Chapter 1

Psychologists in which subfield would be most interested in researching changes in human behavioral, emotional, and mental processes over time?​

Developmental psychology

Psychology is best defined as

the science of behavior and mental processes

Dr. Jamison is conducting a study examining the emotional and behavioral changes that occur during puberty. Dr. Jamison is especially interested in how these changes are associated with changes in hormones. The subfield of psychology Dr. Jamison is likely interested in is ____ psychology.​

Biological

In attempting to explain behavior, B. F. Skinner focused on ____.​

Environmental stimuli

Scientific psychology is empirical because it relies on information from ____.​

Experience and observation

Brad is having difficulty finding time to study. He goes to a counselor and they talk about Brad's perceptions of his study habits. The counselor emphasizes that it is Brad's decision about whether and when to study. She stresses that Brad is a resourceful person and will be able to solve his study problem. Brad's counselor isemphasizing the ____ approach to psychotherapy.​

Humanistic

A guest at a party says that the psychodynamic and behavioral approaches to psychology are quite similar. You disagree and say the behavioral approach stresses ____ while the psychodynamic model emphasizes ____.​

Overt behavior; unconsciously conflicts

Jami says to her therapist, Len, "I really want to understand myself better. That is why I am in therapy." Len replies, "Then we will have to start digging in your past and understanding all of the unconscious motives that cause you to be who you are." Len probably takes a(n) ____ approach to psychology.​

Psychodynamic

Which belief would a collectivist society support?​

Restraining one's self to be part of a social unit is good.

As a biological psychologist, Dr. Arztoften collaborates with his colleagues in the fields of genetics, computer science, and neurophysiology. These researchers from different disciplines all work within the larger field of ____.​

neuroscience

Functional analysis of behavior was developed by B.F. Skinner to understand how punishment and reward ____.​

shape and maintain behavior

William James believed the focus of research should be on how mental images, sensations, and memories come together as a function of experience. Before him, Titchener believed it was important to define the _____.​

structure of consciousness

Cognitive psychologists are primarily interested in

studying judgment, decision making, problem solving, and other aspects of human thought.

Wundt's approach to psychology is called structuralism because he stressed that ____.​

​all conscious experience is built up of complicated combinations of elemental sensations

The difference between a school psychologist and an educational psychologist is that a school psychologist

​is more directly involved with individual students