The study of mental processes such as thinking, perception, information, processing, etc. is a key element in psychology.

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

Which area in psychology would be most likely to study the phenomenon of “peer influence”?

A. Social
B. Comparative
C. Physiological
D. School

Psychology is: _____________?

A. The study of human origins evolution, and cultures
B. The scientific study of behavior and mental processes of any living creature.
C. A natural science integrating physiology and neurology
D. The deductive study of forms and functions of human group

Behaviorism helped make psychology a __________?

A. Fad
B. Science
C. Specialty
D. Hoax

Of the following who was structuralist?

A. B.f. skinner
B. John watson
C. Wihelm wundt
D. William james

Which of the following approaches has the most optimistic view of human nature?

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

The tendency to view one’s own group as superior to others and as the standard for judging the worth of foreign ways is know as: _____________?

A. Behaviorism
B. Ethnocentrism
C. Humanism
D. Functionalism

The fact that psychologists do not all agree about the nature and development of personality demonstrates:

A. That there are many ways of looking at the same phenomenon
B. The fundamental inability of psychologists to work together in developing a single theory.
C. The failure of psychologists to communicate with one another.
D. The possibility that personality may simply be incomprehensible.

A multifactorial causation approach to behavior suggests that ____________?

A. Most behaviors can be explained best by single-cause explanations.
B. Data must be subjected rigorous statistical analysis in order to make sense.
C. Explanations of behavior tend to build up from the simple to the complex in a hierarchical manner
D. Most behavior is governed by a complex network of interrelated factors

In regard to changing to changing answers multiple-choice tests, research indicates that changes tend to be more common than other types of changes.

A. Wrong to right
B. Right to wrong
C. Wrong to wrong
D. None of these