Name: ______________________________
Instructor: Randy Schultz
General Psychology Practice Quiz
Unit 1: Chapters 1 and 8 (p. 310)
1. When Leanne heard about experimental evidence that orange juice consumption triggers
hyperactivity in children, she questioned whether the tested children had been randomly
assigned to experimental conditions. Leanne's reaction best illustrates:
A) an operational definition.
B) the hindsight bias.
C) critical thinking.
D) a meta-analysis.
2. Hsao-Wei was sent to the school psychologist to be tested. Based on her IQ score, she
was placed in a program for gifted children. This is an example of which goal of
psychology?
A) describing behavior
B) explaining behavior
C) predicting behavior
D) changing behavior
3. Dr. Winkle conducts research on the systematic changes in intelligence associated with
aging. It is most likely that Dr. Winkle is a(n) ________ psychologist.
A) developmental
B) social
C) counseling
D) industrial/organizational
4. As a manager, you are exploring psychology because you want to help your company
run more productively, and assist your employer in improving relationships between
employees and her supervisors. Which of the following careers would BEST help you
achieve this goal?
A) social psychologist
B) counseling psychologist
C) industrial/organizational psychologist
D) clinical psychologist
5. The school psychologist feels that Skylar's romantic feelings for her physics teacher
reflect her unconscious longings for attention from her own father. The counselor's
assessment most clearly reflects a(n) ________ perspective.
A) behavioral
B) evolutionary
C) psychodynamic
D) humanistic
6. Dr. Wilson attributes the delinquent behaviors of many teens to the pressures associated
with being members of street gangs. Her belief best illustrates a(n) ________
perspective.
A) psychodynamic
B) sociocultural
C) neuroscience
D) evolutionary
7. In her reserach study, Professor Delano predicts that handsome men will be more
successful than average-looking men in securing employment. The professor's
prediction regarding employment success exemplifies:
A) a theory.
B) an independent variable.
C) a hypothesis.
D) an operational definition.
8. Professor Saxton was very skeptical about the findings of a recently reported experiment
on the effects of sleep deprivation. Which process would best enable her to assess the
reliability of these findings?
A) naturalistic observation
B) replication
C) random sampling
D) random assignment
9. If researchers gave participants varying amounts of a new “memory” drug and then gave
them a story to read and measured their scores on a quiz, the ________ would be the
independent variable (IV), and the ________ would be the dependent variable (DV).
A) response to the drug; amount of the drug
B) experimental group; control group
C) amount of the drug; quiz scores
D) the participants; the quiz
10. In a drug-study to test the effectiveness of a new drug for treating the common cold, you
are randomly assigned to a group that gets the drug. This means that you ________.
A) are in the control group
B) are in the experimental group
C) are in the placebo group
D) will not receive the independent variable
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11. As you walk into your Introductory Psychology class, your teacher flips a coin to
determine whether you should be in Group A or Group B for her in-class experiment.
This procedure is called ________.
A) random sampling
B) operational definition
C) matching
D) random assignment
12. Maria is thinking of running for student body president, but she wonders whether her
campaign should emphasize campus security, improved parking facilities, or increased
health services. Which scientific method of research would you recommend she use to
determine the focus of her campaign?
A) a survey
B) naturalistic observation
C) an experiment
D) a case study
13. Salary and years of education are ________ correlated, and grade point average and the
number of hours of television watched per day are ________ correlated.
A) not; positively
B) negatively; positively
C) positively; not
D) positively, negatively
14. Active reading includes which of the following?
A) reading each chapter at least 10 times
B) highlighting as much material as you can when you read
C) surveying a chapter before reading it by noting the outline headings and learning
outcomes
D) all of these options
15. Your psychology professor has announced that the next test will assess your
understanding of sensation and perception. When you receive the test, however, you
find that very few questions actually relate to these topics. In this instance, you would
be most concerned about the ________ of the test.
A) reliability
B) standardization
C) validity
D) normal distribution
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Unit 1 Quiz Answer Key
1. C
critical thinking.
2. C
predicting behavior
3. A
developmental
4. C
industrial/organizational psychologist
5. C
psychodynamic
6. B
sociocultural
7. C
a hypothesis.
8. B
replication
9. C
amount of the drug; quiz scores
10. B
are in the experimental group
11. D
random assignment
12. A
a survey
13. D
positively, negatively
14. C
surveying a chapter before reading it by noting the outline headings and learning
outcomes
15. C
validity
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