Psychology Basic 2

What is Behavior?

• Action

• Reaction

• Covert & Overt Actions

• None of the these

By the 1920s a new definition of psychology had gained favor. Psychology was said to be the science of ---

• mind

• consciousness

• behavior

• philosophy

What is the independent variable, in experimental research?

• variable which nobody controls or changes

• the variable which is measured, to see results of an experiment

• the variable which is manipulated in an experiment

• a variable which describes some durable characteristic of the subject

PET scans...

• have not lived up to early expectations

• often use labeled glucose

• are made by rotating an X-ray machine around a patient's head

• show only brain structures, not areas of activity

What is an axon?

• the dendritic tree of a neuron

• the genetic control center of a cell

• a tube of membrane

• one lane in a "multi-laned highway

The image belongs to .....

• Sigmund Freud

• Abraham Maslow

• Martin Seligman

• Ivan Pavlov

In what way was Freud influential, in the field of personality theories?

• Freud was the first to identify multiple personality

• Freud was the first person to talk about "catharsis"

• Freud's id/ego/super-ego scheme appears in most of today's theories

• most personality theories in the first part of the 20th Century were reactions to Freud

Why did Adler call sublimation "the healthy defense mechanism"?

• it is the result of higher education

• it protects the ego from damage

• it benefits humanity

• it provides a harmless but pleasant change of mood and emotion

Bandura had to teach himself, part of the time, in high school. He said this helped to teach him the power of..

• self-efficacy

• social organization

• reinforcement

• the ego

The image belongs to which of the following?

• Observational learning

• Operant conditioning

• Pavlov's Classical conditioning

• Cognitive schema