Practice Test: Psych Prologue

Matching skip

Short Answer skip

1. Imageless Thought
   
2. single variable explanations
   
3. Reactivity
   
4. scientist-practitioner gap
   
5. Forensic psychologists
   

Multiple Choice skip

1. School psychologists
   1. voerlap among different causes of behavior, often make it difficult to identif which cause or causes are operating
   2. thoughts, feelings and observable behaviors all fall within the province of scientific psychology
   3. work with teachers, parents, and children to remed students behavioral, emotional, and learning difficulties
   4. structuralism, functionalimsm, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and cognitivism
   5. explanations that try to account for complex behaviors in terms of only a single cause
2. Black box
   1. caused by many factors
   2. work in prisons, jails, and other settings to assess and diagnose inmates and assist with rehabilitation and treatment
   3. people who can dispense drugs for mental disorders
   4. study why and how ppl change over time
   5. terms sometimes used to describe behaviorists view of the mind, namely, an unknown entity that we don't need to understand to explain behavior
3. Experimental Psychologists
   1. divide between psychologists who belive that clinical practice should primarily be a science versus those who belive that clinical pracice should primarily be an art
   2. use sophisticated research methods, like reation time equipment and high pwoered computers to study the memory, language and thinking of humans
   3. work in prisons, jails, and other settings to assess and diagnose inmates and assist with rehabilitation and treatment
   4. tendency for people to behave differently when they know they're being studied
   5. work with relatively normal people who are experiencing temporary or relatively self-contained life problems, like marital conflict, sexual difficulties, occupational stressor, or uncertainty about their careers
4. Psychoanalysis
   1. psychologists who focus on the assesment, diagnosis, causes, and treatments of mental disorders. most populous subspecialty. can't prescribe medications
   2. people who can dispense drugs for mental disorders
   3. nature-vs-nurture, free will vs determination, mind-body debate
   4. guideline that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior
   5. founded by Freud that focuses on internal psychological processes of which we're unaware
5. Clinical Psychologists
   1. study of the brain and mind
   2. terms sometimes used to describe behaviorists view of the mind, namely, an unknown entity that we don't need to understand to explain behavior
   3. guideline that the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior
   4. psychologists who focus on the assesment, diagnosis, causes, and treatments of mental disorders. most populous subspecialty. can't prescribe medications
   5. structuralism, functionalimsm, behaviorism, psychoanalysis, and cognitivism

True or False skip

1. Psychology
   study of the brain and mind

   True   False

2. systematic observation
   focuses on uncovering the general laws of learning by looking outside he organism

   True   False

3. etic
   approach of studying a culture's behavior from the perspective of an outsider

   True   False

4. Structuralism
   aimed to identify the basic elements or structures of psychological experience. Edward Bradford Titchener. "map" of the elements of consciousness which consisted of sensations, images, and feelings

   True   False

5. Sociotropes
   believe that social factors like parenting practices and culture are most critical for understanding the causes of behavior

   True   False