Ap psych Unit Zero (Questions)

A student fails an exam and says, “The teacher just writes terrible tests,” instead of admitting they didn’t study. Which defense mechanism best describes this?

Rationalization

According to Freud, which part of personality operates according to the pleasure principle?

ID

A Psychologist defines “academic achievement” as a student’s GPA. The psychologist has created a(n):

Operational definition

Researchers observe how teenagers behave at a shopping mall without interacting with them. This is:

Naturalistic observation

Researchers quietly observe how teenagers behave at a shopping mall without interacting with them. This is:

Naturalistic observation

Researchers discover that students who sleep more tend to have higher GPAs. What can they conculde?

Sleep and GPA are correlated

Which correlation represents the strongest relationship?

-0.81

A researcher manipulates the number of hours participants sleep and measures their memory-test scores. What is the IV?

Hours of sleep

In the same experiment, was is the DV?

Memory-test score

What is the primary purpose of random assignment?

Place participants into groups by chance

A researcher gives half the participants a real medication and half a sugar pill. The sugar pill is the:

Placebo

Neither the participants nor the researchers interacting with them know who received the actual medication. This is:

Double-blind experiment

A psychologist studies the same 100 people from age 10 until age 60. This is a:

Longitudinal study

Which measure represents the most frequently occuring value?

Mode

What does standard deviation tell researchers?

How spread out scores are

After hearing that a candidate won an election, someone says, “I knew they would win the whole time.” This demonstrates:

Hindsight bias

A researcher surveys only AP Psychology students and uses their responses to make conclusions about all American teenagers. What is the biggest problem?

Sampling bias

Which statement best describes correlation?

Correlation measures the relationship between variables

A researcher believes people who wear red are more aggressive and notices every aggressive person wearing red while ignoring all other cases. This could contribute to:

Love and belonging

Which defense mechanism involves attributing your own unacceptable toughts or feelings to another person?

Projection