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WorksheetsAP Psychology Unit I - Perspectives and Research
Total questions: 70
Worksheet time: 29mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Who would be the most likely to emphasize the role of the unconscious in affecting behavior?
a)
Ivan Pavlov
b)
Carl Rogers
c)
Sigmund Freud
d)
William James
2.
John Locke came up with “Tabula Rasa” that helped form empiricism, what does “Tabula Rasa” mean?
a)
Blank slate
b)
Structuralism
c)
Thoughtful mind
d)
Mental process
3.
Who established the first psychology lab at the University of Leipzig, Germany?
a)
G. Stanley Hall
b)
William Wundt
c)
Francis Bacon
d)
Sigmund Freund
4.
Who usually has a PhD, PsyD, EdD and cannot prescribe medication?
a)
Psychiatrist
b)
Therapist
c)
Physical therapist
d)
Psychologist
5.
What is cognitive psychology?
a)
Perceive, process and remember information through scientific processes
b)
Focus on biological structures and process
c)
Focus on the conscious experiences and choices in our lives
d)
How the natural selection of traits prompted survival of genes
6.
Who influenced functionalism through their work on natural selection?
a)
Margaret Washburn
b)
Mary Calkins
c)
Edward Titchener
d)
Charles Darwin
7.
What two men asked the question “how can the environment nurture human growth”?
a)
Sigmund Freud and John Locke
b)
Francis Bacon and Aristotle
c)
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
d)
John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner
8.
What did the huministic psychologists disagree with?
a)
Freudian & Behavioral
b)
Behavioral & cognative
c)
cognative & social cultural
d)
freudian & evolutionary
9.
What is the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method?
a)
experimental psychology
b)
behaviorism
c)
humanistic psychology
d)
structuralism
10.
Who is the “father” of psychology?
a)
John Locke
b)
John B. Watson
c)
William Wundt
d)
Rene Descartes
11.
The science of behavior and mental processes is ________
a)
Cognitive neuroscience
b)
behaviorism
c)
psychology
d)
structuralism
12.
A psychologist wants to see if the kids around town have been influencing Billy. Which approach should be used?
a)
Behaviorism
b)
Biology
c)
Socio-Cultural
d)
Humanism
13.
In most states what is the big difference between psychiatrist and psychologist?
a)
Psychologists are liscensed to give medicine
b)
Psychiatrist has no medical training
c)
Psychiatrist can prescibe medication
d)
Pshychologist only work with humans
14.
Who in Psychology made a lead way in helping psychological disorder treatment?
a)
Dorthea Dix
b)
Jean Piaget
c)
Abraham Maslow
d)
Carl Rogers
15.
What is the study of knowledge of or study of behavior and mental processes?
a)
Human Psychology
b)
Psychology
c)
Behaviorist
d)
Mental Processes
16.
What us the definition of evolutionary psychology?
a)
Focus on learning through rewards, punishments, and observatins
b)
How the natural selection of traits has promoted the survival genes
c)
Examines our thought processes, how we solve problems, make decisions and develop language
d)
Interactions we have with enviornment and other people in the environment
17.
Which of the following groups changed the definition of Psychology to "the scientific study of observable behavior"?
a)
Humanists
b)
Psychodynamic psychologists
c)
Cognitive psychologists
d)
Behaviorists
18.
What scientist is considered one of the founders of modern science?
a)
Francis Bacon
b)
Rene Descartes
c)
John Locke
d)
Wilhelm Wundt
19.
Who was denied the claim to being psychology's first female psychology Ph.D.?
a)
Rene Descartes
b)
Mary Whiton Calkins
c)
Rosalie Rayner
d)
Margaret Floy Washburn
20.
Of the following, who is associated with the Gestalt school of psychology?
a)
John Watson
b)
William James
c)
Ivan Pavlov
d)
Max Wertheimer
21.
Which of the following deals with childhood memories and events?
a)
Cognitive
b)
Behaviorism
c)
Humanism
d)
Psychodynamic
22.
Of the following, who is a humanistic psychologist?
a)
Abraham Maslow
b)
John Watson
c)
William James
d)
Sigmund Freud
23.
If Aristotle and Locke, who both believed that what we know is acquired from experience, were alive today, they would best agree with the:
a)
Behavior Approach
b)
Psychoanalytic Approach
c)
Humanistic Approach
d)
Biological Approach
24.
Who was the first woman to recieve a psychology Ph.D.?
a)
Mary Calkins
b)
Francisca Bacon
c)
Margaret Floy Washburn
d)
Rosalie Rayner
25.
What is the sceintific study that aims to solve practical problems?
a)
Human Factors Psychology
b)
Applied research
c)
Developmental Psychology
d)
Testing Effect
26.
What is the definition of psychology?
a)
Study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one another
b)
Study of behavior and logic
c)
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
d)
Study of how how our influences affect us
27.
which is not a mental process
a)
eating
b)
sensations
c)
thoughts
d)
feelings
28.
What approach focuses on childhood memories and events of the unconscious mind?
a)
Psychoanalitic
b)
cognitive
c)
behaviorism
d)
humanism
29.
What does cognitive thinking focus on?
a)
thoughts and decisions
b)
biological structures
c)
rewards and punishments
d)
natural selection
30.
Hormones, heredity, tumors, and disease all fall into the category of what approach?
a)
Biological
b)
cognitive
c)
humanism
d)
evolutionary
31.
Which Psychologist questioned how does our early childhood experiences affect our behavior?
a)
William James
b)
Sigmund Freud
c)
John B. Watson
d)
Abraham Maslow
32.
What approach focuses on how childhood memories and events and the unconscious mind that affects behavior?
a)
Psychoanalitic
b)
Cognitive
c)
Humanism
d)
socio-cultural
33.
What does humanism focus on?
a)
Behavior in terms of conditioning
b)
Mental activities associated with thinking
c)
Behavior related to the traits that have been passed down
d)
Human behavior through the eyes of the observer and person, growth and potential
34.
A way to study a group of people or one person is called what?
a)
Random shaping
b)
Experimental research
c)
Naturalistic observation
d)
Case study
35.
A statement of procedure used to define research variables is what?
a)
Operational definition
b)
Case study
c)
Naturalistic observation
d)
Survey
36.
Which correlation coefficient demonstrates the highest correlation?
a)
0.92
b)
-0.38
c)
-0.11
d)
0.67
37.
The study over a long period of time using the same group of people is called what?
a)
Longitudinal study
b)
Case study
c)
Survey
d)
Cross sectional study
38.
A corelation coefficient __.
a)
tells what is being compared
b)
shows the factor being manipulated
c)
is the expirament
d)
describes the strength and direction of the relationship of two variables
39.
It is commonly believed that going outside when the weather is cold and rainy, you will get a cold. This is not true. This is an example of a(n) __.
a)
Illusory correlation
b)
placebo effect
c)
random assignment
d)
experiment
40.
Which of the following is a disadvantage of a case study?
a)
takes too long
b)
not specific enough
c)
may not be a reliable representation of everyone - only that individual
d)
They may not be honest
41.
Which of the following shows a negative correlation?
a)
As the temperature goes up, the amount of ice cream sales increases
b)
The more absences Henry has, the lower his grades are
c)
The taller you are, the more candy you eat
d)
When you eat more food, your weight increases
42.
After receiving a bad score on a test, you say that you knew you had the wrong answer on many of the questions. This is an example of __.
a)
Hindsight Bias
b)
overconfidence
c)
Skepticism
d)
Critical thinking
43.
What is a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study?
a)
Hypothesis
b)
Theory
c)
Operational definition
d)
Case study
44.
What term is described when an explanation is using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events?
a)
Hypothesis
b)
Theory
c)
Scientific Method
d)
Operational Definitions
45.
In order to understand whether two variables are related to each other a researcher would use what type of research method?
a)
Case study
b)
Survey
c)
Observation
d)
Correlation
46.
What is the tendency to believe after the outcome that one would have foreseen it?
a)
Intuition
b)
Humility
c)
Hindsight bias
d)
Overconfidence
47.
What are the 3 most important traits for a psychologist?
a)
Curiosity, skepticism, and humility
b)
Intelligence, humility, humor
c)
Curiosity, ignorance, organized
d)
Smart, nice, skeptical
48.
Why do humans tend to think we know more than we actually know?
a)
Overconfidence
b)
Humility
c)
Theory
d)
Curious Skepticism
49.
What is the gut feeling you have when you know that something is right or wrong, often times this is right?
a)
Hindsight Bias
b)
Intituation
c)
Hypothesis
d)
Overconfidence
50.
When a participant doesn't know the group they're in is called?
a)
validity
b)
placebo effect
c)
blind procedure
d)
double blind procedure
51.
A procedure in which researchers nor participants know which group is the experimental group and which is the control group
a)
Double blind procedure
b)
Blind procedure
c)
Placebo Effect
d)
Validity
52.
Predicts the result of a theory
a)
Hypothesis
b)
Observation
c)
Scientific method
d)
Operational definition
53.
Recording behavior in natural environment
a)
Survey
b)
Wording effect
c)
Naturalistic observation
d)
Case study
54.
When people have the tendency to think they know more than they do
a)
Intuition
b)
Hindsight bias
c)
Overconfidence
d)
Perceiving order in random events
55.
The tendency to believe, after learning the outcome, that you knew it all along is the definition of...
a)
Overconfidence
b)
Hindsight Bias
c)
Perceiving order in random events
d)
Critical thinking
56.
What is a theory?
a)
An explaination using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events
b)
A testable prediction
c)
A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study
d)
Allows other scientists/researchers to replicate the research
57.
What is a double blind procedure?
a)
Participants don't know which group they're in
b)
Researchers don't know which group the participants are in
c)
Neither participants nor researcher knows who is in which group
d)
Both researcher and participants know who is in each group
58.
If a researcher wants to be able to predict if two variables are related to each other they would use
a)
experimental research
b)
correlational research
c)
case study
d)
illusory research
59.
What are the three parts to the scientific attitude?
a)
Curious, Smart, Humble
b)
Curious, Skeptical, Humble
c)
Honest, Curious, Smart
d)
Kind, Honest, Skeptical
60.
A positive correlation has a slope in a scatterplot closest to ____.
a)
0.5
b)
0
c)
1
d)
-1
61.
What is the median of the data?
a)
The most frequently occuring score
b)
The middle score of a distribution
c)
The arithmetic average
d)
The difference between the highest and lowest score
62.
The most frequently occurring score(s) in a distriution is the ______.
a)
Mode
b)
Mean
c)
Median
d)
Range
63.
The less soda I drink, the more energy I have. What kind of correlation is this?
a)
No correlation
b)
Positive
c)
Negative
d)
All the above
64.
A teacher wants to find out the average score of their class' test. What should she use to figure it out?
a)
Mode
b)
Mean
c)
Median
d)
Range
65.
Which of the following is NOT an ethical principle that must be followed in any scientific study?
a)
Deception must be justified
b)
Research must be proved through evidence
c)
Confidentiality
d)
People come first
66.
What is a placebo effect?
a)
The "cause" variable
b)
The variable that is affected
c)
Experimental results caused by expectations alone
d)
Stays the same
67.
Which one is NOT a measure of central tendancy?
a)
Standard deviation
b)
Mean
c)
Median
d)
Range
68.
Which one is a definition for dependant?
a)
Cause
b)
Variable affected
c)
Manipulate
d)
Variable not exposed
69.
which of the following is not an ethical guideline created to safe guard human participants?
a)
informed consent
b)
protection from a physical or emotional harm or discomfort
c)
participants may not withdraw at any time
d)
confidentiality
70.
Which of these is NOT a way to measure variation?
a)
Range
b)
Standard Deviation
c)
Normal Curve
d)
scatter plot
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