Transcript Mid-Term - Unit 2 Review

iClicker Questions for
Psychology for AP
by David G. Myers
Karla Gingerich, Colorado State University
Unit 2: Research Methods: Thinking
Critically With Psychological Science
Which of the following is TRUE?:
A. Hypnosis is an effective way to help people
relive long-buried memories.
B. Electroconvulsive therapy is no longer used.
C. Most people do not suffer from unrealistically
low self-esteem.
D. Opposites generally attract.
Which of the following correlation
coefficients indicates the strongest
relationship between variables?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Positive .05.
Negative .25.
Positive .75.
Negative .95.
Which of the following represents the
average score in a distribution?
A.
B.
C.
D.
The mode
The mean
The median
The standard deviation
Following massive damage to his frontal
lobes, Phineas Gage was most strikingly
debilitated by:
A.
B.
C.
D.
irritability.
memory loss.
auditory hallucinations.
a reward deficiency syndrome.
Jack accidentally touches a hot stove.
Such a strong stimulus:
A. increases the intensity of a neuron’s action
potential.
B. affects the speed that a neuron fires.
C. triggers more neurons to fire.
D. does not affect how often a neuron fires.
Critical Thinking Questions
After watching their favorite team lose a
game, Emma and her friends
commented to each other about how
they had always known the loss was
inevitable. Psychologists call this:
A.
B.
C.
D.
overconfidence
The false consensus effect
The hindsight bias
An illusory correlation
Dr. Anderson conducts an experiment to see
whether exposure to helpful models leads to helping
behavior in young children. Of the forty girls and
boys in his study, half are exposed to helpful models
while the other half watch the same models not
engaged in helping behavior. In this experiment, the
dependent variable is:
A.
B.
C.
D.
the gender of the children
Helpful or non-helpful models
the age of children
helping behavior
A significant disadvantage of the
correlational approach is that it:
A. does not provide evidence of cause and effect.
B. cannot be used to examine relationships
between variables that exist naturally
C. does not aid in the process of prediction.
D. does not provide information about how two
variables are related.
After conducting an experiment, Dr.
Fitzpatrick concluded that there was a
statistically significant difference
between the scores of the experimental
and control groups. In other words,
A. the difference is highly meaningful and important to
scientists
B. the results are replicable
C. the scores differed by five points or more
D. it is unlikely that the difference occurred by chance.