AP Psychology Unit 1-4 Review

All of the following are American Psychological Association ethical guidelines for researchers EXCEPT:

• Research may not involve deception.

• Participation must be voluntary.

• Participants must be informed of potential risks.

• Participants must be offered alternative activities if research participation is a course requirement.

• Participants’ right to privacy must be protected.

An illusory correlation is best defined as a

• perceived relationship where one does not exist

• causal relationship

• correlation of 0

• correlation of −1.0

• correlation of +1.0

Having the patient be self-reflective (looking inward), and training them to report elements of their experience.  

• structuralism
• introspection
• functionalism
• psychometrics

Who was the American philosopher who authored a textbook in 1890 for the emerging discipline of psychology?  

• Wilhelm Wundt
•  John B. Watson
• Sigmund Freud
• William James

Which would a cognitive psychologist study?

• Conformity behavior of students

• Genetic determinants of behavior

• Problem-solving strategies in chess

• Maturational processes in adolescent development

Russian physiologist known primarily for his work in classical conditioning with dogs and salivation.

• Edward Thorndike

• John Watson

• Ivan Pavlov

• Martin Seligman

Conducted classical conditioning experiment on Little Albert for him to fear a white rat after pairing with a loud noise.

• Albert Bandura

• John Watson

• Ivan Pavlov

• Edward Thorndike

John Watson and his colleague, Rosalie Rayner, offered a live white rat to Little Albert and then made a loud noise behind his head by striking a steel bar with a hammer. The white rat served as the _____________ in their study.

• discriminative stimulus
• conditioned stimulus
• unconditioned stimulus
• extinguished stimulus

When Pavlov placed food in the mouth's of dogs, they began to salivate. The salivation was a(n) ________.

• unconditioned stimulus
• unconditioned response
• conditioned response
• conditioned stimulus

The learned ability to distinguish between a CS and other stimuli that does not signal a CR is called

• Classical Conditioning

• Stimulus Discrimination

• Stimulus Generalization

• Extinction