Psych Practice

Which approach to psychology focuses on the body, the brain, the nervous and endocrine systems, and genetics?

• humanistic

• biological

• behavioral

• cognitive

• psychoanalytic

Which approach to psychology focuses your individual potential, choice, personal growth, and free will?

• humanistic

• biological

• behavioral

• cognitive

• psychoanalytic

Which approach to psychology focuses on the unconscious and a person's childhood?

• humanistic

• biological

• behavioral

• cognitive

• psychoanalytic

Which approach to psychology focuses on your thoughts and mental processes?

• humanistic

• biological

• behavioral

• cognitive

• psychoanalytic

Which approach to psychology believes that all behavior is created by nurture - rewards and punishments and the environment a person is raised in?

• humanistic

• biological

• behavioral

• cognitive

• psychoanalytic

If you believe that NATURE is the more important influence in human development in the Nature vs. Nurture controversy, than you would prefer which kind of research method?

• experiments like on Little Albert

• twin studies

• observation

• surveys

• adoption studies

If you believe that NURTURE is the more important influence in human development in the Nature vs. Nurture controversy, than you would support the importance of all of the following EXCEPT?

• types of toys

• types of teachers

• neighborhood lived in

• style of parenting

• genetics

What is another name for our processes of thinking, sorting ideas into concepts and prototypes, taking mental shortcuts, how we problem solve?

• development

• schema

• heuristic

• cognition

• behaviorism

Messages from the nervous system are _______________ and sent through _______________.

• slow; secretion of hormones

• slow; electrochemical impulses

• fast; secretion of hormones

• fast; electrochemical impulses

Messages from the endocrine system are _______________ and sent through _______________.

• slow; secretion of hormones

• slow; electrochemical impulses

• fast; secretion of hormones

• fast; electrochemical impulses