PSYC111 - QUIZ 1

All are the goals of psychology EXCEPT:

• To know

• To predict

• To control

• To describe

Which of the following is an example of OVERT behavior?

• Laughing

• Daydreaming

• Anxiety

• Fantasies

These pertain to the combined statements about behavior, mental processes, and biological processes

• Psychological theories

• Diagnoses

• Psychological laws

• Code of ethics for psychologists

The intent of this type of research is to find solutions to problems.

• Applied research

• Pure research

• Qualitative research

• Psychological research

A procedure of treating abnormal behavior using interview techniques.

• Psychotherapy

• Anecdotal records

• Counseling

• Exposition

Gustav Fechner was known to

• make psychology a quantitative science

• build the first psychological laboratory

• publish the first psychology book

• use observation as a support in research

He was considered as the "Father of Psychology."

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

• William James

• Erik Erikson

This was influenced by Darwin's theory of evolution.

• Functionalism

• Structuralism

• Behaviorism

• Postmodernism

He believed that learned behavior is behavior that is reinforced.

• B.F Skinner

• Sigmund Freud

• Charles Darwin

• William James

This proposes that people’s lives are influenced by unconscious ideas

• Psychoanalysis

• Social cognitive

• Gestalt

• Humanistic-existential