WorksheetsAP Psychology - Quiz Unit 0
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 14mins
Harrison observed people who read fiction were also artists. Whenever Harrison shared this observation with his friends, they said teenagers only do those activities to meet school requirements. Harrison disagreed, instead believing that personality explained an association between reading novels & being artistic. Even when Harrison learned that having access to books & art was the biggest predictor of participating in these activities, he continued to believe that his original idea was correct. Which element of the scientific attitude should Harrison improve if he wants to engage in scientific inquiry more effectively?
Skepticism
Curiosity
Humility
Questioning
Dr. Tazurphase asked 100 people who were in line to ride the largest roller coaster in the world if they would be willing to purchase and drive a flying car. He also gave each person a survey asking questions about their personalities. Based on his results, he claimed that people who are efficient and open to new things were the most willing to purchase and drive a flying car. Which of the following describes one issue with Dr. Tazurphase's study?
Dr. Tazurphase did not choose a large enough sample, so he is unable to make claims about the larger population's willingness to buy a flying car.
Dr. Tazurphase did not choose a representative sample, so he is unable to make claims about the larger population's willingness to purchase a flying car.
Dr. Tazurphase did not include a control group to compare his results against, so he cannot determine the cause of someone's willingness to purchase a flying car.
Dr. Tazurphase did not randomly assign participants to groups, so he cannot determine the cause of someone's willingness to purchase a flying car.
Researchers have discovered that individuals with lower income levels report having fewer hours of total sleep. Therefore…
Income and sleep levels are not correlated.
Income and sleep levels are positively correlated.
Income and sleep levels are negatively correlated.
Lower income levels cause individuals to have fewer hours of sleep.
The purpose of random assignment is to
generate operational definitions for the independent and dependent variables.
give every member of the population an equal chance to participate in the research.
reduce potential confounding variables.
eliminate the placebo effect.
Much of the research regarding the function of brain areas has been gathered from case studies of individuals with brain injury or disease. Which of the following identifies a reason for this?
Quantitative research studies cannot demonstrate cause and effect between variables.
The independent variable in an experiment would inflict brain injury, which is unethical.
There would be no relationship between an injured area of the brain and the functioning of that respective area.
It is not possible to find enough participants to conduct a proper qualitative research study.
Dr. Guarini is interested in conducting research that examines how much information people can hold in their working memory. She is unsure whether she needs to conduct an experiment or correlational research. Experimental research differs from correlational research in that experimental research can do which of the following?
uses a dependent variable
allows for prediction
defines the strength of the relation
may reveal a causal relation
What is the name of the approach that uses observation and testing to draw conclusions?
Qualitative
Quantitative
Scientific
Critical
Match the following
case study
in-depth research on one person
survey
collected info from a large group
naturalistic observation
collected from a natural environment
experiment
uses random assignment
Which of the following correlation coefficients represents the strongest relationship between two variables?
-0.85
+1.5
+0.75
-0.05
Which of the following is an example of hindsight bias?
Dr. Grace overestimates the effectiveness of her new treatment method because she fails to seek out any evidence refuting her theory.
Armend is certain that electric cars will represent 80% of vehicles in 20 years & only reads research studies that support his hypothesis.
Lorraine underestimates how much time it will take her to finish writing her college application essays & fails to meet an important deadline.
Alliyah, after reading a definition on one of her flashcards, turns the card over to see the term & then tells herself she knew what the answer was all along.
