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Experiments in AP Psychology

Authored by Patricia White

Social Studies

10th - 12th Grade

Experiments in AP Psychology
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Researchers cannot generalize findings unless their samples are random. In order for a sample to be truly random, every member of the entire group has to have an equal chance of being chosen to participate. Which of the following is an example of a random sampling procedure used to pick 100 participants for a research project?

Design a Web site that has an online version of a questionnaire and include the first 100 people who complete the survey.

Put an ad in the newspaper and pick the first 100 people who respond.

Choose participants from the entire population of interest by putting all the names in a bowl, picking names one at a time until you reach 100, and involving as many of those 100 as possible.

Send questionnaires to the entire population of interest and include the first 100 people who return the questionnaire.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A hypothesis is a prediction that is:

Self-evident.

Testable

Founded in Semantics.

Able to be replicated.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

If a researcher is studying different approaches to dieting to determine which is the most effective for weight loss, the experimenter's manipulation of dieting is the:

Control condition

Independent variable

Dependent variable

Placebo

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

If you choose a sample of the population that gives each person an equal chance of participating, this would be:

A biased sample

A random sample

An optimal sample

An atypical sample

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In an experiment, researchers manipulate one or more _______________ and then determine whether this manipulation had an effect on the _______________.

independent variables; dependent variable

dependent variables; independent variable

correlations; association

personality characteristics; outcome

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

In order to control for experimenter bias as well as extraneous variables such as severity of condition, attitudes, age, etc., researchers assign subjects to groups by:

Random assignment

Replication

Naturalistic observation

Operational definitions

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Which method should a psychology researcher use if she is interested in testing whether a specific reward in a classroom situation causes students to behave better?

case study 
experiment 
survey 
correlation 

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