Ch. 1 Quiz 1.4 Pscyhology's Past and Present: What a Long Strange Trip It's Been

The police have arrested a suspect in an assault case and the victim has agreed to look at a lineup to see if he can identify the person who attacked him. Gary, a police psychologist, is advising the detectives on the most accurate way to put together a lineup. What should he recommend that they use? a. sequential lineup b. segregated lineup c. subsequent lineup d. simultaneous lineup

a. sequential lineup

You meet a psychologist who tells you that she conducts research on children to determine how their cognitive processes differ as the child gets older. You recognize that this person is most likely a(n) _______ a. school psychologist b. developmental psychologist c. biological psychologist d. experimental psychologist

b. developmental psychologist

E.B Titchener was a leading figure in which framework of psychology, which advocated the use of introspection to indentify basic elements of experience? a. functionalism b. cognitivism c. structuralism d. psychoanalysis

c. structuralism

Just as behaviorism was gaining popularity in the US, Sigmund Freud was founding a new field of psychology, one that focused on internal psychological processes such as unconscious impulses, thoughts, and memories. This approach is called ________ a. structuralism b. functionalism c. cognitive psychology d. psychoanalysis

d. psychoanalysis

Evolutionary psychology has been criticized because _________. a. it favors determinism over free will b. evolution is just a theory c. its predictions are difficult to falsify d. researchers prefer newer psychological theories

c. its predictions are difficult to falsify