STRAIGHTERLINE PSY120 FINAL EXAM
FINAL PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Clinical psychologist. Answer: diagnose and treat psychological
problems
ex: depression, anxiety, etc,
work in clinics or practices,
⩥ applied psychologist. Answer: extend principles of scientific
psychology to practical problems
⩥ research psychologist. Answer: conduct basic research to discover the
principles of behavior and mind
⩥ mean. Answer: average of a set of scores
⩥ median Answer: middle point in set of scores
⩥ mode Answer: most frequently occurring score
⩥ range Answer: top score - bottom score
, ⩥ confounding variable Answer: uncontrolled variable that changes
along with the independent variable,
ex: giving an ad to people, must give them same exact ad, time to read it,
time of day, etc, in order to have NO confounding variables
⩥ dependent variable Answer: behavior that is measured in an
experiment
ex: how much aggression someone has after they watch something
⩥ independent variable Answer: aspect of the environment that is
manipulated in an experiment, must consist of two conditions
ex: the level of violence in the thing the person watches
⩥ placebo Answer: inactive substance that resembles an experimental
substance
ex: they give people a fake drug in an experiment
⩥ correlational research Answer: stats that indicate whether two
variables vary together in a systematic way, from +1.00 to -1.00
⩥ experimental research Answer: technique in which the investigator
manipulated the environment to observe its effect on the behavior
FINAL PAPER 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
⩥ Clinical psychologist. Answer: diagnose and treat psychological
problems
ex: depression, anxiety, etc,
work in clinics or practices,
⩥ applied psychologist. Answer: extend principles of scientific
psychology to practical problems
⩥ research psychologist. Answer: conduct basic research to discover the
principles of behavior and mind
⩥ mean. Answer: average of a set of scores
⩥ median Answer: middle point in set of scores
⩥ mode Answer: most frequently occurring score
⩥ range Answer: top score - bottom score
, ⩥ confounding variable Answer: uncontrolled variable that changes
along with the independent variable,
ex: giving an ad to people, must give them same exact ad, time to read it,
time of day, etc, in order to have NO confounding variables
⩥ dependent variable Answer: behavior that is measured in an
experiment
ex: how much aggression someone has after they watch something
⩥ independent variable Answer: aspect of the environment that is
manipulated in an experiment, must consist of two conditions
ex: the level of violence in the thing the person watches
⩥ placebo Answer: inactive substance that resembles an experimental
substance
ex: they give people a fake drug in an experiment
⩥ correlational research Answer: stats that indicate whether two
variables vary together in a systematic way, from +1.00 to -1.00
⩥ experimental research Answer: technique in which the investigator
manipulated the environment to observe its effect on the behavior
