Psychology

______ studies the links among brain, mind, and behavior.

Behavioral neuroscience

Which discipline of psychology examines the relationship between bodily systems and chemicals and their relationship to behavior and thought?

Biological psychology

Those who do research on cognition and learning are often referred to as ______ because they conduct laboratory experiments to address their research questions.

Experimental psychologist

Jennie believes that she is in control of her own life and can achieve whatever goals she sets for herself. Jennie's beliefs are in line with which perspective in psychology?

Humanistic

Which of the following disciplines is both a clinical practice and a science?

Psychology

biological systems involved in thought and behavior are inherited but are still open to modification from the environment

Softwired

Ancient Greece is significant in the history of psychology for which of the following reasons?

The foundations for psychology as a science can be traced to ancient Greece

What is the difference between the higher and lower levels of natural selection?

The lower level is where individuals compete within their groups, and the higher level is where the in-group competes with out-groups.

Sigmund Freud claimed that which of the following is the problem underlying all adult neuroses?

The repression of sexual and/or aggressive urges

Which of the following best describes Sigmund Freud's theory of abnormal behavior?

The unconscious mind is the most powerful motivator of behavior

Marga is a therapist whose hometown had a school fire in which many children died. Which of the following therapeutic techniques would be least helpful to trauma victims?

Urging distressed people to talk through what they had experienced

A developmental psychologist would most likely study which of the following?

Verbal ability from childhood to adolescence

What is "trauma tourism"?

When people come to areas of destruction to help so that they can feel better about themselves

The founder of psychology in the United States was

William James

Clinical psychologists warn us that the online environment can be a potentially dangerous environment for children. In one study (Ybarra & Mitchell, 2008), 1 in 7 children (ages 10-17) have

been sexually solicited online.

Dr. Watson observes how children react to receiving a prize for doing well on a math test. Dr. Watson is most likely a ___________ psychologist.

behavioral

Psychology is both a

clinical practice and a science

What branch of psychology aims to uncover the adaptive problems that the human mind may have solved in the distant past and evolution's effect on behavior today?

evolutionary psychology

Empiricism means that knowledge comes from

experience

Dr. Mendes was called as an expert witness in a trial. He was asked to provide testimony about which parent should have primary custody of the children following a difficult custody battle. What type of psychology does Dr. Mendes practice?

forensic psychology

Which of the following early approaches to psychology focused on why and how people think and feel?

functionalism

The Feist and Rosenberg text states that psychology is unique among the sciences in that __________.

it is the science of understanding individuals

In psychology, the root word is psyche, which comes from the Greek for

mind

Clyde has suffered several episodes of depression over his lifetime. Clyde wonders if his depressions might have been triggered by a neurotransmitter deficiency. To answer his questions, Clyde would likely visit a(n)

neuroscientist

Which of the following psychologists would be the most interested in studying the phenomenon of creating an avatar (or an alter ego) in a gaming world?

personality psychologist

Jennifer is always forgetting to call her mother. Although Jennifer cannot pinpoint why this happens, a ____________ would wonder if Jennifer was forgetting due to unconscious forces.

psychodynamic psychologist

Introspection was the primary research method used to understand thoughts and behavior in which of the following approaches to psychology?

structuralism

be a topic studied by a health psychologist?

studies on disease prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation research on the role of social factors in how people interact with health-care professionals how stress is linked to illness and immune function

Evolutionary psychologists are interested in

the functions of the mind