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PSYC 101 Practice Questions
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- PSYCH 101
- Institution
- Queensborough Community College
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1. Which of the following was mentioned as a skill to which psychology students would be exposed?A. critical thinking
B. use of the scientific method
C. critical evaluation of sources of information
D. all of the above
2. Psyche is a Greek word meaning ________.
A. essence
B. soul
C. behavior
D. love
3. Before psychology became a recognized academic discipline, matters of the mind were undertaken by those in ________.
A. biology
B. chemistry
C. philosophy
D. physics
4. In the scientific method, a hypothesis is a(n) ________.
A. observation
B. measurement
C. test
D. proposed explanation
5. Based on your reading, which theorist would have been most likely to agree with this statement: Perceptual phenomena are best unde
combination of their components.
A. William James
B. Max Wertheimer
C. Carl Rogers
D. Noam Chomsky
6. ________ is most well-known for proposing his hierarchy of needs.
A. Noam Chomsky
B. Carl Rogers
C. Abraham Maslow
D. Sigmund Freud
7. Rogers believed that providing genuineness, empathy, and ________ in the therapeutic environment for his clients was critical to their
to deal with their problems.
A. structuralism
B. functionalism
C. Gestalt
D. unconditional positive regard
8. The operant conditioning chamber (aka ________ box) is a device used to study the principles of operant conditioning.
A. Skinner
B. Watson
C. James
D. Koffka
9. A researcher interested in how changes in the cells of the hippocampus (a structure in the brain related to learning and memory) are re
memory formation would be most likely to identify as a(n) ________ psychologist.
A. biological
B. health
C. clinical
D. social
10. An individual’s consistent pattern of thought and behavior is known as a(n) ________.
A. psychosexual stage
B. object permanence
C. personality
D. perception
11. In Milgram’s controversial study on obedience, nearly ________ of the participants were willing to administer what appeared to be let
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