Question 1

_______________ is the study of psychological issues for the sake of knowledge rather than for its practical application.

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A)   Basic psychology
B)   Clinical psychology
C)   Applied psychology
D)   Educational psychology

Question 2

Behaviorists would agree that anxiety is due to forbidden, unconscious desires.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Tara cannot believe what she reads about anger: "…depending on the circumstances, sometimes it is helpful to express your feelings, but sometimes venting your anger makes everything worse." Tara finds this difficult to accept because she has been told over and over that it is healthy to "ventilate" her anger. Based on your reading of Chapter 2, design a research study that Tara could conduct in order to examine this issue.

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Question 4

Applied psychology is the study of psychological issues for the sake of knowledge rather than for practical application.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

"My memory of getting knocked down by a wave at Newport Beach could be based on what my parents told me later, not on my own recollection." Which of the following critical thinking guidelines does this example illustrate?

Accepted Answer

A)   define your terms
B)   avoid emotional reasoning
C)   consider other interpretations
D)   don't oversimplify

Question 6

_______________ founded the field of psychoanalysis.

Accepted Answer

A)   Sigmund Freud
B)   William James
C)   Wilhelm Wundt
D)   E. B. Titchener

Question 7

Andie claims that phrenology is a pseudoscience and not a true science. Which of the following statements supports her claim?

Accepted Answer

A)   When phrenologists found large "stealing" bumps on the head of a person who was not a thief, they concluded that other positive bumps held this characteristic in check.
B)   Most of the phrenologists received inadequate training in the analysis of head bumps and so there were variations in their predictions.
C)   Phrenologists relied heavily on the theories of Charles Darwin, and yet they could not link the bumps to evolutionary adaptation.
D)   When "bumps" did not accurately explain a person's characteristics, the phrenologists explained the contradiction by hypothesizing traumatic childhood experiences. A

Question 8

Credit for founding modern psychology is generally given to Wilhelm Wundt.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

The founder of functionalism was:

Accepted Answer

A)   Sigmund Freud.
B)   William James.
C)   Wilhelm Wundt.
D)   E. B. Titchener.

Question 10

A(n)  __________ psychologist studies how genetically-influenced behavior that was functional or adaptive during our species' past may be reflected in the present behaviors, mental processes, and traits of modern humans.

Accepted Answer

A)   cognitive
B)   behavioral
C)   sociocultural
D)   evolutionary

Question 11

Feminist psychology critically examined the male bias in psychotherapy.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

A _______________ might study what goes on in the mind of an infant or study different types of intelligence.

Accepted Answer

A)   cultural psychologist
B)   learning theorist
C)   cognitive researcher
D)   biological psychologist

Question 13

There is a growing trend among psychologists to have interests and beliefs that:

Accepted Answer

A)   include aspects of two or more traditional approaches.
B)   are related to the environmental effects on behavior.
C)   were once considered pseudoscience.
D)   cannot be studied using empirical methods. A

Question 14

Hippocrates argued that the brain is the ultimate source of human pleasures and pains.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

Tom is a psychologist investigating the contributions of genes in the development of abilities and personality traits in human beings. Tom is most likely a _______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   biological psychologist
B)   learning theorist
C)   cognitive researcher
D)   cultural psychologist A

Question 16

The phrase "stream of consciousness" is closely associated with William James.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

A difference between the great thinkers of history and today's psychologists is that:

Accepted Answer

A)   modern psychologists want to describe, predict, understand, and modify behavior.
B)   modern psychologists rely heavily on empirical evidence.
C)   modern psychologists wonder whether emotion controls us or is something we can control.
D)   modern psychologists want to know how people take in information through their senses and use that information to solve problems.

Question 18

Which of the following approaches was popular during the early days of modern psychology?

Accepted Answer

A)   the structuralist perspective
B)   the cognitive-biological perspective
C)   the feminist perspective
D)   the sociocultural perspective

Question 19

Wilhelm Wundt's trained introspectors had to make between 10 and 50 practice observations before they were allowed to participate in an actual study.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

_______________ set the course of psychological science by emphasizing the causes and consequences of behavior.

Accepted Answer

A)   Functionalists
B)   Rationalists
C)   Fundamentalists
D)   Structuralists

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The phrase "stream of consciousness" is closely associated with William James.

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A difference between the great thinkers of history and today's psychologists is that:

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Wilhelm Wundt's trained introspectors had to make between 10 and 50 practice observations before they were allowed to participate in an actual study.

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_______________ set the course of psychological science by emphasizing the causes and consequences of behavior.

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Feminist psychology critically examined the male bias in psychotherapy.

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The phrase "stream of consciousness" is closely associated with William James.

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