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WorksheetsAP Psychology
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
By seeking to measure "atom of the mind," who established the first psychology laboratory?
a)
Sigmund Freud
b)
John B. Watson
c)
Wilhelm Wundt
d)
G. Stanley Hall
2.
Who coined the term "tabula rasa" (Blank slate) to help explain the experience has on shaping an individual?
a)
John Locke
b)
Sigmund Freud
c)
Francis Bacon
d)
John B. Watson
3.
Which of the following perspective is most likely to address how the encoding, storing, and retrieval of information might alter our thoughts?
a)
Behavioral
b)
Psychodynamic
c)
Humanistic
d)
Cognitive
4.
Who among the following would most likely study the interaction of people, machines, and physical environments?
a)
Human factors psychologist
b)
Personality psychologist
c)
Industrial- organizational psychologist
d)
Counseling psychologist
5.
Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that they
a)
Help people cope with challenges and crisis
b)
conduct research
c)
are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medicine
d)
explore how we view and affect one another
6.
Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different countries express anger?
a)
Psychodynamic
b)
Behavioral
c)
Social- cultural
d)
Biological
7.
The debate about the relative contributions of biology and experience to human development is most often referred to as what?
a)
Evolutionary analysis
b)
Behaviorism
c)
The cognitive revolution
d)
The nature-nurture issue
8.
Which of the following professionals is required to have a medical degree?
a)
Psychiatrist
b)
Psychologist
c)
Clinician
d)
Counselor
9.
According to the behaviorist perspective, psychological science should be rooted in what?
a)
Introspection
b)
Obsevation
c)
Cultural influences
d)
Growth potential
10.
Which of the following psychologist would most likely conduct psychotherapy?
a)
Biological
b)
Clinical
c)
Congitive
d)
Evolutionary
11.
Which field of psychology is most interested in studying the link between mental activity and brain activity.
a)
Humanistic psychology
b)
Gestalt psychology
c)
Cognitive neuroscience
d)
Psychodynamic perspective
12.
Which school of psychology focused on the adaptive nature of thinking and how our consciousness evolves to meet our needs?
a)
Functionalist
b)
Structuralist
c)
Behavioral
d)
Humanistic
13.
The study of the importance of satisfying love and acceptance needs best describes which school of psychology.
a)
Behavioral
b)
Functionalist
c)
Humanistic
d)
Structuralist
14.
Self-reflective introspection about the elements of experience best describes a technique used by which school of psychology?
a)
Darwinists
b)
Empiricists
c)
Structuralists
d)
Psychiatrists
15.
The science of behavior and mental processes is the definition of which field of study?
a)
Basic research
b)
Applied research
c)
Philosophy
d)
Psychology
16.
A testable prediction that drives research is known as a(n)?
a)
Theory
b)
Hypothesis
c)
Guess
d)
Operational definition
17.
Which of the following is most important when conducting survey research?
a)
Choosing a representative sample
b)
Choosing a large sample
c)
Choosing a biased sample
d)
Choosing a sample whoes answers will likely support your hypothesis
18.
Which of the following questions is best investigated by means of a survey?
a)
Is IQ related to grades?
b)
Does extra sleep improve memory?
c)
Are students more likely to be politically liberal or conservative?
d)
What is the best way to study for AP Tests?
19.
Which descriptive statistic would a researcher use to describe how close a student's SAT score is to a school's average SAT score?
a)
Correlation coefficient
b)
Mean
c)
Median
d)
Standard deviation
20.
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?
a)
case study
b)
experiment
c)
survey
d)
correlation
21.
When a distribution of scores is skewed, which of the following is the most representative measure of central tendency?
a)
Inference
b)
Standard deviation
c)
Mean
d)
Median
22.
Which statistical measure of central tendency is most affected by extreme scores?
a)
Mean
b)
Median
c)
Mode
d)
Skew
23.
In a normal distribution, what percentage of the scores in the distribution falls within on standard deviation on either side of the mean?
a)
34 %
b)
40 %
c)
50 %
d)
68 %
24.
Which of the following is used only in correlation studies?
a)
Double blind
b)
Placebo
c)
Random assignment
d)
Scatterplot
25.
Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the strongest relationship between two variables?
a)
+ .30
b)
+ .75
c)
+ 1.3
d)
- .85
26.
Which of the following is an example of negative correlation?
a)
People who spend more time exercising tend to weigh less
b)
Teenage females tend to have fewer speeding tickets than teenage males.
c)
Students with low IQ scores tend to have lower grades.
d)
Students'' shoe sizes are not related to their grades.
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