Psychology Quiz

Mark believes that people are genetically predisposed to dislike bitter-tasting foods because this has enhanced human survival.

Evolutionary.

Aristotle and Locke affirmed the importance of?

Experience.

The letter B and the number 13 might appear to be very similar; In fact, the only real difference between them is the space between the left and right sides of each figure. Who would be most likely to describe the difference as being caused by the context of the letters or numbers that come before and after the image?

Max, who is a Gestalt psychologist.

Professor McClure believes that young children are frequently able to make morally correct decisions because humans are endowed with an inborn knowledge of basic ethical principles.

Plato.

Contemporary psychology is best defined as the scientific study of?

Behavior and mental processes.

The perspective that investigates between environmental stimuli and observable responses?

Behaviorism.

Professor Lopez believes that severe depression results primarily from an imbalanced diet and abnormal brain chemistry. Professor Lopez favors a ________ perspective on depression.

Biological.

Which approach is most directly concerned with assessing the relative impact of both natural and psychological traits?

Biopsychosocial.

Functionalists were interested in the role of _____ in dealing with the problems with everyday life.

Consciousness.

The self-reflective observation of one's own sensations and feelings is called?

Introspection.

Jake has had a troubled past. He had a difficult time getting along with his parents as a child and today he still holds much hostility towards his parents. He thinks he might be holding a longstanding grudge against them, but he cannot remember what it is. What field of psychology would be most interested in getting to the root of Jake's troubled childhood?

Psychodynamic.

Ross is a psychologist, whereas Rachel is a psychiatrist. Thus which of the following is MOST likely to be true?

Rachel has earned a Ph.D.

Ted is seeing a humanistic psychologist for therapy. What his psychologist is most likely to focus on?

Striving for growth and developing potential.

Wilhelm Wundt's student, Edward Titchener, developed an approach in which the mind is broken into the smallest elements of mental experience. What was this called?

Structuralism.

Functionalism was a school of psychology that focused attention on the?

The adaptive value of conscious thought and the purpose of the mind.