Psychology unit 1 test (ch.1 & 2)

Which of the following is not part of feminist psychology?

favoring women over men

Which psychological perspective focuses on bodily events and their effects on behavior, feelings, and thoughts?

Biological

Oona wants to conduct research on personnel management, workplace environment, and what type of environment results in high levels of employee productivity and efficiency. Oona should conduct research in the area of ________ psychology.

Industrial-organizational

Guillermo spends some time each day applying the principles of structuralism to examine his own conscious experience as carefully as possible. Guillermo is engaged in ____

Introspection

In looking at the area of multicultural psychology, what is the recognized deficit of this particular area of study?

It can describe what happens between cultures, but not explain why those differences occur.

Which of the following is a criticism of structuralism?

It was highly subjective

According to William James, the purpose of psychology was to ________.

Study the function of behavior in the world.

Behaviorism focuses on making psychology an objective science by

Studying overt behavior and deemphasizing the importance of unobservable mental processes.

In the study of personality, the ________ model includes different traits that are believed to underlie each individual's basic tendencies.

Five-Factor

Which kind of psychologists would be consulted in jury selection and witness preparation?

Forensic

A series of dots arranged in the shape of a face will be perceived as a face, not a series of dots. A psychologist studying this phenomenon is applying the principals of ________.

Gestalt Psychology

Which perspective within psychology emphasizes the potential for good that is innate to all humans?

Humanism

Which of the following is an example of research someone might conduct in the area of health psychology?

whether people working at a desk are more likely to be obese

Which of the following is a common requirement of a PhD across different schools and/or countries?

A dissertation

Which of the following exemplifies the unconditional positive regard component of client-centered therapy?

Abby tells her therapist that she tripped a small child who got in her way, and her therapist accepts this information without judgment.

Ashya wants to focus on the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and other problematic patterns of behavior. What area of psychology should she work in?

Clinical Psychology

Lucy wants to study changes in cognitive skills, moral reasoning, and social behavior across the lifespan. Lucy should specialize in ________ psychology.

Developmental

Which of the following exemplifies the empirical method?

Dr. Sarkeesian observes and records how watching cartoons influences heart rates.

The empirical method of study is based on_____.

Observation

In development psychology, there is an increasing interest in researching cognitive changes that occur later in life. Why?

Populations of developed nations are living longer

Which of the following choices refers to a broad explanation or group of explanations for some aspect of the natural world that is consistently supported by evidence over time?

Scientific Theory

_______ founded the field of psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

The first person to announce that he intended to make psychology a science was

Wilhelm Wundt

Which individual wrote Principle of Physiological Physiology and is credited with establishing a scientific laboratory of Psychology research and University of Leipzig?

Willhelm Wundt

Introspection refers to a process by which someone examines ________ as objectively as possible.

another person's consciousness

Psychology is defined as

the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

The ______ perspective of psychology focuses on the environmental rewards and punishes that maintain or discourage

behavioral

Penelope studies how the structure and function of the nervous system is related to behavior. She is a ________.

biosypchologists

Which of the following is an example of an objective measure used by functionalists?

examination of anatomy and physiology

For which concept is Abraham Maslow best known?

proposing a hierarchy of human needs in motivating behavior