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AP Psychology Stats

Total questions: 23

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research experiment is known as

a)

replication

b)

operational definition

c)

hypothesis

d)

standardization

2.

A computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score dependent on the range and square root of total scores.

a)

inferential statistic

b)

standard deviation

c)

descriptive research

d)

average

3.

When scores are "bunched up"in the center of a distribution, the

a)

mean will be relatively low

b)

standard deviation will be relatively low

c)

correlation coefficiaent will be a negative number

d)

standard deviation will be relatively high

4.

Which of the following correlation coefficients expresses the weakest degree of relationship between two variables?

a)

-0.12

b)

+1.00

c)

-0.99

d)

+0.25

e)

-0.50

5.

Megalethia claims that her psychological research is “valid”. What does she mean?

a)

The study was successful

b)

The study proved her hypothesis

c)

The study failed

d)

The study was done in a lab

e)

The study measures what it claims to measure

6.

what is single blind?

a)

research method in which a researcher manipulates one or more factors while controlling others

b)

assigning participants to experimental/control group by chance.

c)

an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles. If the individual studied is atypical, the results may be misleading.

d)

A research method that helps reduce the chance that participants will guess what a study is about.

7.

The difference between the highest and lowest scores in a distribution.

a)

standard deviation

b)

variance

c)

range

d)

dependent variable

8.

The score that occurs most frequently

a)

mean

b)

median

c)

mode

d)

standard deviation

9.

Which of the following is the mode for the data set: 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9?

a)

4

b)

7

c)

9

10.

Which of the following is the median for the data set: 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9?

a)

4

b)

7

c)

9

11.

Which ethical consideration is allowed only if there are absolutely no other alternative means of gathering quality data

a)

Deception

b)

Informed Consent

c)

Professional relationship

d)

Right to withdraw

12.
The condition that exists when the probability that the findings are not due to chance
a)
statistical significance
b)
experimenter bias
c)
confounding variables
13.
"Monday Morning Quarterback" rarely act surprised about the outcome of the weekend football games.  This tendency to believe they knew how the game would turn out is best explained by which psychological principle?
a)
Overconfidence
b)
Hindsight Bias
c)
Intuition
d)
Illusory Correlation
14.
Which of the following is a potential problem for a case study?
a)
They provide too much detail and the researcher is likely to lose track of the most important facts.
b)
They are generally  too expensive to economical
c)
They may be misleading because they don't fairly represent other cases
d)
The dependent variable is difficult to operationally define in a case study
15.
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
16.

Which of the following methods best limits the influence of unknown variables in an experiment?

a)

Random assignment

b)

Debriefing

c)

Stratified Sampling

d)

Subject matching

e)

Correlational study

17.

Which of the following measures can be precisely located on the graph of a skewed distribution without doing any calculations?

a)

Mode

b)

Median

c)

Mean

d)

Standard deviation

e)

Variance

18.

It is important for researchers to use precise operational definitions when...

a)

They want to ensure that conditions are assigned randomly

b)

They want to be able to replicate the experiment

c)

They want to organize the hypothesis appropriately

d)

They are conducting experimental research but not correlational research

e)

They are conducting an experiment with no independent and dependent variables

19.
A psychological or physical treatment given to the control group that resembles the treatment given to the experimental group, but that contains no active ingredient. 
a)
independent variable
b)
placebo
c)
dependent variable
20.
Research design in which neither the experimenter nor the participants know who is in the experimental group and who is in control group.
a)
single blind study
b)
case study
c)
double blind study
21.

Ms. Costas owns a business with 9 other employees. Her annual salary is $90,000. Her manager's salary is $60,000. Of her other employees, 3 earn $25,000 each and 5 earn $15,000 each.

The rang of this distribution is?

a)

$75,000

b)

$50,000

c)

$25,000

d)

$20,000

e)

$15,000

22.

Ms. Costas owns a business with 9 other employees. Her annual salary is $90,000. Her manager's salary is $60,000. Of her other employees, 3 earn $25,000 each and 5 earn $15,000 each.

For this distribution, the mean is?

a)

Lower than both the median and the mode

b)

Lower than the median, but higher than the mode

c)

lower than the mode, but higher than the median

d)

higher than both the median and the mode

e)

the same as the median

23.

If you convert a score into a z-score, the distribution will...

a)

Change its shape

b)

Change the location between scores in the distribution

c)

Have a mean of zero and a standard deviation of one

d)

None of the above