Exam 1: The Science of Psychology

Which of the following psychologists are most closely associated with humanistic psychology?

Which of the following phenomena would likely be studied by social psychologists?

Dr.Leleux asserts that psychologists should attempt to isolate the fundamental attributes of mental experience.Dr.Leleux appears most sympathetic to the _____ school of thought in psychology.

Dualism is the idea that:

This area of psychology studies how shared ideas and behaviors are passed from one generation to the next:

Which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following is the best definition of psychological science?

Your text describes a study by Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998)in which participants rated a confederate of the experimenter as warmer when they held a cup of hot coffee than when they held a cup of iced coffee.How does your text interpret this result?

Psychological science is the study of:

Dr.Scott investigates potential associations between,on the one hand,cultural norms regarding the expression of emotion and,on the other hand,neural responses to insincere or deceptive emotional expressions.Dr.Scott's work reflects the multidisciplinary field of:

Recall your text's discussion of the cognitive approach in psychology.During which decade did cognitive neuroscience become an influential field in cognitive psychology?

Allanah has declared psychology as her major.Which of the following alternatives best identifies what Allanah will study?

Which of the following statements best summarizes the role of culture in shaping behaviors?

Which cultural group is most likely to focus on single elements of the foreground in an image rather than on the entire image?

Psychologist Wolfgang Köhler's problem solving experiment with the chimpanzee,the banana,and the box was important because it:

Psychology developed into a discipline in:

Which of the following characteristics is a hallmark of a good scientist?

Which of the following developments was most important in the rise of the cognitive approach in psychology?

The first woman officially granted a Ph.D.in psychology was:

The fact that a variety of thoughts come to mind even as you are engaged in the activity of taking this exam exemplifies psychologist William James's concept of: