Psychology UNIT 1 REVIEW

With only a couple of moments left in class, your professor says, "Next class meeting we will discuss a condition found in very few autistic people where they possess some unusual ability." Since you keep up on the textbook reading, you know that the professor is referring to:

• metacognition

• savants

• ritual behavior

• ADHD

The approach that studies how our genes, hormones, and nervous system interact with the environment to influence behavior and mental processes is:

• biological

• cognitive

• behavioral

• psychoanalytic

Of the following activities, which is most likely to increase palmar sweating?

• public speaking

• crossing out all the "t's" in a newspaper article

• watching a boring movie

• sitting in a warm sauna

In your psych class tomorrow, a guest lecturer will be presenting her research on identifying the areas of the brain that regulate planning leisure activities. She must be a:

• cognitive neuroscientist

• clinical psychologist

• functionalist

• structuralist

You hear a motivational speaker who suggests that people need to modify their environment to change behavior. You detect a hint of which perspective in the speech?

• cognitive

• behavioral

• psychoanalytic

• cross-cultural

The behavioral approach was influenced greatly by the work of who stressed the study of observable behavior and reinforcement and punishment?

• Sigmund Freud

• Abraham Maslow

• Erik Erikson

• B. F. Skinner

Sigmund Freud developed which of the following modern approaches?

• behavioral

• cognitive

• humanistic

• psychoanalytic

Consider this: It is the early 20th century and you are the personal assistant of Sigmund Freud. As you've listen to him speak, you can second-guess what he is about to say. One time, Freud was saying, "Anxiety, fear, and psychological problems are caused by..." and he paused as he thought. You suddenly said to him what would ultimately become a key concept in psychoanalytic thought. What did you say?

• "...unfulfilled human potential!"

• "...imbalance in brain chemicals like serotonin!"

• "Herr Freud, it is unconscious thoughts and feelings!"

• "...excessive rewards and punishments!"

Once we understand the six approaches to psychology, Rod Plotnik advises us to:

• make a personal decision about which approach is best

• combine and use information from all six approaches

• place our trust in the approaches that have stood the test of time

• judge each approach by the famous people who have supported it

John Watson rejected structuralism and stated that psychology should study:

• observable behaviors

• unconscious fears and behaviors

• sensations and perceptions

• introspection