WorksheetsUnit 0 Assessment Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Sadie loves softball. She believes that when she wears a certain pair of socks, she plays better. Which type of flawed thinking is Sadie using?
a)
confirmation bias
b)
overconfidence
c)
hindsight bias
d)
illusory correlation
2.
Which of the following describes the placebo effect?
a)
Students in art class are not told that their work will be evaluated for a scholarship so they do not submit their best work.
b)
Participants in an experiment do not know if they are in the experimental or control group so their attitudes about the study are unaffected.
c)
Participants in a drug study are given an inert pill instead of the drug and behave as though they were given the drug.
d)
Only women are chosen for a study, even though the population included men
3.
Dr. Schmidlap is studying caffeine levels and sleep quality. Instead of having participants come to a sleep lab, she monitors sleep quality by looking at the data that participants’ phones provide while they sleep in their own beds. Which type of research method is Dr. Schmidlap using?
a)
a case study
b)
naturalistic observation
c)
an experiment
d)
a meta-analysis
4.
Which method should a psychology researcher use if she is interested in testing whether a specific reward in a classroom situation causes students to behave better?
a)
Case study
b)
Experiment
c)
Survey
d)
Correlation
5.
Which of the following is an ethical principle regarding experimental research on humans?
a)
Regardless of the research design, all participants sign an informed consent form.
b)
Personal information about individual participants can only be revealed in peer-reviewed journals.
c)
Participants should always be informed of the hypothesis of the study before they agree to participate.
d)
Researchers must protect participants from needless harm and discomfort.
6.
Which of the following statements best describes the graph below?
a)
This is a scatterplot of a perfect positive correlation.
b)
This is a scatterplot of a weak negative correlation.
c)
This is a histogram of a weak positive correlation.
d)
This is a histogram of a perfect positive correlation.
7.
What is the name of the approach that uses observation and testing to draw conclusions?
a)
Qualitative
b)
Quantitative
c)
Scientific
d)
Critical
8.
Use this scenario to answer questions 16–20:
Researchers wanted to find out if eating sugary foods would increase a person’s ability to remember the names of U.S. presidents. The experiment involved 30 female and 30 male participants. A third of the participants (Group A) were given cookies while studying the names. Another third (Group B) were given nothing while studying the names. The final third (Group C) were given mint-flavored candy while studying the names. They were tested on the names a day later. The researchers found that Group A did substantially better than Group B, but about the same as Group C.
The dependent variable in this study is
a)
the test scores.
b)
the mint candy.
c)
the cookies.
d)
the list of presidents.
9.
Which of the elements of a scientific attitude is most associated with the question, “Does it work?”
a)
Humility
b)
Skepticism
c)
Argumentation
d)
Curiosity
10.
A testable prediction that drives research is known as a(n)
a)
theory
b)
hypothesis
c)
operational definition
d)
random sample
11.
A journalism student is writing an article about her school's new cell-phone policy, and she'd like to interview a random sample of students. Which of the following is the best example of a random sample?
a)
The writer arrives at school early and interviews the first five students who come through the main entrance.
b)
The writer pulls the names of five students from a hat that contains all students’ names. She interviews the five selected students.
c)
The writer asks her teacher if she can distribute a brief survey to the students in her AP® Psychology class.
d)
The writer passes out brief surveys to 50 students in the hall and uses the 18 surveys returned to her as the basis of her article.
12.
Which of the following is a potential problem with case studies?
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 be feasible.
c)
The information learned may not apply to the wider population.
d)
The dependent variable is difficult to operationally define in a case study.
13.
A focus on how we encode, process, store, and retrieve information is most relevant to the ____________ perspective.
a)
behavioral
b)
cognitive
c)
social-cultural
d)
evolutionary
14.
In a perfectly normal distribution of scores, which of the following statements is true?
a)
The mean, median, and mode are all the same number.
b)
The mode is equal to the standard deviation.
c)
The scores are positively correlated.
d)
There is a positive skew to the distribution of data.
15.
Which of the following represents naturalistic observation?
a)
Researchers go to the mall and distribute surveys about the stores in the mall.
b)
Researchers bring participants into a laboratory to see how they respond to a puzzle with no solution.
c)
A principal looks at the relationship between the number of student absences and their grades.
d)
Researchers observe students' seating patterns in the cafeteria
16.
Use this scenario to answer questions 16–20:
Researchers wanted to find out if eating sugary foods would increase a person’s ability to remember the names of U.S. presidents. The experiment involved 30 female and 30 male participants. A third of the participants (Group A) were given cookies while studying the names. Another third (Group B) were given nothing while studying the names. The final third (Group C) were given mint-flavored candy while studying the names. They were tested on the names a day later. The researchers found that Group A did substantially better than Group B, but about the same as Group C.
The independent variable in this study is
a)
food given.
b)
the list of presidents.
c)
the test scores.
d)
gender.
17.
Why is random assignment of participants to groups an important aspect of a properly designed experiment?
a)
If the participants are randomly assigned, the researcher can assume that each group is similar to each other at the beginning of the study.
b)
By randomly assigning participants, the researcher knows that whatever is learned from the experiment will also be true for the population from which the participants were selected.
c)
If participants are not randomly assigned, it is impossible to replicate the experiment.
d)
Statistical analysis cannot be performed on an experiment if random assignment is not used.
18.
A student is interested in knowing how widely the academic aptitude of college-bound students varies at her school. Which of the following statistical methods should she use to determine how much students’ SAT scores vary from the school’s average SAT score?
a)
Correlation coefficient
b)
Mean
c)
Percentile rank
d)
Standard deviation
19.
Use this scenario to answer questions 16–20:
Researchers wanted to find out if eating sugary foods would increase a person’s ability to remember the names of U.S. presidents. The experiment involved 30 female and 30 male participants. A third of the participants (Group A) were given cookies while studying the names. Another third (Group B) were given nothing while studying the names. The final third (Group C) were given mint-flavored candy while studying the names. They were tested on the names a day later. The researchers found that Group A did substantially better than Group B, but about the same as Group C.
Which of the following is/are the experimental group(s) of this study?
a)
Groups B & C
b)
Groups A & C
c)
Group B
d)
Group C
20.
Why is an operational definition necessary when
reporting research findings?
a)
An operational definition allows others to replicate the study.
b)
An operational definition provides many examples of the concept.
c)
An operational definition uses more scientific language than a dictionary definition.
d)
An operational definition considers contextual elements that may affect the study’s results.
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