APEX Psych Final Exam UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
The first research in psychology investigated consciousness using a technique called -
CORRECT ANSWER Introspection
A psychologist that might work as a consultant for a large financial service company -
CORRECT ANSWER Industrial Organizational psychologist
Behaviorist perspective - CORRECT ANSWER Observe the effectiveness of rewards
for improving academic improvemnt
Perspective that places emphasis on personal development and fulfillment of individual
potential - CORRECT ANSWER Humanistic perspective
Describes behavior in terms of what best suits an organism in successful reproduction and
survival - CORRECT ANSWER Evolutionary perspective
Perspective that states unconscious motivations and desires shape human behavior -
CORRECT ANSWER Psychodynamic
Gestalt - CORRECT ANSWER Organizations pieces of the pattern into a whole picture
Carl Rogers - CORRECT ANSWER Played a key role in the development of
humanistic perspective
Response Variable - CORRECT ANSWER Is measured after treatment
Negative/Inverse - CORRECT ANSWER When correlation is negative. Ex: Test scores
go down as TV watching time goes up
, Describes strength and direction of relationship between variables - CORRECT
ANSWER Correlational
Practice of repeating experiments on different subjects or under different conditions -
CORRECT ANSWER Replication
Double Blind Condition - CORRECT ANSWER Best method to control placebo effect
in experimentor and subject
No change, no difference, no new finding - CORRECT ANSWER Null hypothesis
Allows us to draw casual conclusion - CORRECT ANSWER Experimental research
Representative - CORRECT ANSWER Sample resembles population which you wish
to generalize
Debreifing - CORRECT ANSWER Full explanation of nature and purpose of a study
after its conclusion
Arithmetical average - CORRECT ANSWER mean
Correlation is .82 - CORRECT ANSWER Strong and Positive correlation
Mean is 3, SD is 1, raw score is 4.5 - CORRECT ANSWER Z-score is 1.5
Examples of nominal data - CORRECT ANSWER Mental illness, ethnic background,
political affiliation
Bell Curve - CORRECT ANSWER Normal distribution
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
The first research in psychology investigated consciousness using a technique called -
CORRECT ANSWER Introspection
A psychologist that might work as a consultant for a large financial service company -
CORRECT ANSWER Industrial Organizational psychologist
Behaviorist perspective - CORRECT ANSWER Observe the effectiveness of rewards
for improving academic improvemnt
Perspective that places emphasis on personal development and fulfillment of individual
potential - CORRECT ANSWER Humanistic perspective
Describes behavior in terms of what best suits an organism in successful reproduction and
survival - CORRECT ANSWER Evolutionary perspective
Perspective that states unconscious motivations and desires shape human behavior -
CORRECT ANSWER Psychodynamic
Gestalt - CORRECT ANSWER Organizations pieces of the pattern into a whole picture
Carl Rogers - CORRECT ANSWER Played a key role in the development of
humanistic perspective
Response Variable - CORRECT ANSWER Is measured after treatment
Negative/Inverse - CORRECT ANSWER When correlation is negative. Ex: Test scores
go down as TV watching time goes up
, Describes strength and direction of relationship between variables - CORRECT
ANSWER Correlational
Practice of repeating experiments on different subjects or under different conditions -
CORRECT ANSWER Replication
Double Blind Condition - CORRECT ANSWER Best method to control placebo effect
in experimentor and subject
No change, no difference, no new finding - CORRECT ANSWER Null hypothesis
Allows us to draw casual conclusion - CORRECT ANSWER Experimental research
Representative - CORRECT ANSWER Sample resembles population which you wish
to generalize
Debreifing - CORRECT ANSWER Full explanation of nature and purpose of a study
after its conclusion
Arithmetical average - CORRECT ANSWER mean
Correlation is .82 - CORRECT ANSWER Strong and Positive correlation
Mean is 3, SD is 1, raw score is 4.5 - CORRECT ANSWER Z-score is 1.5
Examples of nominal data - CORRECT ANSWER Mental illness, ethnic background,
political affiliation
Bell Curve - CORRECT ANSWER Normal distribution
