I wish you buckets of luck in studying for your upcoming exam. These sample questions should assist in your orientation to the test format for this course. If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

1. A psychologist whose interests lie in reasoning, problem solving, & memory is probably a
1. developmental psychologist
2. learning psychologist
3. social psychologist
4. cognitive psychologist
2. Which of the following terms does not belong with the other ones?
1. Repression
2. Unconscious
3. Free will
4. Psychoanalysis
3. The positive & negative feelings that you have about yourself are known as:
1. Self-image
2. Self-evaluation
3. Frame of reference
4. Self-actualization
4. A researcher looking for a way to improve children's math learning would most likely engage in what kind of research?
1. Basic
2. Applied
3. Pure
4. All of the above
5. The quantity of beer consumed by a student while studying for a test to be taken the very next day is probably ___________ correlated with the score the student earns on the test.
1. Positively
2. Negatively
3. Not
4. Minimally
6. Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of the case study method?
1. No control groups
2. Subjective interpretation of findings
3. Little or no control over variables
4. Can investigate unusual problems
7. When people tend to give socially desirable answers to survey questions, this is called
1. Gender bias
2. Courtesy bias
3. My-side bias
4. Observer bias
8. If a test measures what it purports to measure, it has
1. Reliability
2. Validity
3. Objectivity
4. None of the above

 

 Answers:

1. D; 2. C; 3. B; 4. B; 5. B; 6. D; 7. B; 8. B

 

And, as always: any materials presented on my web site are not intended to take the place of reading your textbook, coming to class, and studying your notes.J