Ap Psychology Quiz

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Who was the American philosopher who authored a textbook in 1890 for the emerging discipline of psychology?
D. “William James was a legendary teacher-writer who authored an important 1890 psychology text”.(P. 5)
6. The personality theorist, Sigmund Freud, was an Austrian
B. According to online sources such as Guide Top Psychology and The Atlantic, Sigmund Freud was a physician and professor of medicine, developed his theories about psychoanalysis while studying hysteria and compulsion neurosis.
8. Contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of
C. According to an online source called Simple psychology, contemporary psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
9. The inheritance of behavioral characteristics …show more content…

“Trivia Day” in Google Slides. From the last 10 questions, it was the sixth one.
41. To minimize the extent to which outcome differences between experimental and control conditions can be attributed to placebo effects, researchers make use of
C. Since placebo effects are considered as assignments, by randomly assigning the experiements, it “minimizes the preexisting differences between the two groups”.(P.51)
43. Participants in an experiment are said to be blind if they are uninformed about
D. Which experimental treatment, if any, they are receiving because, since the participants know that the experimentor(s) want(s) data from him/her. He/she should know what is being applied to him/her. If they don’t, then it creates unawareness.
46. For which of the following distributions of scores would the median most clearly be a more appropriate measure of central tendency than the mean?
B. By putting the numbers in numerical order, we can see that there is an odd number, the median would be the middle number, which is 9. BBC was the source used to find this answer.
48. Which of the following generalizations about culture and gender is most correct?
A. “Our shared biological heritage unites us as a universal human family. The same underlying processes guide people