Unit 1 Perspectives Review

The unconscious mind influences everything we do.

• Biological perspective
• Behavioral perspective
• Cognitive perspective
• Psychodynamic perspective

An imbalance of hormones can contribute to aggressive behavior.

• Biological perspective
• Psychodynamic perspective
• Humanistic perspective
• Cognitive perspective

Anxiety is the result of repressed traumatic childhood experiences.

• Psychodymanic perspective
• Cognitive perspective
• Behavioral perspective
• Biological perspective

Emphasizes that each individual has great freedom in directing his or her future, a large capacity in achieving personal growth.

• Humanistic Approach

• Cross-cultural Approach

• Behavioral Approach

• Psychoanalytic Approach

The debate on the relative contributions of biology and experience to human development is most often referred to as

• evolutionary analysis.

• behaviorism.

• the nature-nurture issue

• natural selection.

Which perspective would agree with the following: "Change your thoughts, change your life"?

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Biological

• Psychodynamic

What famous psychologist is credited with opening the first ever psychology laboratory?

• Sigmund Freud

• Wilhelm Wundt

• John Watson

• B. F. Skinner

Having the patient be self-reflective (looking inward), and training them to report elements of their experience.  

• structuralism
• introspection
• functionalism
• psychometrics

Psychology is defined to as the

• science of mental phenomena.

• science of conscious and unconscious activity.

• science of behavior.

• science of behavior and mental processes.

A psychologist that uses ethnicity, gender, culture and socioeconomic status influence our behavior. 

• behaviorist
• humanist
• socio-cultural psychology
• psychoanalyst