AP Psychology Midterm Measure of Growth

Quentin has been monitoring what his siblings do when his parents yell at them, and how their actions change. His approach is most in line with what school of psychological thought?

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Psychoanalytical

• Humanistic

• Structuralist

Theoretically today many people pull from multiple fields in order to support their comprehensive view of how to treat a client. Which view would probably be used to do this?

• Structuralist

• Functionalist

• Biopsychosocial

• Psychoanalytical

• Developmental

George sees his clients for a brief period of time, and mostly concentrates his questions on how their medication is working so he can find out if he should issue them a new scrip or change the milligram dosage he has prescribed. George is most likely a:

• personality psychologist

• clinical psychologist

• psychometrician

• psychiatrist

• industrial-organizational psychologist

Julian believes that everything we do was determined with our personality that we were born with. Thanos believes that we are the sum product of our life experiences. The basic conflict that sums the difference between these two perspectives is:

• nature vs. nurture

• freedom vs. determinism

• dualism vs. monism

• structuralism vs. functionalism

• simplicity vs. difficulty

Brielle is working to increase the productivity of employees during the holiday season at the retail store she is employed by. She is most likely what type of psychologist?

• counseling

• clinical

• psychoanalytic

• humanistic

• industrial-organizational

Which of the following correctly describes how to randomly select a representative high school population?

• picking every fifth person with a high gpa from schools that are located in southern states

• selecting every other person from every student in multiple high schools around the country

• selecting 50 people from every school in the country with staff input

• selecting 5 students from every middle, elementary and high school through drawing straws

• selecting six students and staff from a lottery system at schools nationwide

Which scatterplot shows the strongest negative relationship between the variables?

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The child who says “milk gone” is engaging in ____________. This type of utterance demonstrates that children are actively experimenting with the rules of ____________.

• Babbling; syntax
• Telegraphic speech; syntax
• Babbling; semantics
• Telegraphic speech; semantics

In the words “helped” and “called,” the “ed” ending is a(n)

• prototype.
• morpheme.
  
• syntax.
  
• algorithm.
  

Which structural component of language is the smallest unit of distinctive sound?

• Phoneme

• Morpheme

• Semantics

• Syntax