Exam 1: What Is Psychology

The goal of humanist psychology is to help people express themselves creatively and achieve their full potential.

Freud is to the study of ________ as James is to the study of ________.

Freudian concepts are accepted by most empirically oriented psychologists.

In 1939, the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) was formed. What was its main focus and what is its current mandate?

Which modern perspective focuses on how people reason, remember, understand language, and solve problems?

Because they relied on anecdotes rather than experiments, the forerunners of modern psychology were always wrong in their description of human behaviour.

Juanita is studying in her dorm room when her roommate says, "Why did you sign up for a psychology class? Everyone knows that psychology is the same as plain old common sense." After reading Chapter 1, how would Juanita describe the differences between psychology and common sense?

Match these descriptions with the appropriate perspective. -Focuses on social and cultural forces outside the individual that shape behaviour.

A person is asked to listen to the clicking of a metronome and then to report exactly what she heard. This type of research would be typical in which of the following schools of psychology?

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

________ is the aspect of psychology least recognized and understood by the public.

Humanism developed, in part, as a reaction against which two perspectives?

Match these examples with the appropriate perspective. -Steve's aggressiveness results from the fact that his parents let him watch too many violent shows on television.

Humanist psychology is a psychological approach that emphasizes personal growth and the achievement of human potential.

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

The goal of Wilhelm Wundt's trained introspection volunteers was to break down behaviour into its most basic elements.

Freud's first book, The Interpretation of Dreams, was an overnight sensation that went through five printings in only eight years.

A psychologist from the psychodynamic perspective would be likely to view violence as resulting from brain damage caused by birth complications.

Psychology became a formal discipline in the sixteenth century.

Psychologists from the biological 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.