UBCx: PSYC.

1x AP® Psychology 1

Part 1: What Is Psychology – Quiz answers

1. When someone introduces themselves as a psychologist, they may get the standard “Don’t analyze me” or
“tell me what’s wrong with my Uncle.” These are uninformed statements that are probably motivated by
people’s stereotypical knowledge of this psychology sub-discipline.

Correct Response: clinical

2. The top three places where individuals with doctorates in psychology tend to be employed are:

Correct Response: universities/colleges, hospitals or health services, and government-based medical

centers

3. The “science” of phrenology posited that there is a clear relationship between:

Correct Response: brain structure and personality

4. The most pointed reason that the confirmation bias is particularly problematic for science is because it can:

Correct Response: blind us to truths that we do not yet see or appreciate

5. Which of the following sounds most like Descartes’ idea of dualism?

Correct Response: The mind and the brain are two materially separate entities

6. The field of epigenetics suggests that changes in your phenotype occur because of:

Correct Response: environmental interactions

7. Which of the following studying techniques is probably the weakest in terms of successful retrieval later down
the line?

Correct Response: reading your notes repeatedly

8. Which of the following is true regarding studying?

Correct Response: In many cases, students are often poor at assessing how well they know something

9. Before becoming a recognized academic discipline, psychology was primarily the domain of:

Correct Response: philosophy

10. Psyche is a Greek word meaning:

Correct Response: soul

11. Which of the following is the weakest reason that one might study psychology?

Correct Response: Psychology only involves introspection

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12. According to the scientific method, a hypothesis is a(n):

Correct Response: proposed explanation

13. Scientists have been critical of introspection because:

Correct Response: even trained introspectors lacked consistency across reports of the same focus of
study

14. A psychoanalytic theorist would most likely attribute the presence of schizophrenia in an individual to which
of the following?

Correct Response: negative contents in the unconscious that have not been properly resolved

15. Which of the following ideas associated with Behaviorism is false?

Correct Response: Behaviorism contributed absolutely nothing to modern-day psychology

16. _______ is best known for proposing a hierarchy of human needs.

Correct Response: Abraham Maslow

17. Which of the following is true regarding cognitive psychology and developmental psychology?

Correct Response: It is possible to examine constructs in cognitive psychology (e.g., memory) through a
developmental perspective

18. Social psychologists are primarily concerned with studying:

Correct Response: how the thoughts, feelings and behaviors of individuals are affected by others

19. A researcher interested in the factors that would make an employee most suited for a given job would most
likely identify as this type of psychologist:

Correct Response: industrial-organizational

20. This clinical psychology-based program placed less emphasis on research and more emphasis on developing
therapeutic skills with clients.

Correct Response: Psy.D.