Psyc100 Chapter 1 Test

Front 1

Which of the following theorists is most closely associated with the notion that the subject matter of psychology should be the scientific study of conscious experience?

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Wilhelm Wundt

Front 2

Which of the following reflects the main focus of the school of psychology known as functionalism?

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understanding the purpose of behaviour

Front 3

Which school of psychology suggests psychologists should study only what can be objectively observed?

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behaviourism

Front 4

Which of the following theorists is most closely associated with the notion that unconscious motivations influence our overt behaviour?

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Sigmund Freud

Front 5

Which of the following theorists stated that behaviour is fully controlled by external stimuli?

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B.F. Skinner

Front 6

Which school of psychology emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, and suggests that we have a drive for personal growth?

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humanism

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During World War II, many academic psychologists were needed to serve other roles. Which of the following roles was most likely for a psychologist at that time?

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clinician

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Which of the following would be LEAST likely to be studied by a cognitive psychologist?

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how to shape behaviour with reinforcement

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Which of the following terms is defined as the tendency to view one's own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways?

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ethnocentrism

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Analyze conscousness into it's basic it's basic elements and how these elements are realted

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Structuralism

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careful systematic self observation of ones own conscousness

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Introspection:

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Mental processes involving aquiring knowledge

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cognition

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The widely shared customs, beliefs, values, normls , instituitions and other products of a community that are transmitted socially across generations

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Culture

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The premise that knowledge should be aquired through self obvservation

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empiricism

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Theoritical persepctive that exmaines behavioural processes in terms of their adaptive value for a species over the course of many generations

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evolutionary psychology:

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A school of psychology based on the belief that psychology should investigae the function and purpose of consciousness rather then it's structure

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Functionalism

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A theoretical orientation that emphasizes the unique qualities of humans, especially their freedom and their potential for personal growth

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Humanism

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The branch os psychology concerned with the application of psychological princaples to the work place

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Industriel and organizational psychology

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principle stating heritable characterstics that provide a survival reproductive advnatage are more likely then alternative characteristics to be passed on to subsequent gneerations and thus come to be "selected" over time

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natural selection

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Uses theor and reserach to better understand the positive, adaptive, creative and fulfuilling aspects of human exsistance

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Positive Psychology