AP Psychology: Unit - 1 - Scientific Foundations of Psychology Practice Test

Quentin has been monitoring what his siblings do when his parents yell at them, and how their actions change. His approach is most in line with what school of psychological thought?

Behavioral
Cognitive
Psychoanalytical
Humanistic
Structuralist

Theoretically today many people pull from multiple fields in order to support their comprehensive view of how to treat a client. Which view would probably be used to do this?

Structuralist
Functionalist
Biopsychosocial
Psychoanalytical
Developmental

Justine is at a lego factory watching the plastic being poured into the molds, and the pieces being stamped out for each character. This however is not as interesting as when she remembers playing with her completed legos. This experience most likely aligns with which school of psychological thought?

Humanistic
Gestalt
Developmental
Psychodynamic
Functionalism

Brielle is working to increase the productivity of employees during the holiday season at the retail store she is employed by. She is most likely what type of psychologist?

counseling
clinical
psychoanalytic
humanistic
industrial-organizational

Tristan tries to understand his world through his senses only, and explains how something makes him feel rather than attempting to record data. He most likely would agree with what school of thought?

functionalism
humanistic
structuralism
psychodynamic
evolutionary

Which of the following studies would John Watson have been likely to support?

attempting to retrain how a person thinks about when they are afraid
attempting to control a child's behavior with candy and other rewards and punishments
attempting to measure if environment can change the innate success of genetic components of a species
attempting to help a person achieve self-actualization through providing them with opportunities to improve themselves.
attempting to see if childhood trauma really does shape all later behavior in life

Which of the following groups changed the definition of Psychology to “the scientific study of observable behavior”?

Humanists
Psychodynamic psychologists
Cognitive psychologists
Behaviorists

Which correlation coefficient demonstrates the highest correlation?

0.92
-0.38
-0.11
0.67

Which of the following is a disadvantage of a case study?

takes too long
not specific enough
may not be a reliable representation of everyone – only that individual
They may not be honest

Which of the following shows a negative correlation?

As the temperature goes up, the amount of ice cream sales increases
The more absences Henry has, the lower his grades are
The taller you are, the more candy you eat
When you eat more food, your weight increases

What is a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study?

Hypothesis
Theory
Operational definition
Case study

What term is described when an explanation is using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events?

Hypothesis
Theory
Scientific Method
Operational Definitions

What is the tendency to believe after the outcome that one would have foreseen it?

Intuition
Humility
Hindsight bias
Overconfidence

What are the 3 most important traits for a psychologist?

Curiosity, skepticism, and humility
Intelligence, humility, humor
Curiosity, ignorance, organized
Smart, nice, skeptical

What is a double blind procedure?

Participants don't know which group they're in
Researchers don't know which group the participants are in
Neither participants nor researcher knows who is in which group
Both researcher and participants know who is in each group

What is the median of the data?

The most frequently occurring score
The middle score of a distribution
The arithmetic average
The difference between the highest and lowest score

Which one is NOT a measure of central tendency?

Standard deviation
Mean
Median
Mode

Which of the following relationships would most likely have the weakest correlation?

A school child’s age and vocabulary
A building’s height and weight
The number of fingers on a person’s hand and their intelligence
Air temperature and number of air conditioners being used
Amount of snowfall and number of skiers

Which of these is the only way to show or prove causation?

naturalistic observation
naturalistic observation
case study
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AP Psychology: Unit – 1 – Scientific Foundations of Psychology Practice Test

AP Psychology: Unit – 1 – Scientific Foundations of Psychology Practice Test

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1. Question

Quentin has been monitoring what his siblings do when his parents yell at them, and how their actions change. His approach is most in line with what school of psychological thought?

2. Question

Theoretically today many people pull from multiple fields in order to support their comprehensive view of how to treat a client. Which view would probably be used to do this?

3. Question

4. Question

Brielle is working to increase the productivity of employees during the holiday season at the retail store she is employed by. She is most likely what type of psychologist?

5. Question

Tristan tries to understand his world through his senses only, and explains how something makes him feel rather than attempting to record data. He most likely would agree with what school of thought?

6. Question

Which of the following studies would John Watson have been likely to support?

7. Question

Which of the following groups changed the definition of Psychology to “the scientific study of observable behavior”?

8. Question

Which correlation coefficient demonstrates the highest correlation?

9. Question

Which of the following is a disadvantage of a case study?

10. Question

Which of the following shows a negative correlation?

11. Question

What is a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures used in a research study?

12. Question

What term is described when an explanation is using an integrated set of principles that organizes observations and predicts behaviors or events?

13. Question

What is the tendency to believe after the outcome that one would have foreseen it?

14. Question

What are the 3 most important traits for a psychologist?

15. Question

What is a double blind procedure?

16. Question

What is the median of the data?

17. Question

Which one is NOT a measure of central tendency?

18. Question

Which of the following relationships would most likely have the weakest correlation?

19. Question

Which of these is the only way to show or prove causation?