PY 101 Chapter 1

What is a mainstream psychologist most likely to think about Freud

His theory is untestable

How is natural selection related to psychology

Humans behave as they do in part because that behavior promotes survival

Which of the following statements is true?

Skepticism is advisable until an idea is proven right

Parents who agree with John Locke's notion of tabula rasa would mean

parents would expose their children to a rich variety of sensory experiences

Plato's allegory of the cave indicates that

truths about reality are not always obvious

A researcher presents his participant with a series of flashing lights at varying intervals. After each presentation of light, he asks the particiant to fully describe her internal experiences, a method known

introspection.

An important principle to remember when studying psychology is that

the act of learning changes the physical structure of the brain.

Edward Thict

Structuralism

The year 1879 might be thought of as the beginning of psychology as a science because that is the year

Wilhelm Wundt developed and opened the first psychology laboratory

The hallmarks of psychology as a science are

Careful experimentation and the application of critical thinking

Cognitive psychology

focuses on how people think,, remeber, store, and use information

Following perspectives argues that human behvior

functionalism

The study of the nervous system is called

neuroscience

Psychology is best defined as the study of

the mind and behvior

According to the social brain hypothesis each of us can deal effectively with social interactions with roughly 150 people. This implies that

we are capable of maintaining social networks of up to 150 people throughout our lives.