AP Psychology Unit 1 Question And Answers.
Graded A+. 2024-2025.
1. Who found structuralism and the first psychology lab?
a) Wilhelm Wundt
b) William James
c) Sigmund Freud
d) Aristotle
2. The thought that psychology should be based off of observable events, not the mind is:
a) Functionalism
b) Behaviorism
c) Structuralism
d) Empiricism
3. Studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior:
a) Biopsychological perspective
b) Cognitive perspective
c) Evolutionary perspective
d) Psychoanalytic perspective
4. What research method did Wilhelm Wundt use?
a) Structuralism
b) Introspection
c) Naturalistic observation
d) Scientific
5. Which of the following concepts is most important in Sigmund Feud’s theory?
a) Trephining
b) Unconscious mind
c) Structuralism
d) Behaviorism
6. Dr. Ryan explains to a client that his feelings of hostility toward a coworker are most likely caused by the way
the client interprets the coworker’s actions and the way he thinks that people should behave at work. Dr. Ryan
is most likely working from what perspective?
a) Behavioral
b) Humanist
c) Cognitive
d) Psychoanalytic
7. Which of the following is a humanist?
a) William James
b) Ivan Pavlov
c) B.F. Skinner
d) Abraham Maslow
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, 8. A therapist says she uses a psychological perspective that works the best. What perspective does she use?
a) Social-cultural
b) Eclectic
c) Humanistic
d) Functionalist
9. Charlotte and Tamar are lab partners assigned to research who are friendlier, girls or boys. After conversing
with their 10 participants , they find that their ratings differ totally. What are they having issues with?
a) Reliability
b) Ethics
c) Validity
d) Assignment
10. Which of the following is an example of random sampling?
I. Picking out of a hat to assign each of 3 classes to an experimental condition.
II. Having a computer generating a random list of 100 high school students.
III. Approaching any 50 students during sixth period lunch.
a) I only
b) II only
c) III only
d) I and II
11. What is the median of: 6, 2, 9, 4, 7, 3
a) 4
b) 5
c) 5.5
d) 6
12. Emma scores a 100/100 on a test that everyone else fails. If we were to graph this distribution, it would be:
a) Symmetrical
b) Normal
c) Positively skewed
d) Negatively skewed
13. Cecelia, a nursery school student, hypothesizes that boys have flights with the finger paints more than girls do.
She tests her hypothesis by casually watching the finger painting table for 3 days of nursery school. What
method is she using?
a) Case study
b) Field experiment
c) Naturalistic observation
d) Ethnography
14. Humanistic psychologists focused on the importance of:
a) Childhood memories
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Graded A+. 2024-2025.
1. Who found structuralism and the first psychology lab?
a) Wilhelm Wundt
b) William James
c) Sigmund Freud
d) Aristotle
2. The thought that psychology should be based off of observable events, not the mind is:
a) Functionalism
b) Behaviorism
c) Structuralism
d) Empiricism
3. Studies how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior:
a) Biopsychological perspective
b) Cognitive perspective
c) Evolutionary perspective
d) Psychoanalytic perspective
4. What research method did Wilhelm Wundt use?
a) Structuralism
b) Introspection
c) Naturalistic observation
d) Scientific
5. Which of the following concepts is most important in Sigmund Feud’s theory?
a) Trephining
b) Unconscious mind
c) Structuralism
d) Behaviorism
6. Dr. Ryan explains to a client that his feelings of hostility toward a coworker are most likely caused by the way
the client interprets the coworker’s actions and the way he thinks that people should behave at work. Dr. Ryan
is most likely working from what perspective?
a) Behavioral
b) Humanist
c) Cognitive
d) Psychoanalytic
7. Which of the following is a humanist?
a) William James
b) Ivan Pavlov
c) B.F. Skinner
d) Abraham Maslow
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, 8. A therapist says she uses a psychological perspective that works the best. What perspective does she use?
a) Social-cultural
b) Eclectic
c) Humanistic
d) Functionalist
9. Charlotte and Tamar are lab partners assigned to research who are friendlier, girls or boys. After conversing
with their 10 participants , they find that their ratings differ totally. What are they having issues with?
a) Reliability
b) Ethics
c) Validity
d) Assignment
10. Which of the following is an example of random sampling?
I. Picking out of a hat to assign each of 3 classes to an experimental condition.
II. Having a computer generating a random list of 100 high school students.
III. Approaching any 50 students during sixth period lunch.
a) I only
b) II only
c) III only
d) I and II
11. What is the median of: 6, 2, 9, 4, 7, 3
a) 4
b) 5
c) 5.5
d) 6
12. Emma scores a 100/100 on a test that everyone else fails. If we were to graph this distribution, it would be:
a) Symmetrical
b) Normal
c) Positively skewed
d) Negatively skewed
13. Cecelia, a nursery school student, hypothesizes that boys have flights with the finger paints more than girls do.
She tests her hypothesis by casually watching the finger painting table for 3 days of nursery school. What
method is she using?
a) Case study
b) Field experiment
c) Naturalistic observation
d) Ethnography
14. Humanistic psychologists focused on the importance of:
a) Childhood memories
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