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Chapter 01_11e
Indicate the answer choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
1. Marissa wants to study people’s emotional reactions to increases in temperature. Her classmate, Bernard, tells
her that she should focus on observable responses, rather than internal states, in her study. Bernard’s views are
MOST similar to those found in the perspective
psychodynamic
evolutionary
behavioral
biological
2. Dr. Lopez is a psychologist who evaluates, diagnoses, and treats people with everyday problems of moderate
severity. What type of psychologist is Dr. Lopez?
An educational psychologist
A counseling psychologist
A school psychologist
An industrial psychologist
3. Your friend is having difficulty studying. She states that she did little to no studying in high school and she is
unfamiliar with sound study habits. You suggest that she
listen to soothing music while she studies.
have an all-night study session right before an exam so the information is fresh.
make a weekly study plan with regularly scheduled times devoted solely to her studies.
highlight as much as she can in her book while reading.
4. In research studies, psychologists rely heavily upon:
empirical evidence.
opinions from other researchers.
individual case descriptions.
their own personal experiences.
5. Your roommate has been studying for her final exam in history. Knowing that you are taking a psychology class,
she asks for your advice. Based on what you have learned in class, you tell her to
get plenty of sleep the night before the exam.
stay up late and study as much as she can the night before the exam.
not worry about studying since she took good notes in class.
study for her history exam in the common room with her classmates.
6. Which of the following statements about Freud’s psychoanalytic theory is MOST accurate?
Freud’s views have been largely abandoned and they exert relatively little, if any, influence on current
mainstream psychology.
Freud’s views exert a tremendous influence on other disciplines, but not on psychology.
Freud’s views exert a tremendous influence on developmental and abnormal psychology, but not on other
areas of mainstream psychology.
Many psychoanalytic concepts have filtered into the mainstream of psychology.
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7. Although very popular by the 1950s, why did many psychologists find behaviorism and psychoanalytic theory
unappealing?
They found these disciplines to be dehumanizing.
They found the disciplines to be overly simplistic.
They found the disciplines to be too complex.
They believed both disciplines to be invalid.
8. Which of the following statements is MOST likely to be said by a critical thinker?
"There is lots of support for this claim, so it must be true."
"As long as it is on the news, it must be true."
"That is my opinion and nothing is going to change it!"
"Can I trust the information from this study found on my social media feed?"
9. Which theoretical perspective examines behavioral processes in terms of their adaptive value for members of a
species over the course of many generations?
Revolutionary psychology
Evolutionary psychology
Personality psychology
Social psychology
10. Graham’s research includes training rats to follow a maze to the end to receive a reward. His friend, Orlando,
does not believe that research on rats will be relevant to human behavior, as humans and animals are
fundamentally different. Orlando’s beliefs are most in line with which perspective?
Humanism
Behaviorism
Psychoanalysis
Functionalism
11. Charles is researching the hormonal and behavioral changes in women following menopause. Which of the
following best represents Charles’s area of research?
Physiological psychology
Evolutionary psychology
Cognitive psychology
Behaviorism
12. Freud concluded that psychological disturbances are largely caused by personal conflicts existing
in the environment.
at a structural level.
at a conscious level.
at an unconscious level.
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