Exam 1: What Is Psychology

How common is it for school children to be bullied? Before you can answer this question you have to look at the question from the viewpoint of a critical thinker. Describe the various ways that this question could be answered once the question is framed in clear and concrete terms.

Scholars of the past who wanted to understand human behaviour tended to rely on anecdotes and descriptions of individual cases.

The phrase "stream of consciousness" is most closely associated with William James.

Psychologists from the biological perspective would be likely to agree that anxious people often think about the future in distorted ways.

Emelyn, a class of 1901 college graduate, wants to pursue a graduate career in psychology in order to study the ways that various actions help a person adapt to the environment. The psychological approach of ________ best matches Emelyn's interests.

Psychologists from the sociocultural perspective would be likely to agree that the symptoms of anxiety may be caused by a chemical imbalance.

A psychologist from the psychodynamic perspective would be likely to suggest that violent people are quick to perceive provocation and insult.

In the early 1800s, the theory of phrenology was developed by:

Tara cannot believe what she reads about anger in self-help magazines, which suggest that sometimes expressing anger is beneficial, but more often it is not. Tara finds this difficult to accept because she has been told over and over that it is healthy to vent her anger. Based on your reading of Chapter 2, design a research study that Tara could conduct in order to examine this issue.

Psychology can help you get better grades by teaching you active read-recite-review strategies.

Critical thinking also is referred to as negative thinking.

Psychologists from the psychodynamic perspective would be likely to agree that the symptoms of anxiety may be the result of a national emphasis on competition and success that promotes anxiety about failure.

________ established the first psychological laboratory in 1879.

Which of the following is NOT one of the major professional activities of psychologists?

Despite its profound influence, many of the concepts that came out of the early school of ________ were, and still are, rejected by the majority of empirically oriented psychologists.

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

Psychology has been a science for more than 100 years.

Which modern psychological perspective focuses on how our behaviour is influenced by people in our environment?

Psychologists from the biological perspective would be likely to agree that anxiety is due to forbidden, unconscious desires.

Structuralists asked ________ when a person experiences something.