PSYC - Domain I (Intro to Psychology)

Psychology is

• the study of human origins, evolution, and cultures.
• the scientific study of behavior and mental processes of any living creature.
• a natural science integrating physiology and neurology.
• the deductive study of forms and functions of human groups.

The goals of psychology are to

• develop effective methods of psychotherapy.
• describe, predict, understand and change behavior.
• explain the functioning of the human mind.
• compare, analyze, and control human behavior.

Freud believed that all thoughts and actions are determined by

• the first year of life.
• forces in the personality that are often unconscious.
• needs for love and self-esteem.
• the drive for self-actualization

Developmental psychologists study the effects of __________ on behavior.

• marketing
• learning disabilities
• aging
• robotics

The key idea in the behavioristic view is that

• behavior is shaped and controlled by one's environment
• behavior is the result of clashing forces with the personality
• behavior can be understood in terms of the mental processing of information
• environment plays a very small role in controlling one's behavior

__________ psychology is concerned with thinking, language, and problem solving.

• Behaviorist
• Psychoanalytic
• Cognitive
• Humanistic

Of the following, who was a structuralist?

• B. F Skinner
•  John Watson
• Wilhelm Wundt
• William James

Of the following, who was a functionalist?

• B. F Skinner
•  John Watson
• Wilhelm Wundt
• William James

An experiment where neither the participants nor the experimenter know who has received the treatment, until the experiment has concluded, is known as what?

• Random Experiment
• Single-blind Experiment
• Stratified Experiment
• Double-blind Experiment

What type of correlation is shown by the graph?

• Positive Correlation
• Negative Correlation
• Double Correlation
• No Correlation