Barrons AP Psychology 7th edition

techniques. A psychoanalytic psychologist might explain that an introverted person avoids social situatio ...

particularly difficult. Two widely used individual tests of intelligence are the Stanford-Binet and ...

cultures. They emphasize the influence culture has on the way we think and act. A soc ...

Figure 11.1. The normal distribution on an IQ test. Whereas the Stanford-Binet IQ test utilizes a variety of ...

PRACTICE QUESTIONS Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five su ...

NATURE VERSUS NURTURE: INTELLIGENCE One of the most difficult and controversial issues in psychology involves ...

think about aggressive behavior. (E) A behaviorist would not disagree with a cognitive psychologist about ...

mind that differences within groups generally dwarf differences between groups. In other words, within any one g ...

9. Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory has been criticized for being (A) appropriate for female patients, but not ma ...

PRACTICE QUESTIONS Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five su ...

(C) natural selections. (D) biological processes. (E) individual choice. A therapist who says that she uses what ...

(D) split-half reliability. (E) criterion validity. 6. Astor scores at the 84th percentile on the WISC. Which n ...

Methods KEY TERMS Hindsight bias Applied research Basic research Hypothesis Independent variable Dependent variable The ...

(B) complete college. (C) find jobs well suited to their individual strengths. (D) be creative problem solv ...

z score Normal curve Correlation coefficient Scatter plot Line of best fit/regression line Inferential statistics Sam ...

Abnormal Psychology KEY TERMS Insane DSM Anxiety disorders Specific phobia Agoraphobia Social anxiety disorder Generalize ...

Hypotheses often grow out of theories. A theory aims to explain some phenomenon and allows rese ...

Paraphilia or psychosexual disorder Anorexia nervosa Bulimia Autism spectrum disorder Attention-deficit/hyperactivit ...

Even if I randomly select a sample of 100 people from the school’s population of 1,000, clearly the samp ...

disorder. To do so, psychologists use a book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( ...