Psychology is a: _____________?

A. Study of the mind
B. Study of personality and mental illness
C. Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
D. None of these

Which of the following approaches might suggest that forgetting to pick his mother up at the airport was Henry’s unconscious way of saying that he did not welcome her visit?

A. Psychoanalytic
B. Behavioral
C. Humanistic
D. Cognitive

The school of psychology that focused on identifying and examining the fundamental components of conscious experience, such as sensations, feelings, and images was ___________?

A. Behaviorism
B. Structuralism
C. Humanism
D. Psychoanalysis

Which of the following is a statement with which Skinner’s followers would agree?

A. Most behavior is controlled by unconscious forces
B. The goal of behavior is self actualization
C. Nature is more influential than nurture
D. Free will is an illusion.

Which of the following historical events created a demand for clinicians that was far greater than the supply and stimulated the development of clinical psychology?

A. World war i
B. The depression
C. World war ii
D. The korean war

The study of the endocrine system and genetic mechanisms would most likely be undertaken by a: _____________?

A. Clinical psychologist
B. Physiological psychologist
C. Social psychologist
D. Educational psychologist

Psychology’s answer to the of whether we are born or made tends to be _____________?

A. We are born.
B. We are made.
C. We are both born and made.
D. Neither.

Critical thinking skills: ____________?

A. Are abstract abilities that cannot be identified
B. Usually develop spontaneously through normal content instruction
C. Usually develop spontaneously without any instruction
D. Need to be deliberately taught because they often do not develop by themselves with standard content instruction

The best definition of psychology is the __________?

A. Study of the mind
B. Study of personality and mental illness
C. Scientific study of behavior and mental processes
D. None of these

One difference between sociology and psychologists is that psychologist study:

A. Behavior in individuals
B. Biological processes more than psychological processes
C. Religion, philosophy and epistemology
D. Animal behavior rather than group behavior