AP Psych Q1 Review

Who created the first psychology lab?

• B. F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Abraham Maslow

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History & Approaches

Which approach to psychology is concerned with unconscious desires and motives?

• Cognitive

• Social-cultural

• Biological

• Psychodynamic

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History & Approaches

Who is most closely associated with the psychodynamic/psychoanalytic approach to psychology?

• Abraham Maslow

• Carl Rogers

• William James

• Sigmund Freud

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History & Approaches

Which is concerned with using research to solve a specific problem?

• Applied research

• Basic research

• Positive psychology

• Gestalt psychology

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History & Approaches

The focus of structuralists most closely matches the current perspective of

• Psychoanalysts

• Behaviorists

• Cognitivists

• Humanists

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History & Approaches

Which scatterplot best depicts the most negative correlation between two variables?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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Statistics & Research Methods

In an experiment, the ___ variable is the one that is manipulated by the researcher.

• Independent

• Dependent

• Confounding

• Standard

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Statistics & Research Methods

A researcher who had a role in designing a new medication wants to promote it. She unconsciously suggests to those who took her medication that they are feeling better than those who took an alternative medication. This demonstrates which of the following phenomena?

• Confirmation bias

• Hindsight bias

• Experimenter bias

• Placebo effect

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Statistics & Research Methods

Which design is best for limiting experimenter bias?

• Single-blind study

• Double-blind study

• Case study

• Naturalistic observation

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Statistics & Research Methods

Javier wants to study the effects on achievement of taking a course on chemistry in the afternoon, rather than in the morning. A teacher has chemistry classes with the same number of students at 8:10a and 1:05p, and volunteers to participate with her classes. A major problem in this study would be

• Poor replication

• Lack of a hypothesis

• Difficulty in obtaining informed consent

• Confounding variables

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Statistics & Research Methods