Chapter 1 Section 1

Psychologist who studied the effect of segregation on children

• Kenneth B. Clark

• B. F. Skinner

• Socrates

• John B. Watson

Mental process, such as a dream or memory

• cognitive activity
• structuralism
• sociocultural perspective
• John B. Watson

Action that can be observed or measured

• behavior
• cognitive activity
• demons
• theories

Psychological ________________ explain and predict what governs behavior and mental processes.

• theories
• cannot/can
• counseling
• basic research

Research that has no immediate application is known as __________________________.

• theories
• cannot/can
• counseling
• basic research

Along with history, anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology, psychology is one of the ___________________.

• demons
• social sciences
• functionalism
• laboratories

Psychology is defined as the

• humanistic study of emotions and feelings
• sociological study of individuals and group dynamics
• scientific study of behavior and mental process
• study of supernatural phenomena

The main goals of psychology are to

• observe, describe, explain, predict, and control behavior
• observe and describe feelings
• observe and describe phenomena that science cannot explain
• research and teach positive visualization

Two research methods widely used by psychologists are

• precognition and the Ganzfield procedure
• surveys and experiments
• water-float tests and lie detector tests
• introspection and reinforcement

The practice of psychology is closely related to the natural sciences by

• its concern with biological functions of the brain
• the way it conducts experiments
• the way it analyzes data and draws conclusions
• all of the above