AP TEST scientific foundations: research

Question 1

biopsychology

Answer 1

organic cause, brain biochemistry

Question 2

evolutionary perspective

Answer 2

darwin stuff

Question 3

psychodynamic

Answer 3

unconscious mind

Question 4

beavioral

Answer 4

what we can see and observe

Question 5

humanist

Answer 5

free will

Question 6

cognitive

Answer 6

how we think about ourselves and the world

Question 7

social-cultural

Answer 7

behavior is dictated by your culture

Question 8

nature vs nurture

Answer 8

how much of our thinking and behavior is due to biological influences and what role the environment plays

Question 9

stability vs change

Answer 9

how much of who we are and how we behave will change over our lifetime

Question 10

continuity vs stages

Answer 10

is development a continuos process or does it occur in distinct stages

Question 11

types of descriptive research

Answer 11

naturalistic, survey, case studies

Question 12

naturalistic observation

Answer 12

descriptive research method in involving the systematic study of animal or human natural settings

strengths: natural
weaknesses: cannot replicate, cannot generalize, observer bias

Question 13

case studies

Answer 13

study of a single individual or just a few individuals to describe the situation

strengths: advantage of non replicable situations, in depth understanding
weaknesses: observer bias, cannot generalize or replicate

Question 14

survey

Answer 14

quetionaries, interviews

strengths: generate information for low cost, overcomes false consensus effect, random sampling

Question 15

random sampling

Answer 15

sampling in which each potential population ember has an equal chance of being surveyed

Question 16

correlation research

Answer 16

research technique based on the naturally occurring relationship between two or more variables (do the two variables vary together?)

Question 17

ethics principles

Answer 17

informed consent; confidentiality; protection against physical/physiological harm; participants must be told after; research proposals must be screened by board

Question 18

operation definition

Answer 18

recipe so experiment can be repeated

Question 19

single blind

Answer 19

only participants is unaware of group they are in

Question 20

double blind

Answer 20

both participant and researcher is unaware of group they are in

Question 21

illusory correlation

Answer 21

perceiving a relationship where one does not exist.