

• Correlation