Exam 1: Psychology: the Science of Behaviour

Even when students are working in a group, American teachers are more likely to direct their comments to individuals. In Japan, teachers are more likely to direct their comments at groups. This difference between educational behaviours in the two countries has the most relevance to which of the following?

Julie wants to earn good grades in college. She carefully schedules time to study, but every time she sits down she realizes how messy her dorm room is, she can hear other people talking down the hall, or she is distracted by the television. Which of the following would a behaviourist tell Julie to do first?

A developmental psychologist would do which of the following?

Professors at Superior College are interested in finding outcomes of different study methods employed by students and plan a research on a sample of students. What research design would be best suited for such a study?

Compared to the other ways of trying to understand the world, critical thinking is unique in that it emphasizes

William James was a proponent of the approach to psychology known as

Sigmund Freud based some of his psychoanalytic theory on his investigation of which psychological disorder?

The early school of American psychology looks at the functions of consciousness and behaviour in helping the individual adapting to their environment and also satisfy their needs. Collectively this is termed structuralism?

In what sense do depressive behaviours have biological, psychological, and environmental consequences?

Which of the following is NOT true about psychology?

After encountering a number of patients who had physical problems without any apparent physical cause, Sigmund Freud reasoned that the causes must be psychological and beyond his patients' conscious awareness. For example, one of his patients, a woman named Anna O., sometimes developed paralysis in her limbs, even though there was nothing physically wrong with her. Based on his observations, Freud eventually developed a theory he called psychoanalysis. What was Freud actually analyzing?

Predictability of the nature of behaviour of people under certain conditions is not considered a foundational goal of psychology?

Which of the following is an accurate comparison between the behavioural and psychodynamic perspectives is most accurate?

Gordon, a budding psychologist, asks himself questions pertaining to critical thinking. Which of the following questions should he NOT ask himself?

If you wanted to understand some of the important causes of depression and you paid attention to the negative thinking that often accompanies depression, you would be interpreting depression from which level of analysis?

Evolutionary theory assumes that individuals who receive a competitive advantage from inherited traits will be more likely to survive, reproduce, and thus pass on these adaptive traits to future generations. This process is known as

The sociocultural and behavioural perspectives are similar in that both emphasize

Thuy emigrated to Canada with her parents when she was a year old. Her parents still speak Vietnamese, practice Confucianism, and eat rice with most meals. They have decorated their home with woodcuts, lacquered art, and sculptures of pagodas. Thuy, however, speaks Vietnamese only with her parents, attends a Canadian church, eats a wide variety of foods, and has decorated her apartment with movie posters, impressionist paintings, and pictures of her friends at amusement parks. Based on this information, we can say that Thuy

Which technique did Sigmund Freud use to treat his patients?

Two people are witnesses to a violent earthquake. One person is mildly upset by this event and copes well with it. The other person, who has a biological predisposition to anxiety, becomes very stressed after the event, has difficulty coping with it, and eventually gets ill. Because the effects of the earthquake differed, depending on whether the person had the predisposition of anxiety or not, this would be an example of an