Exam 1: What Is Psychology

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

Psychology can be defined as the discipline concerned with:

Open-mindedness means that all opinions are created equal.

Developmental psychologists study how people change and grow over time.

Critical thinkers realize that all opinions are created equal.

The term ________ refers to a mental-health professional who generally has at least an MA and who typically treats individual dysfunction and family problems, but may also deal with problems such as addiction or abuse.

Which modern perspective in psychology is most like functionalism?

Which modern psychological perspective looks at how people reason, solve problems, and understand language?

Most psychologists who do research have the following degree:

Horst applies to work in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt in order to:

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.

Critical thinkers prefer explanations that require the fewest assumptions and are supported by the most evidence.

Critical thinking may be defined as:

Match these descriptions with the appropriate perspective. -Concerned with how the environment and experience affect a person's (or a nonhuman animal's) actions.

Educational psychologists design and evaluate tests of mental abilities, aptitudes, interests, and personality.

During the early decades of psychology's existence as a formal discipline, three schools of psychological thought became popular. The school of ________ soon faded from psychology.

Which modern psychological perspective has strongly encouraged precision and objectivity in psychology?

Structuralism was an early psychological approach that emphasized the purpose of behaviour and consciousness.

Practitioners now account for over of half all psychologists in Canada.

Critical thinkers are able to look for flaws in arguments.