Do Now AP Psychology Research Methods

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 experimental experiment

• a survey

• a case study

• cross-sectional research

• correlational research

Which of the following research approaches would be best for testing the hypothesis that the presence of certain odors causes people to gamble more?

• Experimental

• Observational

• Correlational

• Case study

• Survey

The next question(s) are based on this scenario:

A researcher randomly assigned boys and girls to each of two groups. One group watched a violent television program while the other group watched a nonviolent program. The children were then observed during a period of free play, and the incidence of aggressive behavior was recorded for each group.

This research method is best characterized as

• correlational

• case study

• naturalist

• experimental

• longitudinal

Research finds that, in general, the higher an incoming college student scores on a given test, the higher the student’s college grade point average (GPA). Which of the following best describes this relationship?

• a bimodal distribution

• a normal distribution

• positive correlation

• a negative corrolation

• a skewed distribution

Jane Goodall lived among wild chimpanzees intermittently for decades, studying their social and family systems while keeping her interaction with the chimpanzees to a minimum. Her research method can most accurately be described as

• a case study

• a survey

• a correlation study

• naturalistic observation

• experimental