Unit 1 Foundations of Psychology and Effects of Smartphones

Quentin has been monitoring what his siblings do when his parents yell at them, and how their actions change. His approach is most in line with what school of psychological thought?

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Psychoanalytical

• Humanistic

• Structuralist

Louisa has been helping clients all day in the facility that she works at. Many clients stay there for months, and sometimes years before they are well enough to leave. She is most likely a:

• clinical psychologist.

• industrial-organizational psychologist.

• psychiatrist.

• psychometrician

• counseling psychologist

Which of the following correctly describes how to randomly select a representative high school population?

• picking every fifth person with a high gpa from schools that are located in southern states

• selecting every other person from every student in multiple high schools around the country

• selecting 50 people from every school in the country with staff input

• selecting 5 students from every middle, elementary and high school through drawing straws

• selecting six students and staff from a lottery system at schools nationwide

The scientific study of the _________ and __________.

• society and behavior

• mind and behavior

• mind and society

• people and medicine

A psychologist who analyzes observable behavior & studies conditioning & reinforcement

• behaviorist
• functionalist
• structuralist
• psychoanalyst

The psychological perspective concerned with physiological and biochemical factors that determine behavior and mental processes.

• behavioral

• biological

• psychodynamic

• evolutionary

Which perspective would be most useful when explaining how people from different countries express anger?

• Psychodynamic

• Social-cultural

• Behavioral

• Biological

The study of the importance of satisfying love and acceptance needs best describes which school of psychology?

• Humanistic

• Behavioral

• Psychodynamic

• Functionalist

Who was the psychologist that developed psychoanalytic therapy?

• Wundt

• Freud

• James

• Dix

This research method is a descriptive technique in which one individual or group is studied in depth in the hope of revealing universal principles

• Case Study
• Survey
• Observational
• Correlational
• Experiments