Exam 1: What Is Psychology

Social psychologists focus on social rules and roles and how groups affect attitudes and behaviour.

Match these descriptions with the appropriate professional. -Anyone who does any kind of psychotherapy.

Early psychologists who emphasized how behaviour helps an organism adapt to its environment were known as functionalists.

Match these job descriptions with the appropriate type of psychologist. -They study behaviour in the workplace.

Behaviourism is a part of which modern psychological perspective?

Donald Hebb of McGill University argued that all behavioural and mental phenomena arise as a result of physical activity within the brain that is reflective of which of the following perspectives?

An important movement in psychology that emerged in the 1960s and rejected psychoanalysis and behaviourism was:

The psychodynamic perspective emphasizes the dynamics of unconscious motives and conflicts.

A researcher is interested in how infants think about and perceive their world. It is most likely this researcher is working from within the ________ perspective.

The majority of psychological practitioners are school psychologists.

The biological perspective is an approach that emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions, feelings, and thoughts.

Psychologists from the biological perspective would be likely to agree that the symptoms of anxiety often bring hidden rewards, such as being excused from exams.

The theory of phrenology is a classic pseudoscience.

Clinical programs leading to a PsyD focus on professional practice and do not usually require a research dissertation.

The Stoic philosophers, in the first century AD, made observations regarding emotions that have been verified by contemporary psychological research.

The first person to announce that he intended to make psychology a science was:

During the second half of the twentieth century, psychology expanded rapidly, and today the American Psychological Association has 95 divisions representing diverse research and professional interests.

Match these descriptions with the appropriate perspective. -Focuses on how bodily events affect behaviour, feelings, and thoughts.

A psychologist from the learning perspective would be likely to view violence as resulting from violent role models that can influence a person to behave aggressively.

Randy meets a Calgarian who grows all her own vegetables and refuses to touch any nonorganic food and he concludes that Calgarians are overzealous about nutrition. This type of error illustrates the critical-thinking guideline: