Unit 1A: Psychology and it's Approaches (Modules 1-3)

Functionalism would be most interested in which of the following questions?

What is the adaptive value of consciousness?

What field of psychology would be most interested in the question of nature vs nurture? For example, is children's grammar mostly innate or formed by experience?

behavior genetics

Which of the following perspectives is most likely to address how the encoding, storage, and retrieval of information might alter our thoughts?

cognitive

Which of the following psychologists most strongly emphasize that human behavior is powerfully influenced by the interaction between people and their physical, social, political, and economic environments?

community

A psychologist works with children whose parents are divorcing. She helps them develop skills they need to cope with the situation. Which of the following psychologists is most likely to be helping these children?

counseling

Which of the following psychologists would be most likely to investigate biological, psychological, cognitive, and social changes over a lifetime?

developmental

Dwayne is interested in helping people make good decisions regarding their physical well-being. Dwayne should consider a career as a(n)

health psychologist

Who among the following would most likely study the interaction of people, machines, and physical environments?

human factors psychologist

Which of the following perspectives would be most likely to examine the unconscious motives of a person who is overly aggressive on the basketball court?

psychodynamic

Empiricism believes

science should rely on observation and experimentation

This review exercise is a good example of the concept that memory and learning improve after retrieving, rather than simply rereading information. This is called the:

testing effect

Psychology is best defined as

the science of behavior and mental processes

The early psychological school of thought known as Structuralism used a method of exploring consciousness called:

Introspection

A psychologist investigates the methods teachers use to enhance student learning. In which of the following subfields is the psychologist most likely working?

Educational psych

Wilhelm Wundt is considered the father of Psychology because

He was the first to scientifically study the mind in a laboratory.

The first female president of the American Psychological Association (APA) was

Mary Whiton Calkins

Which of the following is a major issue in modern-day psychology?

Nature-nurture

What was the relationship between Freud's psychoanalysis and the behaviorism of the 1920s?

They disagreed on whether psychology should focus on the internal or the external and observable

Psychiatrists differ from clinical psychologists in that they

are medical doctors licensed to prescribe medication