Module 1-3

Contemporary psychology is best defined as the science of:

• conscious and unconscious mental activity

• observable responses to the environment

• observable behavior and mental processes

• thoughts, feelings, and perceptions

What makes psychology a science?

• Many psychologists have earned advanced college degrees.
• Psychologists may study the brain.
• The methods psychologists use to ask and answer questions.
• Psychologists focus on studying behavior and mental processes.

Sadie believes that she is the Queen of England and that the CIA is out to get her. What type of psychologist would be most likely to treat her psychological disorder?

• developmental
• cognitive
• clinical
• personality

What type of psychologist is most likely to wonder how the brain scans of someone experiencing an epileptic seizure differ from the scans of someone who has not had a seizure?

• clinical
• health
• developmental
• biological

What type of psychologist is most likely interested in conditions that lead to the greatest conformity?

• developmental
• cognitive
• social
• human-factors

Which subspecialty in psychology focuses on the cognitive differences between a 6-year-old and a 12-year-old?

• neuropsychologist

• social

• developmental

• forensic

Doctors Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga (1983, 1988) studied split-brain patients—those who had surgery that separated the left and right hemispheres of the brain—and discovered that the two hemispheres had different talents, such as the left specializing in language processing. These psychologists are most likely:

• neuropsychologists

• cognitive psychologists

• developmental psychologists

• rehabilitation psychologists

Who studied unconscious and conscious behavior?

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

• Ivan Pavlov

• John B. Watson

Which type of psychologist would most likely study a subject group from kindergarten to adulthood?

• Human-Factors

• Clinical

• Neuro

• Developmental

Which of the following modern perspective focuses on how unconscious traumas, experiences, and motives affect human behavior?

• Psychodynamic
• Behavioral
• Humanistic
• Cognitive