Exam 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology

Six-year-old Jean hits another child and steals the child's lunch money. A psychologist who takes a psychodynamic approach would suggest that Jean ____.​

Randy is a great football player who would rather be named the most valuable player of the league than have his team win a particular football game. Randy is likely from a(n)____ culture.​

Vicki is working as an educational psychologist. Whatwill Vicki focus on most in her job?​

A guest at a party says that the psychodynamic and behavioral approaches to psychology are quite similar. You disagree and say the behavioral approach stresses ____ while the psychodynamic model emphasizes ____.​

An industrial and organizational psychologist doing cross-cultural work finds that in Australia, the workers have the highest job satisfaction when they are rewarded for accomplishing more and better-quality work than their co-workers. Australia probably has a(n)____ culture.​

Hank the hummingbird has been isolated since birth. When he is released into the company of an attractive female hummingbird, he almost immediately begins the courtship ritual. Hank's behavior shows that ____.​

​Italian Americans living in New York could be said to represent a ____ within the ____ United States.

If you were to study consciousness by having your friends use introspection and report the results to you, your research method would be most similar to that used by ____.​

Mark is trying to teach his dog to sit at his command. To do this, he rewards the dog with a biscuit only if the dog obeys when Mark says "Sit!" Mark is following the ____ approach to psychology.​

Dr. Bashir meets with clients who are dealing with a range of psychological disorders. He discusses strategies for changing behaviors and thoughts and assists his clients in the process of overcoming their problems. Dr. Bashir most likely works in the ____ subfield of psychology.​

In attempting to explain behavior, B. F. Skinner focused on ____.​

Erick is a psychologist who depends on methods and strategies from more than one discipline of psychology. In other words, Erick takes a(n)____ approach to the study of psychology.​

Tom reads an article in the newspaper reporting new research on the link between genes and hostility. He realizes that the researchers were most likely to have adopted the ____ approach in their research.​

Maggie is a graduate student in human factors. She is working with a local grocery store to improve their customer service while reducing costs to the consumers. Most likely, Maggie will ____.​

You are asked to be on a panel of experts investigating the nature of consciousness. While the other experts are content to rely on speculation regarding consciousness, you demand that the evidence be based on experience and observation. Your approach is known as ____.​

A psychologist with a humanistic approach would state that behavior is driven by ____.​

To understand why a problem child behaves as she does, Dr. Saldeen maps out the details of how rewards and punishments shape, maintain, and change the child's behavior. Dr. Saldeen is performing a(n)_____ of behavior.​

Adzure and Anton are identical twins, each born with a special ability. Adzure is able to dispense two aspirin from the bottle without any difficulty. Anton is able to find mates-easily and often. According to natural selection, if all other attributes are equal, who is more likely to survive, and why?​

A commercial tells Mary to "Be all that you can be!" This statement most closely mirrors the philosophy of the ____ approach.​

For her dissertation, Anupama would like to study the effects of culture on driving behavior. She would like to conduct the study in the United States and in India. However, she is advised to be careful with her study because both countries are comprised of many different subcultures. In other words, both of these countries are ____.​