Psych 12AP Midterm Open Book Practice Test Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Introspection was the basic research tool used by ________ in order to study people's inner sensations and mental images. a. John Watson b. Charles Darwin c. Edward Titchener d. B. F. Skinner e. Mary Calkins ____ 2. The early school of psychology known as functionalism was developed by a. Wilhelm Wundt. b. William James. c. René Descartes. d. John B. Watson. e. Sigmund Freud. ____ 3. Dr. Veenstra conducts basic research on the impact of racial prejudice on behavior. Dr. Veenstra is most likely a(n) ________ psychologist. a. developmental b. clinical c. social d. biological e. industrial-organizational ____ 4. When we see certain outcomes as obvious based on what has occurred, we may be experiencing a. empiricism. b. critical thinking. c. hindsight bias. d. overconfidence. e. humility. ____ 5. Our tendency to believe we know more than we do illustrates a. naturalistic observation. b. illusory correlation. c. overconfidence. d. the standard deviation. e. placebo. ____ 6. Which research method would be most appropriate for investigating the relationship between the religious beliefs of Americans and their attitudes toward abortion? a. the survey b. naturalistic observation c. the case study d. experimentation e. random assignment ____ 7. of the following is true for those assigned to the experimental group in an experiment? a. The experimenter exerts the greatest influence on participants' behavior. b. The research participants are exposed to all the different hypotheses. c. The experimental receives the experimental treatment d. The experimental group does not receive the experimental treatment e. The operational definition is not applied to their variables. ____ 8. In a distribution of test scores, which measure of central tendency would likely be the most affected by a couple of extremely high scores? a. median b. range
Psych 12AP Midterm Open Book Practice Test Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Introspection was the basic research tool used by ________ in order to study people's inner sensations and mental images. a. John Watson b. Charles Darwin c. Edward Titchener d. B. F. Skinner e. Mary Calkins ____ 2. The early school of psychology known as functionalism was developed by a. Wilhelm Wundt. b. William James. c. René Descartes. d. John B. Watson. e. Sigmund Freud. ____ 3. Dr. Veenstra conducts basic research on the impact of racial prejudice on behavior. Dr. Veenstra is most likely a(n) ________ psychologist. a. developmental b. clinical c. social d. biological e. industrial-organizational ____ 4. When we see certain outcomes as obvious based on what has occurred, we may be experiencing a. empiricism. b. critical thinking. c. hindsight bias. d. overconfidence. e. humility. ____ 5. Our tendency to believe we know more than we do illustrates a. naturalistic observation. b. illusory correlation. c. overconfidence. d. the standard deviation. e. placebo. ____ 6. Which research method would be most appropriate for investigating the relationship between the religious beliefs of Americans and their attitudes toward abortion? a. the survey b. naturalistic observation c. the case study d. experimentation e. random assignment ____ 7. of the following is true for those assigned to the experimental group in an experiment? a. The experimenter exerts the greatest influence on participants' behavior. b. The research participants are exposed to all the different hypotheses. c. The experimental receives the experimental treatment d. The experimental group does not receive the experimental treatment e. The operational definition is not applied to their variables. ____ 8. In a distribution of test scores, which measure of central tendency would likely be the most affected by a couple of extremely high scores? a. median b. range
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