PSY Exam # 1 Intro to PSY

Introspection

Behaviorists dismissed the value of

Learning and adaption

By suggesting that nurture works on what nature endows, psychologists highlight the fact that we are biologically endowed with a capacity for

positive psychology

Discovering and promoting human strengths and virtues that help individuals and communities to thrive is the major focus of

social psychology

Dr. Mills conducts research on why individuals conform to the behaviors and opinions of others. Which specialty area does his research best represent?

councling psychology

Dr. Vazquez helps people to make career choices by assisting them in identifying their strengths and interests. Dr. Vazquez is most likely a

clinical psychology

For no apparent reason, Adam has recently begun to feel so tense and anxious that he frequently stays home from work. It would be best for Adam to contact a ________ psychologist.

Blood chemistry

The neuroscience perspective in psychology would be most likely to emphasize that behavior is influenced by

Memory, intelligence, perception, problem solving and learning

The cognitive perspective in psychology focuses on how

Structuralism

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 principles of the which school of thought?

Behavioral and mental health issues

Clinical psychologists specialize in

the science of behavior and mental processes

Contemporary psychology is best defined as the science of

Adaptive values of conscious thoughts and emotions

Functionalism was a school of psychology that focused attention on the

behavior and mental processes

In the 1960s, the cognitive revolution in psychology involved a renewal of interest in the scientific study of

psychodynamic

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.

Nature and nature

Plato's assumption that certain ideas are inborn is most directly relevant to the controversy regarding

Culture

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.

Introspection

Research participants were asked to monitor and report their own immediate sensory reactions to differently colored objects. This research involved a technique known as:

Natural selection

The survival of organisms best suited to a particular environment is known as

Behaviorism

The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies observable human activity without reference to mental processes is known as

congnitive

Which perspective is most concerned with how individuals interpret their experiences?

behavior genetics

Which perspective studies the relative contributions of our genes and our environment on our individual differences?

Social culture

Which perspective would focus on the extent to which different parenting styles are encouraged among various ethnic groups?

developmental psychology

Which psychologists are MOST likely to be involved in applied research?

Descartes

Which seventeenth-century European philosopher believed that some ideas are innate?

Functionalist/Functionalism

William James was a prominent American