Review - AP Psych - Unit 1

The study of the importance of unconditional love and acceptance needs in order for someone to reach his or her potential best describes which school of psychology?

• Humanistic

• Behavioral

• Psychodynamic

• Cognitive

Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different countries express anger?

• Psychodynamic

• Social-cultural

• Behavioral

• Biological

Which of the following is NOT true of an experiment?

• Causality cannot be determined

• There is an independent variable

• There is both an experimental and control group

• Causality can be determined

Observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation is called...

• Case Study

• Survey

• Naturalistic Observation

• Experimental Design

The advantage of this descriptive method of research is that it creates an immense amount of data that can be gathered quickly and inexpensively.

• Survey
• Observational
• Correlational
• Experiments

This research method is a measure of the extent to which one variable can predict another.

• Correlational

• Experiments

• Survey

• Observational

This refers to the method of gaining enough participants that represent various backgrounds of people, allowing researchers to generalize results to the larger population:

• Single-blind study

• Informed consent

• Random sampling

• Convenience sampling

Operational Definition

• Clear and detailed statements about how you will measure the data collected about the variables.

• The entire group of people or animals in which the researcher is interested.

• A sample that has characteristics that are similar to those in the population.

• A measure of the relationship between two variables.

In an experiment, the ___________ variable is tested by the researcher to observe its effect(s) on the ___________ variable.

• independent; dependent

• first; second

• dependent; independent

• research; results

The group to which an independent variable is applied

• Control Group

• Representative Group

• Experimental Group

• Skewed Distribution Group