Exam 1: Introduction to Psychology

A psychologist who conducts experiments in an attempt to discover the basic principles of behavior and mind would be:

Carl Rogers was associated with which of the following schools of psychology:

Pavlov was:

In the 1950s a new approach emerged in psychology that refocused research on conscious experience and mental events.This new approach was known as:

The intellectual roots of modern psychology lie in the disciplines of:

Today, virtually all psychologists accept that psychological characteristics, such as intelligence, emotion, and personality:

A functionalist would argue that to understand how memory works, you first need to know which memory processes are innate and which are modified through experience.

Behaviorism was helped along by persistent attacks on the theory of ____________________, which focused on contributions of inherited traits.

The Practical Solutions section of Chapter 1 describes the results of research on learning and memory.Which of the following statements BEST matches the results of that research?

Maxine is an applied psychologist.While she is at work, Maxine probably spends time:

René Descartes introduced the notion of the:

In the 17ᵗʰ century, the French philosopher René Descartes believed that the ____________________ was the part of the mind that controlled the actions of the mechanical body.

Anne is a psychologist who is currently collecting data in an attempt to understand how people influence and relate to each other.Anne would most likely be classified as:

Signet Air recently hired a psychologist to help redesign the cockpit of a new aircraft.The goal is to reduce the probability of pilot error in reading the instrument panel.The psychologist the company hired is most likely:

It is likely that:

The first woman to be elected president of the American Psychological Association was:

Which of the following pairings is correct?

The psychoanalytic view in psychology is most clearly associated with:

Advances in technology that allow researchers to create active images of the brain as information is processed have helped to advance psychologists' understanding of:

When did the cognitive revolution occur and what type of change occurred in psychology at that time?