Exam 1: What Is Psychology

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

Clinical psychologists do psychotherapy and sometimes conduct research.

The phrase "stream of consciousness" is most closely associated with Sigmund Freud.

Psychobabble is defined as:

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

Match these definitions with the appropriate approach. -An early psychological approach that emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements.

This person usually earns an MD or a PhD followed by specific training in Freud's treatment in order to treat psychopathology.

The psychology that you study in the textbook closely resembles the popular psychology found in self-help books.

According to ________, no person can keep a secret because even if the lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips and betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.

The sociocultural perspective is the thumb on the hand of psychology, connected to the other fingers, but also set apart from them because it differs radically in its language, methods, and standards of acceptable evidence.

Sociocultural psychologists use an interesting metaphor in regard to humans and culture. They describe people as similar to fish! Fish are unaware that they live in water, so obvious is water in their lives. Explain why sociocultural psychologists use this metaphor.

"I may never know for sure whether my memory of my first visit to the ocean is accurate." This example illustrates which of the following critical-thinking guidelines?

Critical thinking involves all of the following EXCEPT:

The essential difference between structuralists and functionalists is that structuralists focused on the ________ of behaviour, where as functionalists focused on the ________ of behaviour.

An important characteristic of critical thinkers is:

Researchers in Wundt's laboratory would be most likely to study:

Beliefs that are taken for granted are called:

Critical thinking is not possible until a person has reached adulthood.

Enthusiasm for ________ did not disappear until well into the twentieth century, even though it was a classic pseudoscience.

Basic psychology is the study of psychological issues that have direct, practical significance.