Test Bank for Essentials of Understanding Psychology 11th Edition by Feldman

Test Bank for Essentials of Understanding Psychology 11th Edition by Feldman


Chapter 01: Introduction to Psychology




Multiple Choice Questions


1.

Psychology is defined as the:



A.
intuition-based approach to study human behavior.



B.
Speculative method to find answers about human cognition.



C.
Study of mental disorders and their treatment.



D.
Scientific study of behavior and mental processes.




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,2.

Akira has declared psychology as his major. He will be studying:



A.
Internal medicine.



B.
Behavior and mental processes.



C.
Mental disorders and their diagnosis and treatment.



D.
The disorders of the central nervous system.




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,3.

A single-sentence definition of psychology may be misleading because:



A.
It is very difficult to study them in and behavior scientifically.



B.
Psychology is a narrower, more specific field than a general definition might suggest.



C.
Psychologists disagree on how broad psychology should really be.



D.
The discipline of psychology really has no core or center.




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, 4.

Which of the following is NOT one of the goals of psychology?



A.
Obfuscation



B.
Description



C.
Prediction



D.
Explanation




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