Goals of Pschology

................................ are the ones involved in actively influencing behaviour by applying knowledge obtained by basic psychologists.

• Influential psychologist

• Applied psychologists

• Social Psychologists

• Clinical Psychologists

The final goal of psychology is……………

• Influence behavior

• Understand behavior

• Prescribe behavior

• Explain behavior

A psychologist has been able to identify the distinguishing features of depressive behavior, namely sad mood, weight loss or gain, loss of interest in everything, psychomotor retardation, sleep problems. Which goal of psychology is achieved in the above scenario?

• Describe behavior.

• Understand/ behavior

• Predict behavior

• Influence behavior

A neuropsychologist is carrying out an experiment to know why people forget things. Which goal of psychology will he achieve if he successfully come out with “why people forget things”

• Understand/explain behavior.

• Predict behavior

• Control behavior

• Know behavior

……………..“the scientific study of human behavior and that of other organisms(animals)”

humans and chimpanzees share about ……………….of their DNA

• 98.8%

• 98.0%

• 99.9%

• 100%

Principle of parsimony states that…….

• if two or more theories are capable of explaining a phenomenon, the simpler, most basic one should be used.

• if two or more theories are capable of explaining a phenomenon, the complex one, should be used.

• Humans evolved from chimpanzees so it is knowledge gain from studying can be applied in humans

• It is not ethical to use animal in research works

Which is of the following is a reason why animals are used in some psychological research instead of humans

• Animals and humans are different

• Similarities in central nervous system challenged

• Animal rights violations

• To avoid causing harm to humans through experimentation

Psychologists believe that information obtained from animal studies can be applied to humans to some extent

• True

• False

In their quest to understand and predict behaviour, psychologists use a lot of animals in their studies.

• True

• False