Tnduction to Psych

What is
Psychology ?

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What is psychology?

• The scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

• The study of human behavior, especially the study of origins, organization, institutions, and development of human society.

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True or false: Mental processes include everything people can do with their mind.

• True

• False

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True or false: Behavior is something a person does that can be observed by other people.

• True

• False

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All of the following are examples of a behavior EXCEPT

• Thinking

• Yawning

• Stretching

• Cursing at someone

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True or False: A social worker can perform restricted psychological assessments, including intelligence tests, achievements tests and aptitude tests

• True

• False

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Which of the following is not a behavior?

• heart rate

• blood pressure

• dreaming

• cheering

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Psychological research attempts to use the scientific method.

• true

• false

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the person mostly responsible for psychology as a scientific discipline in it's own right

• Sigmund Freud

• Ivan Pavlov

• Wilhelm Wundt

• John B Watson

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the founder of behaviourism as a school of thought and research in psychology

• Freud

• Watson

• Wundt

• Neisser

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in Watson's little Albert experiment, what was used as the Neutral/conditioned stimulus in the original trial

• A Beard

• A Rabbit

• A Rat

• A Dog