AP PSYCH FINAL SHOWDOWN

If a child is behaving poorly, it is likely because this behavior has been rewarded somehow.

• Sociocultural

• Behavioral

• Biological

• Psychodynamic

Which perspective would say that anxiety is the result of repressed traumatic childhood experiences?

• Psychodynamic

• Cognitive

• Behavioral

• Biological

Which perspective suggests that an imbalance of hormones can contribute to aggressive behavior?

• Biological

• Psychodynamic

• Humanistic

• Cognitive

On a scatter plot, a pattern extends from the lower-left corner to the upper-right corner. This pattern reflects that this scatterplot shows:

• No correlation
• A positive correlation
• A negative correlation
• A positive skew

In research terms, what qualifies a study as “valid?”

• If the study is conducted under strict conditions
• If the study measures what it claims to be measuring
• If the study proves the hypothesis
• If the study succeeds

Debbie is interested in determining if music helps people study. To do this, she uses the help of 20 students in her psychology class. Half the people study with music in the background for an hour and the other half study with no music for an hour.  The students then take a test on that material. In this example, what is the independent variable?

• music
• scores on the exam
• group that studies with no music
• group that studies with music

We’ve compared two sets of data in a correlational study and have found a correlation coefficient of +.83. We can legitimately conclude that there’s what kind of relationship between our measures?

• strong negative correlation
• weak negative correlation
• strong positive correlation
• weak negative correlation

Travis and Reid were both seen stumbling down the street. Travis was drunk, which explained his lack of balance. Reid, on the other hand, was sober. He was unable to maintain his balance due to damage to a particular part of his brain. Where did this damage most likely occur?

• pons
• medulla
• reticular formation
• cerebellum

Although Robert was sitting right next to his wife, he smelled a skunk minutes before she did. Apparently, Robert has a lower ________ for skunk odor than his wife.

• subliminal threshold
• absolute threshold
• kinesthetic sense
• vestibular sense

A statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance

• operational definition
• statistical difference
• statistical significance
• reliable difference