Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

About ________ of the people holding advanced degrees in psychology are clinicians who treat clients having emotional or mental difficulties.

Wundt was the first ________.

William James is noted for founding the ________ school of psychology.

A male who seeks help for depression is told that the way to overcome the depression is to improve his self-esteem and self-expression, to seek out peak experiences and achieve self-actualization. This approach is most similar to that of ________ psychology.

Surveys helped Jean Piaget develop his theory of cognitive development.

Child psychology, adolescent psychology, and lifespan psychology are specialty areas within the field of psychology known as ________ psychology.

Freud was fascinated by ________.

Modern psychologists use techniques based on ________.

A group of psychologists conduct research on basic psychological processes, including learning, memory, sensation, perception, thinking, motivation, and emotion. They are most likely ________ psychologists.

John B. Watson is known for his experiments on the conditioning of dogs.

Existential and humanistic theories have been the dominant forces in American psychology since the middle part of the 20^th century.

In a controlled experiment, the group subjected to a change in the independent variable is called the ________ group.

Expectations by the experimenter that might influence the results of an experiment or his or her interpretation are called ________.

Gestalt psychologists were most interested in ________.

The term "race" refers to ________ heritage.

The most prominent school in contemporary scientific psychology is ________ psychology.

Watson felt that psychologists should study ________.

Each of the following is true of correlational studies except ________.

________ are interested in the workings of the brain and the nervous system.

Women represent about ________ of members of the American Psychological Association.