Exam 1: What Is Psychology

Applied psychology is the study of psychological issues that have direct practical significance.

Critical thinkers realize that everybody's beliefs are as good as everybody else's.

Critical thinking involves:

Psychology has been a science for more than 1,000 years.

The key to whether or not a psychological finding is important is whether or not the finding is surprising.

Juanita is studying in her dorm room when her roommate says, "Why did you sign up for a psychology class? Everyone knows that psychology is the same as plain, old common sense." How should Juanita explain the differences between psychology and common sense?

A psychiatrist is a therapist:

As women began to enter psychology in greater numbers in the early 1970s, they began to document evidence of a pervasive bias in the research methods that were being used. Describe the biases that these feminist psychologists documented.

_______________ psychologists are concerned with group decision making, employee morale, work motivation, productivity, job stress, and many such organizational issues.

Sigmund Freud's ideas evolved into a method of psychotherapy that came to be known as psychoanalysis.

Counseling psychologists are trained to do psychotherapy with severely disturbed people.

The feminist movement in psychology was important because it:

In almost all states, a _______________ is required to obtain a license to practice clinical psychology.

Critical thinkers are willing to accept "received wisdom."