Question 1

A friend who has been studying psychology a lot longer than you tells you that your habit of biting your nails is the result of an inner conflict between your personal need to stay a child and society's demand that you grow up. You should recognize this advice as stemming from the ________ perspective.

Accepted Answer

A)   cultural
B)   biological
C)   humanistic
D)   psychodynamic

Question 2

Evolutionary psychologists are more likely to explain the male and female sexual roles of today as

Accepted Answer

A)   products of recent changes in the society.
B)   behaviors that developed over extremely long periods of time.
C)   identical to those roles as they existed during the Pleistocene era.
D)   learned responses to environmental consequences in the individual male's and female's experience.

Question 3

While looking for a reference in the psychology section of the library, you come across an interesting book that emphasizes the "whole" person. It includes references to historical figures, artists, and authors. You are most likely looking at a book that is taking a ________ perspective.

Accepted Answer

A)   cognitive
B)   humanistic
C)   behaviorist
D)   psychodynamic

Question 4

One way in which the cognitive model of behavior differs from the behavioral model is in the assertion that, according to the cognitive model, behavior

Accepted Answer

A)   may result from totally novel ways of thinking.
B)   is totally determined by past behavioral consequences.
C)   is totally determined by preceding environmental events.
D)   is totally determined by both preceding stimulus events and past behavioral consequences.

Question 5

You're reading an article about how recent research has shown that infants are much more sophisticated than was previously thought. Although several different types of psychologists may have written it, the author is most likely a ________ psychologist.

Accepted Answer

A)   health
B)   clinical
C)   developmental
D)   human factors

Question 6

The behaviorist perspective was pioneered by ________, who first argued that psychological research should seek the laws that govern observable behavior.

Accepted Answer

A)   Sigmund Freud
B)   John Watson
C)   Mary Calkins
D)   B. F. Skinner

Question 7

A man is convicted of being a serial killer. A psychologist who favors the biological perspective would be MOST likely to look for the determinants of the killer's behavior in the

Accepted Answer

A)   immediate stimulus environment.
B)   man's unconscious drives and conflicts.
C)   man's brain and nervous system processes.
D)   adaptive behaviors of the man's ancestors.

Question 8

While proofreading a paper a friend has written on the life of Wilhelm Wundt, you are startled by an error that states that Wundt

Accepted Answer

A)   was trained as a physiologist.
B)   established the first formal psychology laboratory.
C)   wrote a book entitled Principles of Physiological Psychology.
D)   was the founder and first president of the American Psychological Association.

Question 9

As an advocate of an alternative to structuralism, the German psychologist ________ focused on the way in which the mind understands experiences as organized wholes rather than as the sums of simple parts.

Accepted Answer

A)   Max Wertheimer
B)   Sigmund Freud
C)   Wilhelm Wundt
D)   Edward Titchener

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