WorksheetsAP Psychology Chapter 1 Vocabulary
Total questions: 33
Worksheet time: 17mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is a technique for ascertaining the self-reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group?
a)
Survey
b)
Correlation
c)
Scatter plots
d)
Experiment
2.
What is the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it; also known as the "I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon.
a)
Hypothesis
b)
Median
c)
Experiment
d)
Hindsight Bias
3.
What is rationally deciding what to believe or what to do?
a)
Naturalistic Observation
b)
Critical Thinking
c)
Illusory Correlation
d)
Control Group
4.
What is the beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people?
a)
History
b)
Culture
c)
Religion
d)
Information
5.
What is a hypothesis that has been tested with a significant amount of data?
a)
Theory
b)
Case Study
c)
Random Sample
d)
Experiment
6.
What is a testable prediction, often implied by a theory?
a)
Operational Definition
b)
Random Assignment
c)
Hypothesis
d)
Culture
7.
What is a statement of the procedures used to define research variables?
a)
Operational Definition
b)
Independent variable
c)
Standard deviation
d)
double-blind procedure
8.
What term refers to replicating the original study?
a)
Range
b)
Mode
c)
Scatterplots
d)
Replicate
9.
What is an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles?
a)
Placebo effect
b)
Double-blind procedure
c)
Operational definition
d)
Case Study
10.
What is a study, generally in the form of an interview or questionnaire, that provides researchers with information about how people think and act?
a)
Culture
b)
Survey
c)
Theory
d)
Mode
11.
What is the whole group that you want to study and describe?
a)
Culture
b)
Hypothesis
c)
Population
d)
Range
12.
What is a sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion?
a)
Random Sample
b)
Operational Definition
c)
Correlation Coefficient
d)
Illusory correlation
13.
What is observing and recording behavior in naturally occurring situations without trying to manipulate and control the situation?
a)
Operational Definition
b)
Naturalistic Observation
c)
Illusory Correlation
d)
Experimental Group
14.
What is In an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment; contrasts with the experimental group and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment?
a)
Statistical Significance
b)
Experimental Group
c)
Control Group
d)
Dependent Variable
15.
What is a measure of the relationship between two variables?
a)
Correlation
b)
Correlation Coefficient
c)
Experiment
d)
Scatterplot
16.
What is a statistical index of the relationship between two things (from -1 to +1)?
a)
Correlation coefficient
b)
Random assignment
c)
Control group
d)
Confounding variable
17.
What is a graphed cluster of dots, each of which represents the values of two variables?
a)
Correlation Coefficient
b)
Illusory Correlation
c)
Scatterplot
d)
Double-blind procedure
18.
What is the perception of a relationship where none exists?
a)
Illusory correlation
b)
Correlation
c)
Correlation coefficient
d)
Independent variable
19.
What is a research method in which an investigator manipulates one or more factors to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process?
a)
Theory
b)
Experiment
c)
Correlation
d)
Culture
20.
What is assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance, thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to the different groups?
a)
Control group
b)
Placebo effect
c)
Case study
d)
Random assignment
21.
What is an experiment in which neither the participant nor the researcher knows whether the participant has received the treatment or the placebo?
a)
Dependent variable
b)
Double-Blind study
c)
Correlation coefficient
d)
Independent variable
22.
What are experimental results caused by expectations alone; any effect on behavior caused by the administration of an inert substance or condition, which is assumed to be an active agent?
a)
Control Group
b)
Normal Curve
c)
Placebo Effect
d)
Case Study
23.
What is a subject or group of subjects in an experiment that is exposed to the factor or condition being tested?
a)
Standard deviation
b)
Experimental group
c)
Random sample
d)
Operational definition
24.
What is in an experiment, the group that is not exposed to the treatment; contrasts with the experimental group and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment?
a)
Control Group
b)
Experimental group
c)
Dependent variable
d)
Independent variable
25.
What is (statistics) a variable whose values are independent of changes in the values of other variables?
a)
Independent Variable
b)
Dependent Variable
c)
Statistical significance
d)
Confounding Variable
26.
What is the outcome factor the variable that may change in response to manipulations of the independent variables --what you are measuring (ex. obesity rates)?
a)
Independent Variable
b)
Dependent Variable
c)
Confounding Variable
d)
Statistical significance
27.
What is the measure of central tendency that uses most frequently occurring score?
a)
Mode
b)
Median
c)
Mean
d)
Range
28.
What is average?
a)
Mode
b)
Mean
c)
Median
d)
Range
29.
What is a measure of center in a set of numerical data. The median of a list of values is the value appearing at the center of a sorted version of the list - or the mean of the two central values if the list contains an even number of values?
a)
Mode
b)
Mean
c)
Median
d)
Range
30.
What is the distance between highest and lowest scores in a set of data?
a)
Mode
b)
Mean
c)
Median
d)
Range
31.
What is a computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score?
a)
statistical significance
b)
normal curve
c)
standard deviation,
d)
range
32.
What is the symmetrical bell-shaped curve that describes the distribution of many physical and psychological attributes. Most scores fall near the average, and fewer and fewer scores lie near the extremes?
a)
Normal Curve
b)
Statistical Significance
c)
Median
d)
Culture
33.
What is a statistical statement of how likely it is that an obtained result occurred by chance?
a)
Standard Deviation
b)
Random Sample
c)
Hypothesis
d)
Statistical Significance
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