AP Psychology Unit 0, Part 1

A psychological or physical treatment given to the control group that resembles the treatment given to the experimental group, but that contains no active ingredient, is known as the ______________.

• independent variable

• placebo

• dependent variable

• confounding variable

When a researcher's expectations or preferences about the outcome of a study influence the results, ____________ bias has occurred.

• social desirability

• self-serving

• experimenter

• hindsight

A(n) _______________research design happens when only participants don't know whether they are in experimental or control group, but the researchers do know who is assigned to which group.

• double blind

• naturalistic observation

• single blind

• correlational

A ____________________ is a descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in-depth in the hope of revealing universal principles.

• Case Study

• Survey

• Observational

• Correlational

• Experiments

This research method is a technique for ascertaining the self -reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, often by questioning a representative sample of the group.

• Survey

• Observational

• Correlational

• Experiments

• Case Study

The _____________ method of research is where the researcher carefully and systematically observes and records behavior without interfering.

• Observational

• Correlational

• Experiments

• Case Study

• Survey

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

• correlational

• inferential

• experimental

• descriptive

• Observational

The advantage of a(n) ________________ is that it yields a great deal of detailed descriptive information.

• Case Study

• Survey

• Observation

• Correlation

• Experiment

A disadvantage of _______ is that the data is limited to only answering the question(s) asked. These limitations lead to biases, ambiguous conclusions, and low participation rates among research populations.

• Surveys

• Observations

• Correlations

• Experiments

• Case Studies

A disadvantage of ______________ is the behaviors could be only one-time occurrences.

• Observations

• Correlations

• Experiments

• Case Studies

• Surveys