Exam 1: Introduction to the Science of Psychology

Dr. Allera studies how brain activity is related to depressed and anxious behavior in college students. Dr. Allera probably takes the ____ approach to psychology.​

Dr. Dare works with children who are truant from school. When students attend class, she gives them tokens to be redeemed for candy at the end of the day. Dr. Dare is using the ____ approach.​

"The whole of conscious experience is not the same as the sum of its parts" is a belief proposed by which view of psychology?​

Dr. Mueller is interested in studying eating disorders. Her hypothesis is that abnormal eating behavior is learned through previous successes and failures with restrictive diet programs. She most likely follows which school of psychological thought?​

Imagine you are watching the news with four psychologists, each of whom takes a different approach to psychology (biological, behavioral, psychodynamic, cognitive). After the lead storyends, you ask, "What would make someone do something horrible and violent like that?" How would each psychologist respond to your question?​

The focus on what goes right, on the things that make life worth living, has become known as ____.​

William James believed the focus of research should be on how mental images, sensations, and memories come together as a function of experience. Before him, Titchener believed it was important to define the _____.​

Which research question would be least likely to focus on sociocultural variables?​