CLEP Psychology Practice Test 1 with
correct answers 2024
Psychologists who are interested in behavioral similarities and
differences between species are
a. biological psychologists.
b. experimental psychologists.
c. comparative psychologists.
d. animal psychologists.
e. physiological psychologists. - ANSWER-C
Employee morale and staff cooperation would be the concern of a(n)
a. clinical psychologist.
b. forensic psychologist.
c. social psychologist.
d. industrial and organizational psychologist.
e. business psychologist. - ANSWER-D
To determine if people are coming to a full stop at an intersection
with a new stop sign, the best research method would be a(n)
a. naturalistic observation.
b. experiment.
c. case study.
,d. correlation.
e. survey. - ANSWER-A
If a researcher wished to determine whether heat causes an increase
in aggression, the best approach would be to
a. observe people in a public park on hot and cold days.
b. compare and cross-reference weather reports with crime statistics.
c. recruit participants to a university study, put half in a cold room
and half in a hot room, and then observe their behavior.
d. compare crime rates in countries that are hot vs. cooler.
e. ask people if they feel irritable and prone to aggression in the hot
weather. - ANSWER-C. The only way to determine whether one
variable causes another is to do an experiment. Non-experimental
methods yield correlational results only. Researchers cannot make
causal statements from correlational results.
In an experiment, subjects given various amounts of alcohol drive a
course marked by orange pylons. The independent variable in this
experiment is the
a. various amounts of alcohol.
b. subjects' driving ability before alcohol consumption.
c. subjects' driving ability after alcohol consumption.
d. the number of orange pylons hit.
e. speed through the obstacle course. - ANSWER-A
Scientists use replication in order to
,a. increase validity.
b. increase research grants.
c. show cause and effect.
d. become more confident about their conclusions across a variety of
situations.
e. satisfy ethics requirements. - ANSWER-D
The psychological perspective which includes the assumption that
people are often unaware of the real motives behind their behavior is
a. psychoanalysis.
b. trait theory.
c. behaviorism.
d. cognitive psychology.
e. humanistic psychology. - ANSWER-A
The theorist who claimed that he could make any dozen healthy
babies into anything he wished through conditioning was
a. Wilhelm Wundt.
b. Sigmund Freud.
c. Carl Rogers
d. B. F. Skinner.
e. John Watson. - ANSWER-E. Watson was an extreme behaviorist.
The primary job of most brain cells is
a. transmitting messages.
, b. picking up sensations from the environment.
c. thinking and reasoning.
d. providing the brain with nutrients.
e. maintaining homeostasis. - ANSWER-A
The neuron's "senders" are the
a. myelin sheaths.
b. dendrites.
c. axon terminal buttons.
d. pons.
e. receptor sites. - ANSWER-C
Activity within a nerve cell is _____; activity between nerve cells is
_______.
a. positive; negative
b. electrical; chemical
c. chemical; electrical
d. electrical; electrical
e. chemical; chemical - ANSWER-B
The spinal cord is part of the
a. peripheral nervous system.
b. cerebellum.
c. central nervous system.
correct answers 2024
Psychologists who are interested in behavioral similarities and
differences between species are
a. biological psychologists.
b. experimental psychologists.
c. comparative psychologists.
d. animal psychologists.
e. physiological psychologists. - ANSWER-C
Employee morale and staff cooperation would be the concern of a(n)
a. clinical psychologist.
b. forensic psychologist.
c. social psychologist.
d. industrial and organizational psychologist.
e. business psychologist. - ANSWER-D
To determine if people are coming to a full stop at an intersection
with a new stop sign, the best research method would be a(n)
a. naturalistic observation.
b. experiment.
c. case study.
,d. correlation.
e. survey. - ANSWER-A
If a researcher wished to determine whether heat causes an increase
in aggression, the best approach would be to
a. observe people in a public park on hot and cold days.
b. compare and cross-reference weather reports with crime statistics.
c. recruit participants to a university study, put half in a cold room
and half in a hot room, and then observe their behavior.
d. compare crime rates in countries that are hot vs. cooler.
e. ask people if they feel irritable and prone to aggression in the hot
weather. - ANSWER-C. The only way to determine whether one
variable causes another is to do an experiment. Non-experimental
methods yield correlational results only. Researchers cannot make
causal statements from correlational results.
In an experiment, subjects given various amounts of alcohol drive a
course marked by orange pylons. The independent variable in this
experiment is the
a. various amounts of alcohol.
b. subjects' driving ability before alcohol consumption.
c. subjects' driving ability after alcohol consumption.
d. the number of orange pylons hit.
e. speed through the obstacle course. - ANSWER-A
Scientists use replication in order to
,a. increase validity.
b. increase research grants.
c. show cause and effect.
d. become more confident about their conclusions across a variety of
situations.
e. satisfy ethics requirements. - ANSWER-D
The psychological perspective which includes the assumption that
people are often unaware of the real motives behind their behavior is
a. psychoanalysis.
b. trait theory.
c. behaviorism.
d. cognitive psychology.
e. humanistic psychology. - ANSWER-A
The theorist who claimed that he could make any dozen healthy
babies into anything he wished through conditioning was
a. Wilhelm Wundt.
b. Sigmund Freud.
c. Carl Rogers
d. B. F. Skinner.
e. John Watson. - ANSWER-E. Watson was an extreme behaviorist.
The primary job of most brain cells is
a. transmitting messages.
, b. picking up sensations from the environment.
c. thinking and reasoning.
d. providing the brain with nutrients.
e. maintaining homeostasis. - ANSWER-A
The neuron's "senders" are the
a. myelin sheaths.
b. dendrites.
c. axon terminal buttons.
d. pons.
e. receptor sites. - ANSWER-C
Activity within a nerve cell is _____; activity between nerve cells is
_______.
a. positive; negative
b. electrical; chemical
c. chemical; electrical
d. electrical; electrical
e. chemical; chemical - ANSWER-B
The spinal cord is part of the
a. peripheral nervous system.
b. cerebellum.
c. central nervous system.
