Exam 1: Exstintion: What Is Psychology

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.

According to _______________,attempting to grasp the nature of the mind through introspection is like trying to turn up the gas lights in order to see how the darkness looks.

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.

One of functionalism's leaders was Wilhelm Wundt,an American philosopher,physician,and psychologist who argued that searching for building blocks of experience was a waste of time.

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

Empirical findings are those that:

Over two-thirds of new doctoral degrees in psychology are awarded in the areas of:

Psychology differs from pseudoscience and psychobabble in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

Psychobabble refers to the fact that infants as young as seven months can derive simple linguistic rules from a string of sounds.

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

During the 1990s psychology expanded rapidly and,by the year 2000,the American Psychological Association had 95 divisions representing diverse research and professional interests.

A fortuneteller reads Haifa's palm and tells Haifa that she will fall in love during spring break when she travels to Cancun.As a critical thinker enrolled in a General Psychology class,how would Haifa react to this news? What critical thinking guidelines would be important for her to consider?

Critical thinking involves all of the following EXCEPT:

Wilhelm Wundt's trained introspectors had to make between 50 and 100 practice observations before they were allowed to participate in an actual study.

After Jean completed her graduate work,she was licensed as a clinical psychologist.Her graduate training had focused on professional practice and she completed a literature review rather than a dissertation.Jean's advanced degree is likely to be a/an:

The structuralists had an intensive program of research in Germany and the United States.What became of this school of psychology? What challenges did the structuralists encounter?

When comparing the academic field of psychology to "pop psych," all of the following are true of psychology EXCEPT:

Hippocrates wrote that the heart is the ultimate source of human pleasures,joys,pains,and tears.

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

According to _______________,attempting to grasp the nature of the mind through introspection is like seizing a spinning top to catch its motion.