General Psychology

Which of these is the most accurate definition of the discipline of psychology?

• the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

• the scientific study of mental processes

• the scientific study of behavior

• the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes

What did Sigmund Freud consider as the key to understanding the nervous disorders he observed?

• the unconscious mind

• free will

• brain psychology

• external consequences

Freud stressed the important of _____________.

• early childhood experiences

• adolescence

• early adulthood

• middle adulthood

John B. Watson believed that psychology should involve the study of __________.

• behavior

• the mind

• the brain

• conciousness

The Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov discovered that __________.

• dogs would salivate to the sound of a ticking metronome due to a learned reflexive response called conditioning

• dogs would salivate to the sound of a ticking metronome due to habituation

• dogs would salivate to the sounds of a ticking metronome due to reflexology

• dogs would salivate to the sounds of a ticking metronome due to their fear response

The psychodynamic perspective was based on the work of __________.

• Freud

• Watson

• Gestalt

• Wundt

Professor Wenches approaches questions about human behavior from a perspective that emphasizes unconscious processes within the individual, such as inner forces or conflicts. What psychological approach does she most likely follow?

• the psychodynamic approach

• social-cognitive learning

• behaviorism

• the cognitive approach

Who claimed that behavior is affected by reinforcement?

• B. F. Skinner

• William James

• Sigmund Freud

• Wilhelm Wundt

You attend a lecture by a psychologist who uses terms as free will and self-actualization. With the points given, which psychological perspective is presented?

• humanism

• behaviorism

• functionalism

• psychodynamic

If you are interested in how patterns, beliefs, and customs influence behavior, you are interested in the __________ perspective.

• social-cultural

• behavioral

• psychodynamic

• cognitive