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Which of the following ideas is essential to determinism?

• People who try harder are more

  successful

• People choose their behaviors by free

  will

• Most differences in behavior are under

  genetic control

• Every behavior has a cause

Here are four types of psychologists. Which one is correctly matched to a research area?

• Social Psychologist‐ Evolution of

  behavior

• Developmental Psychologist‐ Child

  behavior

• Cognitive Psychologist‐ How people

  behave in groups

• Biological Psychologist‐ Thought and

  knowledge

According to many, the founder of modern‐day psychology and first ‘psychologist’ was?

• Wundt

• Weber

• Fechner

• Helmholtz

Which topics would behaviorists avoid?

• Stimulus‐response connection

• Animal behavior

• Learning

• Thought and knowledge

Titchener was known as a structuralist because he attempted to

• Define the structure of consciousness

• Structure the behaviors of animals

• Group behaviors

• Structure the body movements

Which field of psychology would attribute behavior to a person's genes?

• Cognitive Psychology

• Psychodynamic Psychology

• Humanistic Psychology

• Biological Psychology

A main philosophical question that dominates the psychology field is human determinism

and free will. Determinism suggests that events

• Have a natural outcome

• Have a natural cause

• Are unpredictable

• Are evident

Functionalism in psychology attempts to understand

• The biological basis of the mind

• What the mind does

• The relation between mind and brain

• What the mind does

The approach that studies how organisms learn new behaviors or change or modify existing

ones in response to influences from the environment is called

• Gestalt

• Behaviorism

• Social learning

• Psychoanalytic

What is the major setting in which the largest percentage of Psychologists work and

establish careers in private practice or where they diagnose and help clients with psychological

problems?

• Clinical Psychology

• Psychiatry

• Academic Research Psychology

• Developmental Psychology