← Chapter 1: What is Psychology Test
5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- Describe what cognitive psychologists do
- name some prominent women in psychology and their contributions
- How were behaviorism studies conducted
- What are the differences between pyschologists and psychiatrists
- Describe what learning and motivation psychologists do
- a study how behavior depends on the outcomes of past behaviors and current motivations
- b mary calkins was an early memory reasearcher= regarded as Harvards greatest student but had no PhD because she was a women. was president of the American psychological association. today women recieve about 2/3 of the psychology PhDs in the US and Euro
- c studying behaviorists found advantages with studying nonhuman animals to have more control. also nonhuman learning is simplier to understand. studied rates in mazes
- d Studies the processes of thought and knowledge
- e psychologists study systematic behavior and experience while psychiatrists deal with mental distrubances
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- "what can we learn from animal studies about the mechanisms of intelligent behavior? "how did each species evolve the behavioral tendencies it showed?
- An example of how differences in behavior relate to differences in heredity and environment. EX: Why do most little boys spend more time than little girls with toy guns and trucks and less time with dolls?
- idea implied that each species has specializations adapted to its own way of life but also that all vertebrate species have many basic features in common. it also implied that nonhuman animals should exhibit varying degress of human characterists including intelligence
- studies how behaviors change with age
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5 True/False Questions
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Explain the importance of mainting a skeptical stance regarding claims in pyschology and other fields → it is necessary to analyze people's personality from small samples of their behavior
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What is the difference between clinical pyschologists and psychoanalysts → psychologists study systematic behavior and experience while psychiatrists deal with mental distrubances
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Describe industrial/organizational psychiatrists → study peoples behaviors at work
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Describe what evolutionary psycholgists do → Explains behavior in terms of evolutionary history of the species, including reason evoultion might have favored a tendency to act in particular ways
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Descibe the functionalist approach to psychology → William James
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