AP Psychology Unit 0

The science of behavior and mental processes.

• Psychology
• Psychometrics

• Psychiatry

• Structuralism

How can you "operationalize" verbal aggression?

• Yelling at someone

• Kicking someone

• The number of insulting comments per hour.

• Giving someone the silent treatment.

The ethical guideline for research in which participants must agree to be a part of the study is known as

• Informed consent

• Confidentiality

• Free from harm

• Debriefing

The names of the participants in a research experiment must be kept secret is an ethical guideline known as

• Debriefing

• Free from harm

• Informed Consent

• Confidentiality

A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research experiment is known as

• replication

• operational definition

• hypothesis

• standardization

The participants in research who receive the experimental treatment to measure its effects.

• Experimental group

• Random Sample

• Control group

• Population

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

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

• experiemental group

• random sampling

• control group

• confounding variable

This is a method of research where an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (the dependent variable).

• Experiments
• Case Study
• Survey
• Observational
• Correlational

Researchers want to know how happiness is impacted by the color of your socks. Color of socks would be the...

• Independent Variable

• Confounding Variable

• Dependent Variable

• Control Variable