AP Psychology UNIT 1 Practice Test 2025 (Scientific Foundations of Psychology)

Dr. Didden was hired by the TLC Company to help it retain its employees without lowering the firm’s profits. After TLC removed cubicles and permitted employees to decorate their workroom as recommended by Dr. Didden, the absentee rate declined and no employees left for jobs elsewhere. Dr. Didden is most likely to be

Which psychological approach is most concerned with the importance of encoding, storing, and retrieving information?

If Aristotle and Locke, who both believed that what we know is acquired from experience, were alive today, they would best agree with the

The question, “Is intelligence more influenced by heredity or experience?” deals with a big issue in psychology known as

With which definition of psychology would John Watson and B. F. Skinner most agree?

Wilhelm Wundt and the structuralists studied questions still asked today primarily by

A therapist who says that she uses whatever psychological perspective “works best” for each patient might be best described as

Behaviorists explain human thought and behavior as a result of

Symbolic dream analysis might be an important research technique to a psychologist from which of the following perspectives?

Which of the following psychologists might have described himself as a humanist?

B. F. Skinner introduced the idea of __________ to the paradigm of behaviorism.

John Watson relied on the pioneering work of __________ in establishing behaviorism as a paradigm of psychology

Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory has been criticized for being

Which of the following concepts is most integral to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory?

Which of the following psychologists was part of the Gestalt group of psychologists?

The research methodology Wilhelm Wundt used is called

Dr. Marco explains to a client that his feelings of hostility toward a coworker are most likely caused by the way the client interprets the coworker’s actions and the way he thinks that people should behave at work. Dr. Marco is most likely working from what perspective?

In what way might a behaviorist disagree with a cognitive psychologist about the cause of aggression?

Sigmund Freud’s theory of the unconscious mind

You are at a lecture about the history of psychology and the speaker states that Wilhelm Wundt’s theory of structuralism was the first scientific psychological theory. On what historical fact might the speaker be basing her or his argument?

With which of the following statements would John B. Watson most likely agree?

Which of the following best describes research typical of Wilhelm Wundt’s first psychology laboratory?

Who coined the term “tabula rasa” (blank slate) to help explain the impact experience has on shaping an individual?

Which philosopher proposed that nerve pathways allowed for reflexes?

By seeking to measure “atoms of the mind,” who established the first psychology laboratory?

Charlotte, a nursery school student, hypothesizes that boys have fights with the finger paints more than girls do. She tests her hypothesis by casually watching the finger-painting table for three days of nursery school. What method is she using?

Ms. Costas owns a business with nine other employees. Ms. Costas’s annual salary is $90,000. Her manager’s salary is $60,000. Of her other employees, three earn $25,000 each and five earn $15,000 each.

The frequency polygon for this distribution resembles a

Ms. Costas owns a business with nine other employees. Ms. Costas’s annual salary is $90,000. Her manager’s salary is $60,000. Of her other employees, three earn $25,000 each and five earn $15,000 each.

The range of this distribution is

Of the following, which can establish a cause and effect relationship?

I. controlled experiment
II. quasi-experiment
III. correlational research

John wants to study the effects of alcohol on the behavior of college students. For his study, he spends 5 hours every night for 2 weeks at a bar near a college watching how the patrons act before and after drinking alcoholic beverages. The research method John is employing is a

Of the following, the strongest positive correlation would most likely be shown between

Of the following, which research method is most effective for studying unusually complex or rare phenomena?

One method to eliminate the wincing of the experimenter is by instituting

The wincing of the experimenter must be eliminated because it is

A quasi-experiment cannot be considered a controlled experiment because

Organized sets of concepts that explain phenomena are

Students will be able to read a statement printed in the Comic Sans font faster than the same statement written in the Lucida Calligraphy font.

 
This statement is a(n)

Students will be able to read a statement printed in the Comic Sans font faster than the same statement written in the Lucida Calligraphy font.

 
The dependent variable in an experiment based on the statement would be

Which of the following hypotheses would be most difficult to test experimentally?

One of the principal differences between the ethical guidelines for human and animal research is: