AP Psychology Chapter 1 Practice Test

Get ready for your AP Psychology exam with this comprehensive practice test focusing on Chapter 1. This quiz is designed to enhance your preparation and pinpoint areas that may need more practice. Perfect for students taking the college-level AP Psychology course, this test offers multiple-choice questions to help you review and improve.

Edited by Me.bot Editorial Team Questions: 35 October 1, 2024

Character Test

1. 'I am primarily interested in thinking processes; I am a __________ psychologist.'

Cognitive

Humanistic

Behavioral

2. Like Carl Rogers, I believe people choose to live more creative and meaningful lives. My name is

Maslow

Wertheimer

Skinner

3. Of the following, who is associated with the Gestalt school of psychology?

Max Wertheimer

Ivan Pavlov

John Watson

4. Of the following, who is a humanistic psychologist?

Abraham Maslow

Sigmund Freud

B. F. Skinner

5. According to John Watson, introspection was

Unscientific

A valid method of research

The cornerstone of behaviorism

6. Which of the following psychological theories is known as the one that emphasizes 'free will'?

Humanistic psychology

Psychodynamic psychology

Behaviorism

7. Brain mechanisms involved in hunger and thirst would most likely be studied by a

Biopsychologist

Sensory psychologist

Personality theorist

8. 'The whole is greater than the sum of its parts' is represented by which of the following?

The Gestalt psychologists

The behaviorists

The functionalists

9. The goals of psychology are to

Describe, predict, understand, and control behavior

Develop effective methods of psychotherapy

Explain the functioning of the human mind

10. Freud believed that all thoughts and actions are determined by

Forces in the personality that are often unconscious

The first year of life

Needs for love and self-esteem

11. Barbara is applying conditioning principles to teach language skills to specially-abled children. As a psychologist, her point of view appears to be

Behaviorist

Freudian

Functionalist

12. A psychologist who is 'eclectic' can best be described as

Drawing from many psychological approaches

Cognitive rather than behavioral

Rejecting determinism in favor of free will

13. Maslow proposed a need to develop one's potential and be the best one can be, which he called

Self-actualization

Self-esteem

Self-image

14. Psychology is

The scientific study of behavior and mental processes of any living creature

The study of human origins, evolution, and cultures

A natural science integrating physiology and neurology

15. Of the following, who was a structuralist?

Wilhelm Wundt

B. F. Skinner

John Watson

16. The structuralist school of psychology

used introspection to analyze conscious experience

Relied heavily on the concept of natural selection

Was concerned with experiences as 'wholes'

17. Who among the following can prescribe drugs to treat emotional problems?

Psychiatrist

Psychologist

Social worker

18. William James wrote Principles of Psychology and founded

Functionalism

Structuralism

Behaviorism

19. A psychologist using the method of naturalistic observation would

Observe behavior as it happens outside the laboratory or clinic

Carefully design controlled situations in which to observe behavior

Rely on observations of subjects' responses to questionnaires

20. In a study of effects of alcohol on driving ability, the control group should be given

no alcohol at all

One-half the dosage given the experimental group

A driving test before and after drinking alcohol

21. A scientific explanation that remains tentative until it has been adequately tested is called a(n)

Hypothesis

Theory

Law

22. A study to determine the degree of relationship between two events is called

The correlational method

Naturalistic observation

A controlled experiment

23. In an experiment to find out if taking ginseng increases IQ scores, the IQ scores would be

The dependent variable

The independent variable

A control variable

24. Subjects are said to be assigned randomly when

They each have an equal chance of being assigned to either the experimental or control group.

They are assigned to experimental and control groups from a sample which is representative of the larger population.

They are assigned to experimental and control groups so that the groups differ on some critical variable before the experiment begins.

25. An experiment is performed to see if background music improves learning. Two groups study the same material, one while listening to music and another without music. The independent variable is

Music

Learning

The size of the group

26. Which of the following coefficients of correlation indicates the strongest relationship between two sets of variables?

-0.98

0.90

0.00

27. The most powerful research tool is a (an)

Experiment

Clinical study

Survey

28. Students who do better in high school tend to do better in college. This is an example of

A positive correlation

A negative correlation

A zero correlation

29. Which of the following best describes a double-blind experimental procedure?

Half the subjects get the experimental procedure, half the placebo; which they receive is not known to subjects or experimenters.

Half the subjects get the experimental procedure, half the placebo; which they receive is known only to the experimenter

All subjects get the experimental procedure.

30. A set of exact procedures that represent particular variables is called a(n)

Operational definition

Abstract definition

Case study

31. Giving placebos in drug experiments is necessary to

Control for the effects of suggestion and expectation

Counteract the random assignment of subjects

Counteract the side effects of the drug

32. The effects of brain injury on personality would usually be investigated by the use of the

Case study method

Experimental method

Naturalistic observation method

33. An educated guess about what is controlling some behavior is called

A hypothesis

Experimental control

An experimental variable

34. Responding to a substance like a sugar pill as if it were a drug is called

The placebo effect

An extraneous factor

Variability

35. The control group and the experimental group in an experiment are treated exactly the same except for the

Independent variable

Dependent variable

Extraneous variables

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