Exam 1: Exstintion: What Is Psychology

A critical thinker would be LEAST likely to exclaim in the heat of an argument:

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

List and define the five major perspectives in modern psychology.

Psychologists from the sociocultural perspective would be likely to agree that anxious people often think about the future in distorted ways.

Why did William James argue that the structuralist approach was a waste of time? What school of psychology did he promote?

Which of the following is a theory of personality and a method of psychotherapy emphasizing unconscious motives and conflicts?

Which modern psychological perspective focuses on how our behavior is influenced by the other people in our environment?

Which modern psychological perspective had its origin in Freud's ideas?

Industrial/organizational psychologists now account for over two-thirds of new psychology doctorates and members of the American Psychological Association.

Erin is a linguist who defines language as a "system of communication that combines sounds and gestures into an infinite number of structured utterances that convey meaning." Based on her definition:

Psychologists from the sociocultural 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.

Humanistic psychologists try to dig below the surface of a person's behavior to get to its unconscious roots.

_______________ is revered by psychologists because he was the first person to announce that he intended to make psychology a science.

Psychologists from the psychodynamic 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.

Describe the three schools of psychological thought that became popular when psychology emerged as a discipline.Make sure you describe the major theorists associated with each school as well as the goal of each of these perspectives.

The learning perspective is an approach that emphasizes how the environment and experience affect a person's actions.

A researcher applied to work in the laboratory of Wilhelm Wundt in order to:

The majority of psychological practitioners are school psychologists.

Critical thinkers analyze their assumptions.Which of the following critical thinking errors illustrates that the speaker has not analyzed his assumptions?

Wundt suggested that specific character and personality traits could be read from bumps on the head.