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AP Psychology Study Guide Research Methods Directions: Answer The Following Questions in Preparation For Your Unit Test. The Completed

This document is an AP Psychology study guide for the unit on research methods. It provides students with questions to answer in preparation for their upcoming unit test. The study guide covers key topics in research methods including defining psychology, describing the scientific method and its importance in psychology, defining important terms, describing different types of research designs and their strengths and limitations, explaining correlation coefficients and measures of central tendency and variability, outlining ethical guidelines for research, and describing major perspectives in modern psychology. Students are instructed to hand write their answers in complete sentences in their journal and staple the completed study guide to their test packet when turning it in on the scheduled test date.

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AP Psychology Study Guide Research Methods Directions: Answer The Following Questions in Preparation For Your Unit Test. The Completed

This document is an AP Psychology study guide for the unit on research methods. It provides students with questions to answer in preparation for their upcoming unit test. The study guide covers key topics in research methods including defining psychology, describing the scientific method and its importance in psychology, defining important terms, describing different types of research designs and their strengths and limitations, explaining correlation coefficients and measures of central tendency and variability, outlining ethical guidelines for research, and describing major perspectives in modern psychology. Students are instructed to hand write their answers in complete sentences in their journal and staple the completed study guide to their test packet when turning it in on the scheduled test date.

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Name: ____________________

Date: ____________________
AP Psychology Study Guide
Research Methods
Directions: Answer the following questions in preparation for your unit test. The completed
study guide will count as three homework grades. It is due the day of your unit exam.
Your study guide should be hand written in your journal.
Your answers should be written in complete sentences.
All questions should be answered in your own words.
A copy of this study guide must be stapled to the front of your packet when you turn it in.
Research Methods Test Date: _________________________
1. Define psychology.
2. Describe the scientific method. Explain why is it necessary to study psychology using the scientific
method.
3. Term identification: In your own words, define the following terms and provide a
vivid/memorable example for each:
a. Operational definition
k. Random assignment
b. Independent variable
l. Blind procedure
c. Dependent variable
m. Double-blind procedure
d. Experimental condition
n. Placebo
e. Control condition
o. Placebo effect
f. Experimental group
p. Confounding variable
g. Control group
q. Experimenter bias
h. Population
r. Participant bias
i. Sample
j. Random sample
4. Describe the following types of research psychologists use to study human behavior, and explain the
potential strengths and limitations of each:
a. Experimental
b. Descriptive - Identify strengths/weaknesses specifically for case study, naturalistic
observation, & survey, as well as for the descriptive methods as a whole
c. Correlational explain the connection between descriptive & correlational research
5. Describe correlation coefficients. Include the possible range of values, and what negative and
positive correlations indicate about the relationship (strength and direction) between two
variables.
6. Define the three measures of central tendency. Explain why these calculations are called
measures of central tendency.
7. Define the two measures of variability. Explain why these calculations are called measures of
variability.
8. What ethical guidelines must be met when conducting research on human subjects?
9. Describe the perspectives that guide modern psychology:
a. Biological
e. Psychodynamic
b. Behavioral
f. Sociocultural
c. Cognitive
g. Evolutionary
d. Humanistic

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