MP1 AP Psych Test Review

Largest areas of the brain, functions include language, complex thoughts, consciousness, sensory and motor processing

• cerebral cortex

• cerebellum

• corpus callosum

• cerebrum

"Little brain" responsible for controlling balance, coordinating fine motor movements, creation of procedural memories

• cerebrum

• cerebellum

• corpus callosum

• cerebral cortex

Damage to which of the following brain structures would affect the processing of new explicit memories

• hypothalamus

• hippocampus

• thalamus

• limbic system

A measure of the extent to which two factors vary together, and thus of how well either factor predicts the other is called a

• measure of central tendency

• coefficient

• inferential statistic

• correlation

Define a double blind procedure:

• A statistical procedure that identifies common factors among groups of items

• An experimental procedure in which both the research participants and the research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo.

• Any effect on behavior caused by the placebo, which the recipient assumes is an active agent, given to the control group in an experiment.

• A statement of the procedures used to define research variables.

The arithmetic average of a distribution, obtaining by adding the scores and then dividing by the number of score is the

• median

• mean

• mode

• dependent variable

In an experiement, this is main factor that is being studied, the "if" part of the study.

• distribution

• confounding variable

• independent variable

• correlation

A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score dependent on the range and square root of total scores.

• inferential statistic

• standard deviation

• descriptive research

• average

Three descriptive methods of psychological research.

• experiements, correlations, case studies

• dependent variable, case studies, inferential statistics

• naturalistic observation, experiements, case study

• case studies, naturalistic observation, surveys

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it.

• sampling bias

• hindsight bias

• the random effect bias

• single blind procedure