AP Psychology - chapter 1 - Intro Psychology

Akira has declared psychology as his major. He will be studying

• Internal medicine

• behavior and mental processes

• mental disorders and their diagnosis and treatment

• the disorder of the central nervous system

A single-sentence defintion of sychology may be misleading because

• it is very difficult to study the mind and behavior scientifically.

• psychology is a narrower, more specific field than a general definition might suggest.

• Psychologits disagree on how broad psychology should really be.

• The discipline of psychology really has no core or center

In which of the following scenarios is a scienfic explaination being provided to explain a phenomon?

• when asked if violent video games have an impact in players, Dr. Lee replies that there is substantial empirical evidence to suggest a change in the gamers' behavior.

• When asked if mood influences social behavior, Dr. Sessler replies that he believes that it does.

• When asked if addiction is a disease or a choice, Dr. Smith replies that he knows many addicts and he feels that they have a disease.

• When asked if he can train his mind to not feel physical pain, Dr. farnsworth replies that he focuses on his vrething when he feels pain to increase his tolerance for it.

Dr. Alvarez is currently studying how the degeneration of certain components of nerve cells in the brain leads to lewy body disease. Dr. Alvarez's work is most likely to be part of the ____ subfield of psychology.

• evolutionary

• developmental

• industrial-organizational

• behavioral neuroscience

Which of the following subfields of psychology matches with its description?

• Cognitive psychology examines the relationship between the nervous system and behavior.

• Developmental psychology examines how people grow and change from conception through death

• Experimental psychology explores the relationship between psychological factors and physical ailments or disease

• Clinical psychology focuses on the consistancy in people's behavior over time and the traits that differentiate one person from another

Which of the following subfields of psychology is CORRECTLY matched with a sample topic?

• Bahavioral neuroscince: the infulence of chronic stress on physical health

• Developmental psychology: the effectiveness of drug therapy for obsessive-conpulsive disorder

• cognitive psychology: the influence of an event on people's thining

• health psychology: the role that frustration plays in producing aggression

Which of the following is true of evolutionary psychology?

• It has already led to promising new treatments for psychological disorders.

• It considers how behavior is infulenced by our genetic inheritence from our ancestors.

• It suggests that signifigant behaviors cannot be unfolded automatically as they are wired into the human species.

• it is one of the subspecialties of experimental psychology.

Which of the following branches of psychology focuses on the consistancy in people's behavior over time and the traits that differentiate one person from another?

• Clinical psychology

• Personality psychology

• cognitive psychology

• cognitive psychology

Dr. Ebrahaim is involved in a study that tracks the changes in peer relationships among adolescents between the ages 13 and 17 Dr. Ebrahim is a (n) ____ psychologist.

• cognitive

• evolutionary

• educational

• developmental

As a program manage, Jazmin is required to sit at her computer for long hours working consistanly on similar projects. As a result, she has lost all motivation to perform better. In addition, she has developed a negative attitude toward her coworkers and has stopped contributing to team efforts. To help her become a better employee, Jazmin's manager is likely to refer to her as a (n)

• cognitive psychologist

• experimental psychologist

• industrial psychologist

• health psychologist