Unit one AP Psychology

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

Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance, minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups.

• random sampling

• double blind procedure

• random assignment

• random mugging

In an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment being studied.

• experiemental group

• random sampling

• control group

• confounding variable

An ethical principle requiring that research participants be told enough about an experiement to enable them to choose whether they wish to participate.

• cross sectional study

• protection of the participant

• informed consent

• beside manner

The psychoanalytic approach in psychology believes

• all of our behavior is learned.

• people are capable of self-actualization

• much of our behavior stems from unconscious wants and desires.

• memory formation depends on sensory input.

Division of the sample into groups so that every individual has an equal chance of being put in any group or condition.

• single blind
• double blind
• random assignment
• random sampling

_____________research can only be measured between the values of -1 and 1, and it is graphed on a scatterplot.

• Correlational

• Experimental

• Case Study

• Survey

• Observational

Which correlation coefficient represents the strongest relationship between variables?

• -0.78
• 0.67
• 0.85
• -0.87

Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that they

• help people cope with challenges and crisis

• conduct research

• are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medicine

• explore how we view and affect one another

In a normal distribution, what percentage of the scores in the distribution falls within on standard deviation on either side of the mean?

• 34 %
• 40 %
• 50 %
• 68 %