AP Psychology: Research Methods and Intelligence Testing

Question 1

Effects that occur when subjects experience change due to expectations (or to "fake" treatment)

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Placebo effects

Question 2

The initial idea of the "g factor" to represent general intelligence was proposed by

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Charles Spearman

Question 3

Precisely defines ea. variable in study in terms of operations needed to produce/measure them

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Operational definition

Question 4

A link or association between variables such that one can be predicted from the other

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Correlation

Question 5

A condition or event that an experimenter manipulates in order to observe its impact

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Independent variable

Question 6

Who created the original Intelligence test to measure mental age?

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Binet

Question 7

Which is NOT a type of intelligence measured by Gardner?

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Creativity

Question 8

Judgment inferred from statistics that probability of observed findings occurring b/chance= low

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Statistical significance

Question 9

Any variables other than the IVs that seem likely to influence the DV in an experiment

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Extraneous variables

Question 10

The spread or dispersion of data, including the extent to which scores vary from the mean

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Variability

Question 11

Descriptive statistic & measure of central tendency; exact halfway point of data distribution

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Median

Question 12

Research strategy i/w neither subjects nor experimenters know which condition subjects are in

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Double-blind procedure

Question 13

What did the studies of twins, testing their IQ tell us about intelligence?

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IQ is inherited

Question 14

What did Francis Galton test for in an attempt to measure intelligence?

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Natural Abilities

Question 15

The two types of intelligence are

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fluid and crystallized

Question 16

A tentative statement about the expected relationship between two or three variables

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Hypothesis

Question 17

What intelligence score is determined as a low extreme of intelligence?

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Below 70

Question 18

Researchers have identified many different chromosomal regions in intelligence this indicates

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a polygenetic trait

Question 19

The group in an experiment that is not exposed to manipulation of the independent variable

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Control group

Question 20

The correlation of intelligence test scores between identical twins is

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higher when they are raised together.

Question 21

Statistics helpful in organizing and summarizing (but not interpreting) data

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Descriptive statistics

Question 22

The arithmetic average

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Mean

Question 23

The group in an experiment that is exposed to manipulation of the independent variable

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Experimental group

Question 24

Who created the triarchic theory of intelligence?

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Robert Sternberg

Question 25

Distribution of subjects in experiment i/w each has equal chance of being assigned to any group

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Random assignment

Question 26

Exists when a sample is not representative of the population from which it was drawn

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Sampling bias

Question 27

The AP Psychology test is an example of an

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Achievement test

Question 28

if the College Board left out questions about neuroscience on the AP exam, the test would lack

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content validity

Question 29

Research method in which IVs are manipulated and which permits causal interpretation

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Experiment

Question 30

Research supports that _____ is more powerful than _____ in predicting intelligence.

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genetics; home environment

Question 31

Statistical procedures used to interpret data in an experiment and draw conclusions

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Inferential statistics

Question 32

A statistical procedure that combines the results of many studies

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Meta-analysis

Question 33

The statistic that indicates the degree and direction of relationship between variables

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Correlation coefficient

Question 34

All of the following are types of intelligence of triarchic theory except

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natural

Question 35

A system of interrelated ideas used to explain a set of observations

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Theory

Question 36

Support for a particular viewpoint through the use of personal (and frequently vivid) stories

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Anecdotal evidence

Question 37

Ratio of mental to chronological age (x100); Often considered a numeric value for intelligence

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Intelligence Quotient (I.Q.)

Question 38

Howard Gardner believed that intelligence was made up of how many types of intelligences?

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8

Question 39

The variable that results from the manipulation in an experiment

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Dependent variable

Question 40

Which of the following is the most frequently used intelligence test currently?

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WAIS (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)

Question 41

The trend that intelligence test performance has been rising is referred to as the

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Flynn Effect

Question 42

An in-depth, generally subjective, investigation of an individual subject

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Case study

Question 43

If you give a test to 100 4th graders and give the same test a month later, you're testing

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the test's reliability

Question 44

Occurs when a researcher's expectations influence the results of a study

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Experimenter bias

Question 45

For an intelligence test to be useful, it must be

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reliable, valid, and standardized.

Question 46

A measure of variability in data

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Standard deviation

Question 47

A larger group from which a sample is drawn and to which the researcher wishes to generalize

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Population

Question 48

The score that occurs most frequently

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Mode

Question 49

Occurs when an extraneous variable makes it difficult to sort out the effects of the IV

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Confounding of variables

Question 50

testing the problem-solving skills of 10, 20, and 30-year-olds in a study uses this method

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cross-sectional study

AP Psychology: Research Methods and Intelligence Testing

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