AP Psych

Mary has an IQ score within one standard deviation above the mean score. This indicates her score is best described as having which of the following qualities?

• in the top 10% of people who took the test

• below the average score of people who took the test

• within the middle 68% of people who took the test

• within the highest 25% of people who took the test

Mr. Gregg wants to help his second-grade students improve their reading skills. He tests the students with 20 reading comprehension questions at the beginning of the year. Every week throughout the year he gives the students 30 minutes of reading comprehension tips. He tests the students at the end of the year with 20 reading comprehension questions that are similar in difficulty to those on the original test. He finds that the students' reading comprehension has increased and concludes that his tips worked. Which of the following describes the most significant problem with Mr. Gregg's study?

• Mr. gregg should have tested his students every month so he could more accurately track their progress.

• Mr. Gregg failed to account for changes in the students' maturity.

• Mr. gregg should have had someone else test the children in case he was showing experimenter bias

• Mr. gregg should have tested his students every month so he could better track their progress.

Mr. Theodore, a high school math teacher, believes that the use of cell phones in class causes distractions while learning. He conducted a study on his students. Over the course of eight weeks, he noted how many students put their devices in a locked bin each class period. At the end of each week, he gave the students a quiz on the class content to see if removal of the device increased focused learning. The results are presented in the table.

How did Mr. Theodore operationally define focused learning for his study?

• Minutes spent without phones

• Likert Scale

• Mean quiz scores

• The Flynn Effect

A sample of pregnant women is given a high dose of caffeine daily to determine if their babies are born with an addiction to caffeine. Which of the following is an ethical issue in this study?

• There is no consent from the pregnant women.

• There is possible long-term harm to the babies.

• The study lacks a control group for comparison.

• There is a risk of misdiagnosing the babies' health issues.

Using the diagram, during which of the following do individuals typically dream?

• Participants scored better when testing in a familiar location.

• The progression of cognitive and physical abilities throughout the lifespan

• Mr. Flores should have kept the students' results anonymous.

• refers to REM sleep, which is when people have dreams.

A school collected data on student absences during stressful final exam periods when their sympathetic nervous systems would be activated. They graphed the data at the end of the academic term. Based on the graph, what is the most likely standard deviation for the number of days students missed classes?

• 2.0

• 5.0

• 4.0

• 3.0

Which of the following studies is from an evolutionary perspective?

• A study to determine if children prefer playing with toys or gadgets more.

• A study to see if women were more attracted to men who liked children than men who did not like children

• A study to compare the diets of men and women across different age groups.

• A study to see if men are more attracted to women who are successful in their careers.

Neurologists trying to find a treatment for Alzheimer's disease selected 100 individuals with moderate to severe symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. Fifty participants were randomly placed into either an experimental condition that received a new medication that acted as an agonist for acetylcholine or the control condition which continued to receive same care as before. The study lasted for ten weeks at which time members of both groups took a cognitive assessment to determine their level of functioning. Which of the following best explains the operational definition of the dependent variable in this study?

• How the participants were placed into their respective groups.

• The group that received the new medication.

• The participants in the study were not randomly selected.

• The score on the cognitive assessment.

When a person behaves in ways that conform to commonly accepted social roles for males or females, which of the following is the person displaying?

• Gender identity

• Gender typing

• Gender schema

• Emotional responses

Mr. Flores is trying to convince his students that there are more effective ways to study. He has his students use two different strategies to remember a list of 20 random words over two consecutive weeks. During week one, the students repeat the words 5 times, and during week two, they create an analogy for each word based on its definition. The results of the study were posted on his classroom door as proof of how students should study.

Mr. Flores is attempting to get his student to encode the information into which of the following systems of memory?

• Sensory memory

• Short term memory

• Implicit memory

• Long term memory