ap psychology final

Early psychological perspective that emphasized units of consciousness and identification of elements of thought using introspection

• Structuralism

• Functionalism

• Monism

• Dualism

Who is the “father” of psychology?

• John Locke
• John B. Watson
• William Wundt
• Rene Descartes

Who used introspection to study structures of mind?

• William James
• B.F. Skinner
• John B Watson
• Edward Titchener

The condition that exists when the probability that the findings are not due to chance

• statistical significance
• experimenter bias
• confounding variables

Descriptive research where one person or group is studied in depth; baby albert

• naturalistic observation
• experiment
• correlational study
• case study

"Monday Morning Quarterback" rarely act surprised about the outcome of the weekend football games.  This tendency to believe they knew how the game would turn out is best explained by which psychological principle?

• Overconfidence
• Hindsight Bias
• Intuition
• Illusory Correlation

Which of the following demonstrates the need for psychological science?

• Psychology's methods are unlike those of any other science
• Psychological experiments are less valuable without psychological science
• Out intuitions about human thinking and behavior are not always accurate
• Intuitions does not provide correct answers unless it is applied through the scientific method

Which of the following is a potential problem for a case study?

• They provide too much detail and the researcher is likely to lose track of the most important facts.
• They are generally  too expensive to economical
• They may be misleading because they don't fairly represent other cases
• The dependent variable is difficult to operationally define in a case study

Mary watches several different species of birds to discover how they feed their young in their habitat, without being intrusive. This would be an example of what type of study?

• Case study
• Naturalistic observation
• Survey
• Experiment

This research method is a measure of the extent to which two variables change together, and thus of how well either variable predicts the other

• Correlational
• Experiments
• Case Study
• Survey
• Observational