Exam 1: Psychology, Critical Thinking, and Science

When a psychologist draws and utilizes aspects from many different psychological theories and approaches, we say that the psychologist is

Psychology became a science in 1879 when psychologists began to

Critical thinkers can be more confident in beliefs that have survived

When making diagnoses and conducting therapy, psychologists should

According to your textbook, which of the following is NOT one of the three broad perspectives that shape modern psychology?

Psychoanalytic psychology emphasizes free will, self-actualization, and the self-image.

You see a psychologist and tell her that you are feeling depressed. She talks to you about the goals you have for yourself, about your image of yourself, and about the choices that you can make in your life so that you can realize your potential. This psychologist would probably belong to which school of thought in psychology?

Which broad perspective in modern psychology seeks to explain behavior in terms of brain processes, evolution, and genetics?

Zoologist Christian Rutz and his colleagues outfitted shy New Caledonian crows with "crow cams" to better understand their use of tools to forage for food. Dr. Rutz and his colleagues were using the critter cams to minimize the observer effect in which type of research method?

APA professional codes stress all of the following EXCEPT

Explain why humanistic psychologists rejected the claims of psychodynamic theories and behaviorism, and then briefly explain the humanistic approach to psychology.

By selecting a representative sample and polling them, we can draw conclusions about the larger group called the population.

Regarding the professions of psychology, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Dr. Santel is conducting a study in which she will use five different observers to reliably confirm the observations within her study. Thus, Dr. Santel's scientific observations would be considered

The more you study, the fewer errors you will make on the next exam is an example of a __________ correlation.

Five thousand parents have been randomly selected from across the United States and will be asked a series of 20 well-chosen questions regarding their discipline techniques. These parents will be participating in which type of research study?

If a friend wishes to study the cognitive and emotional changes associated with the aging process throughout the life span, she should consider a career in __________ psychology.

Freud believed that mental life is like an iceberg with only a small part being exposed to view. He called the area of the mind that is not exposed and which lies outside of personal awareness the

When a person remembers or notices only information that backs up his or her expectations and forgets or ignores discrepancies, this person is exhibiting the actor-observer effect.

A verifiably predicted outcome of an experiment or an educated guess about the relationship between variables is called a(n)