General Psychology, Unit 1
Professor Brody attempts to measure the relative contributions of inborn traits and social influences on sexual preferences and behavior patterns. Her research efforts best illustrate the interests of the ________ perspective.
Behavior genetics
The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies observable human activity without reference to mental processes is known as
Behaviorism
Which psychological perspective is most likely to be concerned with identifying the powers and the limits of human reasoning?
Cognitive
Dr. Santaniello conducts research on how children's moral thinking changes as they grow older. It is most likely that Dr. Santaniello is a(n) ________ psychologist.
Developmental
The risk of being color deficient is greater for men than for women. This best illustrates an important
Gender difference
Professor Lopez believes that severe depression results primarily from an imbalanced diet and abnormal brain chemistry. Professor Lopez favors a ________ perspective on depression.
Neuroscience
In the context of debates over the origins of psychological traits, nature is to nurture as
Plato is to Aristotle.
Discovering and promoting human strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive is the major focus of
positive psychology.
Mrs. Alfieri believes that her husband's angry outbursts against her result from his unconscious hatred of his own mother. Mrs. Alfieri is looking at her husband's behavior from a(n) ________ perspective.
psychodynamic
Dr. Mills conducts research on why individuals conform to the behaviors and opinions of others. Which specialty area does his research best represent?
social psychology
Functionalism was a school of psychology that focused attention on the
adaptive value of thoughts and behaviors.
Investigating patterns of brain activity that accompany people's recollections of a stressful experience would be of most direct interest to the specialty area known as
cognitive neuroscience.
Critical thinking most clearly involves
evaluating evidence
Psychological differences between the genders are
far outweighed by gender similarities
Cognitive neuroscience studies relationships between
thought processes and brain functions.