PSY 2012 CHAPTERS 1-4 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS
\.The scientific study of behavior and mental processes is? - ANSWERS✔-
Psychology
\.The subfield of psychology that mainly examine how the brain and the nervous
system-but other biological processes as well-determine behavior is? -
ANSWERS✔-Behavioral neuroscience; an example is that they may link btw
specific sites in the brain and the muscular tremors of people affected by
Parkinson's disease or attempt to determine how our emotions are related to
physical sensations.
\.The branch of psychology that studies the processes of sensing, perceiving,
learning, and thinking about the world is? - ANSWERS✔-Experimental psychology.
\.What focuses on higher mental processes, including thinking, memory,
reasoning, problem solving, judging, decision making, and language? -
ANSWERS✔-Cognitive psychology.
\.Studies how people grow and change from the moment of conception through
death? - ANSWERS✔-Developmental psychology.
,\.Focuses on the consistency in people's behavior over time and the traits that
differentiate one person from another? - ANSWERS✔-Personality psychology.
\.What explores the relationship btw psychological factors and physical ailments
or disease? - ANSWERS✔-Health psychology.
\.Deals with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders? -
ANSWERS✔-Clinical psychology.
\.Focuses primarily on educational, social, and career adjustment problems? -
ANSWERS✔-Counseling psychology.
\.The study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others?
- ANSWERS✔-Social psychology.
\.Investigates the similarities and differences in psychological functioning in and
across various cultures and ethnic groups? - ANSWERS✔-Cross-cultural
psychology.
\.Considers how behavior is influenced by our genetic inheritance from our
ancestors? - ANSWERS✔-Evolutionary Psychology.
,\.Seeks to understand how we might inherit certain behavioral traits and how the
environment inlfuences whether we actually display such traits? - ANSWERS✔-
Behavioral genetics.
\.Unites the areas of neuroscience and clinical psychology: It focuses on the origin
of psychological disorders in biological factors? - ANSWERS✔-Clinical
neuropsychology.
\.What are employed in a variety of settings? - ANSWERS✔-Psychologists; Many
doctoral-level psychologists are employed by institutions of higher learning
(universities and colleges) or are self-employed, usual working as private
practitioners treating clients. Other work sites include hospitals, clinics, mental
health centers, counseling centers, government human-services organizations,
businesses, schools, and even prisons. Psychologists are employed in the military,
working with soldiers, veterans, and their families, and they work for the federal
government Department of Homeland Security, fighting terrorism.
\.Most psychologists have a? - ANSWERS✔-Doctorate, either a PhD (doctor of
philosophy) or, less frequently, a PsyD (doctor of psychology). The PhD is a
research degree that requires a dissertation based on an original investigation.
The PsyD is obtained by psychologists who wish to focus on the treatment of
psychological disorders.
\.17th-century British philosopher John Locke believed that? - ANSWERS✔-
Children were born into the world with minds like "blank states" (tabula rasa in
Latin) and that their experiences determined what kind of adults they would
become. His views contrasted with those of Plato and the 17th-century French
philosopher Rene´Descartes, who argued that some knowledge was inborn in
humans.
, \.Structuralism is? - ANSWERS✔-Wundt's approach, which focuses on uncovering
the fundamental mental components of consciousness, thinking, and other kinds
of mental states and activities.
\.Introspection is? - ANSWERS✔-A procedure used to study the structure of the
mind in which subjects are asked to describe in detail what they are experiencing
when they are exposed to a stimulus.
\.The perspective that replaced structuralism is known as? - ANSWERS✔-
Functionalism.
\.Functionalism concentrated on what the mind ______ and how behavior
________? - ANSWERS✔-Does & Functions.
\.Functionalists, whose perspective became prominent in the early ________,
asked what role behavior plays in allowing people to adapt to their environments.
- ANSWERS✔-1900s.
\.Emphasizes how perception is organized? - ANSWERS✔-Gestalt psychology.
\.Instead of considering the individual parts that make up thinking, gestalt
psychologists took the opposite tack, studying how people? - ANSWERS✔-
Consider individual elements together as units or wholes.
QUESTIONS WITH 100% VERIFIED
ANSWERS
\.The scientific study of behavior and mental processes is? - ANSWERS✔-
Psychology
\.The subfield of psychology that mainly examine how the brain and the nervous
system-but other biological processes as well-determine behavior is? -
ANSWERS✔-Behavioral neuroscience; an example is that they may link btw
specific sites in the brain and the muscular tremors of people affected by
Parkinson's disease or attempt to determine how our emotions are related to
physical sensations.
\.The branch of psychology that studies the processes of sensing, perceiving,
learning, and thinking about the world is? - ANSWERS✔-Experimental psychology.
\.What focuses on higher mental processes, including thinking, memory,
reasoning, problem solving, judging, decision making, and language? -
ANSWERS✔-Cognitive psychology.
\.Studies how people grow and change from the moment of conception through
death? - ANSWERS✔-Developmental psychology.
,\.Focuses on the consistency in people's behavior over time and the traits that
differentiate one person from another? - ANSWERS✔-Personality psychology.
\.What explores the relationship btw psychological factors and physical ailments
or disease? - ANSWERS✔-Health psychology.
\.Deals with the study, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders? -
ANSWERS✔-Clinical psychology.
\.Focuses primarily on educational, social, and career adjustment problems? -
ANSWERS✔-Counseling psychology.
\.The study of how people's thoughts, feelings, and actions are affected by others?
- ANSWERS✔-Social psychology.
\.Investigates the similarities and differences in psychological functioning in and
across various cultures and ethnic groups? - ANSWERS✔-Cross-cultural
psychology.
\.Considers how behavior is influenced by our genetic inheritance from our
ancestors? - ANSWERS✔-Evolutionary Psychology.
,\.Seeks to understand how we might inherit certain behavioral traits and how the
environment inlfuences whether we actually display such traits? - ANSWERS✔-
Behavioral genetics.
\.Unites the areas of neuroscience and clinical psychology: It focuses on the origin
of psychological disorders in biological factors? - ANSWERS✔-Clinical
neuropsychology.
\.What are employed in a variety of settings? - ANSWERS✔-Psychologists; Many
doctoral-level psychologists are employed by institutions of higher learning
(universities and colleges) or are self-employed, usual working as private
practitioners treating clients. Other work sites include hospitals, clinics, mental
health centers, counseling centers, government human-services organizations,
businesses, schools, and even prisons. Psychologists are employed in the military,
working with soldiers, veterans, and their families, and they work for the federal
government Department of Homeland Security, fighting terrorism.
\.Most psychologists have a? - ANSWERS✔-Doctorate, either a PhD (doctor of
philosophy) or, less frequently, a PsyD (doctor of psychology). The PhD is a
research degree that requires a dissertation based on an original investigation.
The PsyD is obtained by psychologists who wish to focus on the treatment of
psychological disorders.
\.17th-century British philosopher John Locke believed that? - ANSWERS✔-
Children were born into the world with minds like "blank states" (tabula rasa in
Latin) and that their experiences determined what kind of adults they would
become. His views contrasted with those of Plato and the 17th-century French
philosopher Rene´Descartes, who argued that some knowledge was inborn in
humans.
, \.Structuralism is? - ANSWERS✔-Wundt's approach, which focuses on uncovering
the fundamental mental components of consciousness, thinking, and other kinds
of mental states and activities.
\.Introspection is? - ANSWERS✔-A procedure used to study the structure of the
mind in which subjects are asked to describe in detail what they are experiencing
when they are exposed to a stimulus.
\.The perspective that replaced structuralism is known as? - ANSWERS✔-
Functionalism.
\.Functionalism concentrated on what the mind ______ and how behavior
________? - ANSWERS✔-Does & Functions.
\.Functionalists, whose perspective became prominent in the early ________,
asked what role behavior plays in allowing people to adapt to their environments.
- ANSWERS✔-1900s.
\.Emphasizes how perception is organized? - ANSWERS✔-Gestalt psychology.
\.Instead of considering the individual parts that make up thinking, gestalt
psychologists took the opposite tack, studying how people? - ANSWERS✔-
Consider individual elements together as units or wholes.
