Exam 1: Psychology: Yesterday and Today

Jill recently received her PhD in psychology. All else being equal, there is a 25%-30% chance that she works in a(n):

List the 4 values about psychology that academic, applied, and clinical/counseling psychologists share?

It is likely that psychology will become a part of biology in the future.

A type of therapy called __________ involves helping people modify thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that cause them distress.

Cognitive psychologists have determined that an individual letter is recognized more rapidly when it occurs in the context of a word than when it occurs in a random string of consonants. This finding is most clearly consistent with the ________ perspective in psychology's history.

According to your text, Bandura's work implied the influence of internal, mental representations on behavior. Bandura's work, therefore, helped enable the development of the _______ approach in psychology.

Noreen asserts that our behavior often reflects unconscious motives and conflicts. This viewpoint is most consistent with the ________ perspective in psychology.

Humanistic psychology represented a reaction to the _________ perspective(s) in psychology.

Who first proposed that animal findings could help to explain human behavior?

Which level of analysis in psychology is CORRECTLY matched with an example?

Provide an example of a reinforcing behavior.

What approach to psychotherapy did Carl Rogers develop that supported therapists respecting and treating their clients as equals?

What 3 levels of behavioral analyses do psychologists consider to gain a complete understanding of human mental processes and behavior?

What newer field investigates how cognitive processing varies across different populations?

Ulrich Neisser's influential text Cognitive Psychology was published in the year _______.

What technological development from the 1950s and 1960s contributed to the cognitive psychology revolution?

Which of the following sequences reflects the order in which the behaviorists discussed in your text made their most important contributions to the field, from the earliest to the most recent?

Both the structuralists and the cognitive psychologists investigated the conscious mind. How did the cognitive psychologists differ from the structuralists in their approach to the mind?

Provide an example that illustrates how conditioning can occur in animals.

Mental processes describe the activity of our brains when we are engaged in thinking. Should be: thinking, observing the environment, and using language.