Mod 4-8- Cortes AP Psychology Exam Questions With Verified Answers
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Mod 4-8- Cortes AP Psychology Exam Questions With Verified Answers
3 roadblocks to critical thinking - Answer-Hindsight bias, overconfidence, perceiving patterns in random events
hindsignt bias - Answer-tendency to believe after learning an outcome that we could've predicted the outcome "i...
3 roadblocks to critical thinking - Answer-Hindsight bias, overconfidence, perceiving
patterns in random events
hindsignt bias - Answer-tendency to believe after learning an outcome that we could've
predicted the outcome "i knew it all along", roadblock to critical thinking
overconfidence - Answer-the tendency to think we know more than we do, roadblock to
critical thinking
curiosity, skepticism, humility - Answer-three elements of the scientific attitude
curiousity - Answer-desire to explore and understand without misleading or being
mislead, need evidence based on real observation
skepticism - Answer-doubting and questioning without judgement
humility - Answer-willing to put aside ones own ideas if evidence is to the contrary
critical thinkng - Answer-does not accept arguments and conclusions blindly, examines
assumptions, discerns hidden values, evaluates evidence and assesses conclusions
scientific method - Answer-used by psychologists to support their scientific attitude, self-
correcting process using observation and analysis to evaluate hypothesis (if-then
statement), hypothesis➪research/observation➪theory
theory - Answer-explanation using an integrated set of principles that organizes
observations and predicts behavior or events
hypothesis - Answer-testable prediction often implied by a theory to enable us to accept,
reject, or revise the theory
operational definition - Answer-carefully worded statement of the exact procedure used
in a research study, need to define constrictions of an experiment/hypothesis (how
much sleep is sleep deprived)
replication - Answer-repeating the experiment exactly as it was done the first time,
_____________ is confirmatin
, case studies, naturalistic observation, surveys/interviews - Answer-three descriptive
methods
case study - Answer-intense observational technique (descriptive and analysis) in which
one person or small group of individuals are studied in depth to reveal underlying
behavioral principles, descriptive method
clinical study - Answer-form of case study in which the therapist investigates the
problems associated with a client
strengths: allow for examination of rare behavior, provide a large amount of qualitative
data, suggest directions for further study
limitations: unusual case can be misleading, results from one case may not be
generalized for a larger group, doesn't determine cause and effect
naturalistic observation - Answer-observing and recording behavior in naturally
occurring situations without trying to manipulate/control the situation, descriptive method
strengths: subjects behave normally outside of a lab setting, data collection is
unobtrusive and doesn't disturb the subject
limitations: independent variable cannot be isolated, cannot determine case and effect,
observations by researches may be subjective
survey - Answer-technique for obtaining the self-reported attitudes, opinions, or
behaviors of people; usually done by questioning a representative random sample of
people, descriptive method
strengths: able to take a quick pulse of people's beliefs/behaviors/opinions, able to
include many cases
limitations: response bias, wording effects can skew the outcomes, acquiring a random
sample size is difficult, can't determine cause and effect
wording effect - Answer-wording of the question can change the results of the survey
false consensus effect - Answer-tendency to overestimate the extent to which others
share our beliefs and behaviors
cohert effect - Answer-having been born in a certain time, region, or period or having
experienced the same life experiences influences the development or perceptions of a
particular group
response bias - Answer-occurs when people give answers that they believe the
researches want to hear to purposefully distort the results of the study
nonresponse bias - Answer-occurs when people chosen for a survey select not to
provide feedback
population - Answer-consists of all individuals in a group being studied
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