Last Review for Psych Final

The Greeks and other early thinkers relied on ____ as a means of knowing their world. Their technique set the stage for the development of the sciences, including psychology.

• observation

• introspection

• sensations

• behaviors

Psychologists who are educated in the principles of human development, clinical psychology, and education, and help young people with emotional or learning problems are

• counseling psychologists.

• clinical psychologists.

• community psychologists.

• school psychologists.

This approach to psychology focuses on individual humans and stresses concepts such as free will, self-development, and self-actualization.

• Humanistic Psychology

• Psychoanalytic Psychology

• Behavioral Psychology

• Gestalt Psychology

This approach to psychology  believes that humans tend to perceive objects as complete rather than focusing on the gaps that the object might contain.

• Humanistic Psychology

• Psychoanalytic Psychology

• Behavioral Psychology

• Gestalt Psychology

In an experiment, a hypothesis is an educated guess about the relationship between two

• variables.

• samples.

• populations.

• control groups.

When does development begin?

• before birth

• at the moment of birth

• when the baby goes home

• when the baby can hold its head up

The method for extracting information automatically from a stimulus is the what? An example of this is seeing a word and automatically reading it.

• attentive process.

• preattentive process.

• just noticeable difference.

• Stroop effect.

The sensory procedure that considers only one part of the stimuli presented at a time is the what? An example of this is participating in the Stroop Test, or looking at a "Where's Waldo" book.

• preattentive process.

• bystander effect.

• attentive process.

• signal-detection process

We rely on ____ when we assume that a steep hill in the distance will not cause the highway we are on to come to an abrupt halt.

• perceptual inference

• perceptual compensation

• subliminal perception

• depth perception

The absolute threshold is the ____ that a person can detect.

• greatest change in a stimulus

• weakest amount of a stimulus

• change in a stimulus

• greatest amount of a stimulus