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2024 Unit 1 AP Psych
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How do you find the mode?
You add up all the numbers it gives you
you don't find the mode
Find the number that comes up the most
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What is a case study?
The science of brief cases
A murder mystery
one individual or group is studied in depth to reveal universal principles
An already solved scenario
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In a research study _________, debriefing, and confidentiality are required ethical rules.
shared permission
public scrunity
Santa's permission
informed consent
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Which of the following set of numbers show the strongest degree of correlation between 2 variables?
+22
-55
+67
-87
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How do you calculate the mean?
Sum of all values divided by the number of values
Highest value- lowest value
most common data
middle of data set
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What is the definition of informed consent?
Not asking the patient anything
Permission granted from a patient
All of the above
Assuming the patient will agree
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What is a "Scatterplot"?
A graph that shows a relationship between two sets of variables
A graph that shows groups of data arranged by place value
A graph that uses dots on a number line to represent variables
A graph that uses bars to represent variables
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Institutional Review Boards
Intend to make research more scientifically relevant
Ensure that research does no harm towards humans or animals
Ensure that research protects institutions from harm
Have existed as long as scholars have carried out research
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Double-Blind Study
Where the researchers and participants are blind.
Where the placebo effect occurs.
Blind people trying to study for their AMDM test.
Where researchers and participants don't know who is getting the treatment.
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A representative sample is the selection of people from a larger population in an unbiased way.
True
False
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With a positive correlation, what happens to one variable if the other one increases?
There is no relation
It stays the same
It decreases
It also increases
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Choose the correlation coefficient with a weak correlation.
0.62
0.15
-0.98
-0.54
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In psychology what do researchers consider to mean "population"
a select few in a whole group
people living in a community
a whole group that you want to study
the ammount of people in the world
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William James created the school of functionalism and wrote
The Question of Lay Analysis
The Principles of Psychology
On the Interpretation of Dreams
Psychology as the Behaviorist Views It
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Mary Whiton Calkins was denied her PHD at Harvard and ...
Got a Ph.D at Harvard
Accepted colleges discrimination policies
studied structralism and was the 1st woman president of the APA
Got a Ph.D at Radcliffe
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What is a confounding variable?
The variable that is being measured
Variables that may interfere with the results
Factors that are kept constant in an experiment
The variable you manipulate
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Margaret Floy Washburn was the 1st female to ...
Win the noble peace prize in psychology
Earn a PHD in psychology
Develop the theory of structualism
create the first Psychology labortory in the U.S.
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How do you calculate the Range?
The number in the middle of a set of Data.
The number in the middle of a set of Data.
Subtract smallest number from the largest number.
Use a tape measure.
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Wilhelm Wundt is credited with what?
Setting up the first psychology laboratory
Creating the study of physiology
Inventing the Gestalt principles
Becoming the first behavioralist
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What is an operational definition?
A statement of the procedures used to define research variables
The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable being studied
A factor besides the independent variable that might produce an effect
The outcome factor
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Experimental Research Design
None of the above
Uses variable that are not manipulated
Defined as a cause & effect relationship between variables
answer A and B
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Statistical Significance
Outcome not due to chance
Null hypothesis is not rejected
always have clinical significance
Due to the cohort effect
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The Institution Animal Care and Use Community
Making sure the food supply for animals are safe
Making sure toys are safe for animals
Making sure animals are being care and given respect during research
Making sure the environment is safe
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Sampling errors...
are results that are statistically unlikely to have occurred by chance
is the chance that the outcome of the experiment will occur
are avoidable and should never happen
are differences between results from whole group and results from small
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Random Selection
How selecting animals impact samples
How sample members are chosen from a population
How well a group does
How animals are chosen for procedures
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Double-Blind Study
Where researchers and participants don't know who is getting the treatment.
Where the researchers and participants are blind.
Blind people trying to study for their AMDM test.
Where the placebo effect occurs.
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What is single blind study?
participants don't know which group they are in (experimental or control)
All groups know who is receiving the treatment, except for the researcher
Only the control group knows who is receiving the treatment
Only the experimental group know who is receiving the treatment
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The STRONGER the correlation, the further it is from ZERO (whether positive or negative). Which is the STRONGEST?
-0.194
-0.799
0.915
0.421
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The control group is:
the group that is not receiving the treatment
the changed variable
the variable that remains the same
the group that has a changed variable
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What is a case study?
A long study.
Diamond and Sigmondson
In depth study of an individual or institution.
When you study a suit case.
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During experimental research causal relationships
Any link between two variables
Cause one variable to be responsible for the change in the other variable
One variable increases as a second variable decreases
The two variables increase/decrease together
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If I floss more, then I will have fewer cavities. What is the independent variable?
Amount of flossing
Number of cavities
Type of floss
teeth
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illusory correlation
experimental setting; a factor that varies in amount & kind
subset of population selected as participants in experiment
a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
the perception of a relationship where none exists
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Does pipe material affect the temperature of flowing water? What is the dependent variable?
Pipe material
flowing water
Water temperature
Diameter of the pipe
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Why is a survey important?
Is the law
Helps the environment
Provides data of a large group of people
Provides peace around the world
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How do you find the median of a number?
You put the numbers in order, then see what the middle is.
you multiply and divide
You put numbers in order
You add up everything
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The Experimental Group is the group that __________.
Gets the placebo
Gets a reward
Gets the treatment
Gets to dance
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Charles Darwin founded the theory of
voice leading
evolution by natural selection and functionalism
social psychology
communist revolution
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Correlational research is most useful for purposes of
experimentation.
prediction.
explanation.
control.
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Inferential statistics:
summarize data
describe data
build upon data
generalize data to other populations
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What is a placebo?
experimental procedure
None of the above
Harmful medication in a study
Empty sample that has no effect on an active study
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In a normal distribution, approximately what % of the scores occur with 1 standard deviation above and below the mean?
95%
33%
68%
99.7%
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Empiricism is:
Belief that all knowledge must come from the brain.
Belief that all knowledge must come from the heavens.
Belief that all knowledge must come through the senses.
Belief that all knowledge must come through the internet.
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Operational definitions
allow a study to be statistically significant
force researchers to rely on introspection
are what the researcher changes in an experiment
define variables and allow for study replication
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What is a negative correlation?
One variable increases and the other increases.
One variable causes the other to increase by increasing.
One variable increases and the other decreases.
Both variables decrease together.
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Correlation = causation
False
True
