What is Psychology?

Which student is NOT using an especially effective strategy for retaining information in their college courses?

Bakr, who types professors lectures verbatim into his laptop during class

Which student is NOT using an especially effective strategy for retaining information in their college course

Bakr, who types professors' lectures verbatim into his laptop during class

Owen is ask if he can identify a suspect in a lineup. He thinks his fear at the time of the crime may have impaired his memory for what the perpetrator looked like. The hypothesis would MOST likely be tested by a ____ psychologist

Cognitive

The process of weighing, synthesizing, and evaluating evidence is called ___ thinking

Critical

Mary often challenges of self to be aware of preconceptions and assumptions into engage in reflective thinking. Her friend sometimes accurately refer to her as a __ thinker

Critical thinker

Having a passion to explore and understand without misleading others or being mislead exemplifies a component of the scientific attitude called

Curiosity

____ psychology emphasized the ways our unconscious thought process and our emotional responses to childhood experiences affect our behavior.

Freudian

Which choice pairs a perspective during psychology's development with a phrase that accurately captures its emphasis?

HUMANISTIC - human growth potential

The theme of positive psychology approach is MOST reminiscent of the emphasis of the _____ perspective in psychology's history.

Humanistic

Dr. Preema has been hired to assess job satisfaction and work your productivity. Dr. Preema is most likely an __ psychologist

Industrial organization

A researcher is asking his participants to report elements of their experiences as they taste a new soda. Participants need to report their immediate sensations, images, and feelings. What is the researcher asking participants to take part in?

Introspection

John believes everything that his teacher tells him. He does not question anything and takes as absolute truth all that is talk to him. Based on this information, Josh would not make a good psychologist because he lacks a scientific attitude of

Skepticism

Professor chain contacts basically search to investigate whether he teaches negative perceptions of some students can affect the students' subsequent academic performance. Professor Chang is most likely a __ psychologist

Social

The idea that parental behaviors determine a child's sexual orientation may seem plausible to you, while the idea that your future can be predicted on the basis of the positions of the planets at your birth may not. However, both ideas should be _____ using _____ to see if they hold up under scrutiny.

Tested; an empirical approach

What relationship between the humanist approach and the Freudian

The humanist approach challenged the Freudian view

Critical thinking has allowed psychologists to support the notion that

an electric shock delivered to the brain can relieve severe depression

The growth potential of healthy people was emphasized by

humanistic psychology

Is there life after death? Can some people demonstrate ESP? And important difference between these two questions is that the first is probably beyond science, whereas the second can be tested by using?

An Empirical Approach

Dr. Tyler is a clinical psychologist who prescribed drugs such as volume and Xanax the trees patience anxiety. Dr. Tyler and adheres to the ___ perspective in psychology.

Neuroscience

Dr. Williamson is working with the national Institute of mental health to determine the omega-3 fatty acids have beneficial effects on mood and anxiety disorders. Which perspective in contemporary psychology does Dr. Williamson research best reflect?

Neuroscience

Martin Seligman's interest in human flourishing sparked an approach known as

Positive Psychology

Manny has recently diagnosed with schizophrenia. The therapeutic approach used in his outpatient treatment facility aims to help many flourish rather than merely to alleviate his systems. Manny therapy reflects a psychological respective called the ___ approach

Positive psychology

In 1879, ___ opened the first psychological

Wilhelm Wundt

It is the year 2029. At the American Psychological Association's annual conference, a special keynote address commemorates the 150th anniversary of an historic event in psychology's early days. Which of the following is the event celebrated in the address?

Wilhelm Wundt founding the first psychology laboratory

Psychologist for today's focus on the adaptive functions of behaviors and emotions (that is, those who study hall behaviors and emotions appear to have helped their ancestors to survive) would likely consider __ an early representation of their approach to psychology

William James