PSYCHOLOGY FINAL Ch 1-4, 12-14
Correlations allow us to determine causality. T or F
FALSE
psychoanlysis is the name of the theory of personality developed by sigmund freud T or F
FALSE
structuralists emphasized the tendancy to organize perceptions into wholes and to integrate seperate stimuli into meaningful patterns T or F
FALSE
__________ psychologists are particularly concerned with issues related to the design of self-driving vehicles.
Human factors
_______ is credited with establishing the first psychological laboratory in Leipzig, Germany.
William Wundt
__________ is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
psychology
As opposed to a dependent variable, an independent variable is manipulated by the experimenters so that its effects may be determined. T or F
TRUE
psychology seeks to describe, explain and control behavior and mental processes T or F
TRUE
One of the advantages of __________ is that by distributing questionnaires and analyzing answers with a computer, psychologists can study many thousands of people at a time.
surveys
_______ is the founder of Behaviorism.
John B. Watson
When you are training a pet, you are most likely relying on which of the following psychological perspectives?
behaviorist
The _______ perspective works on the assumption that thoughts, fantasies, and dreams—and the inborn or instinctive behavior patterns of various species—are made possible by the nervous system and especially by the brain.
biological
Erica is part of a research group that is studying a group of software executives. She is trying to determine the relationship between workplace stress and cancer. As part of the same study, she also advises her subjects on ways to counter workplace stress. Erica is most likely a _________.
health psychologist
which of the following is a drawback of case studies?
interviewers may influence particpants to give responses that suit their expectations
__________ allows psychologists and other scientists to observe behavior where it happens, or "in the field."
naturalistic observation
Which of the following is a typical characteristic of biologically-oriented psychologists?
they study the role of heredity in behavior and mental processes such as psychological disorders, criminal behavior and thinking.