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WorksheetsAP Psychology History and Approaches and Research Methods
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 22mins
Which approach to psychology explains how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information?
biological
evolutionary
cognitive
social-cultural
Which psychologist developed the idea of Tabula rasa?
John Lock
Aristotle
Francis Bacon
Jean Piaget
What subfield of psychology is able to prescribe medication and diagnosis disorders?
counseling psychologist
biological psychologist
industrial-organizational psychologist
psychiatrist
When conducting an experiment, the researcher gives one group a sugar pill without their knowledge in order to determine whether a new drug helps relieve the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD). If subjects within this group report that the pill helped relieve their symptoms this would be known as the _______?
reliability
validity
placebo effect
levels of analysis
Titchner: _______ :: Skinner: _______
structuralism, functionalism
structuralism, behaviorism
functionalism, behaviorism
humanism, structuralism
Which issue is one of the most debated in the field of psychology regarding what contributes most to an individual's behaviors and thought processes?
(a)
In a normal curve, what percent of data falls within two standard deviations of the mean?
68%
95%
99.7%
What measure of central tendency is most affected by extreme data values?
(a)
Which psychologist is credited with the creation of the hierarchy of needs?
Abraham Maslow
Carl Rogers
Ivan Pavlov
Konrad Lorenz
What kind of research method does not impose a treatment, but allows the researcher to watch the subject's habits and/or actions?
(a)
(a) is the tendency to overestimate the extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors
What kind of correlation is depicted in the graph?
weak positive
strong positive
weak negative
strong positive
What kind of psychologist would study the differences between America and Japan regarding the relationship between parent and child?
humanistic
cognitive
behavioral
social-cultural
What is the term used for an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles?
(a)
(a) is the term used to describe a statement of the procedures (operations) used to define research variables
Which female psychologist became the first female president of the American Psychological Association in 1905?
Margaret Floy Washburn
Mary Calkins
(a) is the perception of a relationship where none exists
A professor is doing an experiment on how the temperature of the room impacts test taking performance. He randomly assigns one group of students to a room with a temperature lower than the students are accustomed to and one group of students to a room with the temperature they are accustomed to. However another professor suggests that motivation to study could be a _______ which could possibly affect the results of the experiment.
independent variable
dependent variable
confounding variable
intervening variable
Genie the "feral child" is an important (a) in linguistic and developmental psychology
Unlike _______, Aristotle believed that knowledge was not pre-existing
Socrates & Plato
Francis Bacon
John Lock
Renee Descartes
