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- 1. Multiple ChoiceWhich perspective believed psychology should emphasize the potential for growth of each human being and an individual’s freedom to make their own decisions?BiologicalHumanisticPsychodynamicBehavioral
- 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich psychological perspective focuses on how we think about information?CognitiveBehavioralEvolutionaryPsychodynamic
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhich psychological perspective would be most interested in studying our brain structures & chemistry, genetics, glands, etc.?BiologicalStructuralismFunctionalismHumanistic
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhich psychological perspective studies how the situation and our upbringing influence our behavior?PsychoanalysisSocial-CulturalBehaviorismFunctionalism
- 5. Multiple ChoiceWhich perspective studies learning and how rewards and punishments influence how humans and animals act (observable responses)?CognitiveBehaviorismHumanismEvolutionary
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the definition of psychology?Study of how we think about, influence, and relate to one anotherStudy of behavior and logicScientific study of behavior and mental processesStudy of how how our influences affect us
- 7. Multiple ChoiceEating disorders are more prevalent in the West because we are constantly bombarded with images of thin, perfect bodies.Social-cultural perspectiveBehavioral perspectiveBiological perspectivePsychodynamic perspective
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which perspective says our unconscious drives, such as neurotic needs or birth order, childhood memories, and shape behavior?
sociocultural
psychodynamic
behavioral
humanistic
- 9. Multiple ChoiceIf a student can't learn in the classroom, it might be because he doesn't feel safe there, and thus cannot reach his full potential.Biological perspectivePsychodynamic perspectiveHumanistic perspectiveCognitive perspective
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhich perspective would be most likely to state many of our behaviors have developed as a result of our species’ adaptation to the challenges of surviving across millennia?BehavioralPsychodynamicSocioculturalEvolutionary
- 11. Multiple ChoiceTreat mental illness with medication.Biological approachPsychodynamic approachHumanistic approachBehavioral approach
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWho is considered the "father of psychology" and began the first psychology lab?Wilhelm WundtWiliiam JamesSigmund FreudEdward Titchener
- 13. Multiple Choice
Titchener believed that psychology should study the basic elements of conscious experience and belonged to which school of thought?
Behaviorism
Functionalism
Humanism
Structuralism
- 14. Multiple Choice
Who wrote the first psychology textbook, was the first American psychologist, and believed psychology should study the functions of consciousness?
G. Stanley Hall
John Watson
William James
Willhelm Wundt
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhich psychological perspective focuses on how we think about information?CognitiveBehavioralEvolutionaryPsychodynamic
- 16. Multiple ChoiceWhich psychological perspective would be most interested in studying our brain structures & chemistry, genetics, glands, etc.?BiologicalStructuralismFunctionalismHumanistic
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWhich psychological perspective studies how the situation and our upbringing influence our behavior?PsychoanalysisSocial-CulturalBehaviorismFunctionalism
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which practitioner has a doctorate degree (Ph D.) in psychology but cannot prescribe medication?
psychologist
clinical psychologist
psychiatrist
evolutionist
- 19. Multiple ChoiceIn 1879, in Leipzig, Germany, the first psychological laboratory was overseen by ______________.William JamesWilliam TellWilhelm WundtSigmund Freud
- 20. Multiple ChoiceWhich field of psychology helps people with adjustment problems, but do not have a serious psychological disorder?Clinical psychologyCounseling psychologyDevelopmental psychologySchool psychology
- 21. Multiple Choice
Historical perspective of psychology that focused on mental life and behavior in terms of active adaptation to the person's environment.
functionalism
structuralism
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhich approach to psychology focuses on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures?humanisticpsychodynamicsocial-culturalcognitive
- 23. Multiple Choice
Which practitioner has a doctorate degree (MD.) in psychology and can prescribe medication, if needed?
psychologist
psychiatrist
clinical psychologist
evolutionist
- 24. Multiple Choice
In explaining human behavior, psychoanalysts are likely to focus on…?
Evolved functions of our thoughts and feelings
Observable behavior
Childhood experiences and unconscious thought processes
The study of brain activity linked with mental activity
- 25. Multiple Choice
Who was Mary Whiton Calkins?
Wife of G. Stanley Hall
First woman to receive a Ph. D in Psychology
First woman author of a psychology book
First female president of APA
- 26. Multiple Choice
Who was Margaret Floy Washburn?
First female to receive a Ph. D. in psychology
Studied with Mary Calkins at the APA
Studied under Willhelm Wund
First female to be President of the APA
- 27. Multiple Choice
Which psychological perspective focuses on how we think about information?
Behavioral
Cognitive
Evolutionary
Psychodynamic
- 28. Multiple Choice
Which perspective would focus on the extent to which different styles of parenting are encouraged among various ethnic communities?
cognitive
psychodynamic
social-cultural
biological
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