What is Psychology?
Question 1 (5 points)
Psychologists are interested in people's behavior and their mental processes. Psychologists believe that:
Question 1 options:
behavior is impacted by environment, but not by a person's physical state.
behavior is affected by a person's mental and physical state, but rarely by his or her environment.
a person's physical state, mental state, and his or her genes impact his or her behavior.
a person's physical state, mental state, and environment influence his or her behavior.
Question 2 (5 points)
In recent decades, the public's appetite for psychological information has led to the rise of
pseudoscience, which:
Question 2 options:
promises easy fixes to life's problems and challenges.
is a recently recognized branch of modern psychological study.
focuses on recalling repressed memories.
employs self-improvement techniques based on scientific evidence.
Question 3 (5 points)
Critical thinking involves being able to:
Question 3 options:
wonder, ask questions, define the question in clear terms, and accept the obvious.
examine the evidence, analyze assumptions, and avoid emotional reasoning.
examine the evidence, be curious and ask questions, but accept your own feelings as the best indicator of truth.
, define the question in clear terms, avoid emotional reasoning, and keep the discussion simple.
Question 4 (5 points)
When you make the comment, "I don't know," in the course of a discussion, this indicates that you:
Question 4 options:
have a tolerance for uncertainty.
tend to view issues as either black or white.
are evasive and opposed to further inquiry.
accept your own limited ability.
Question 5 (5 points)
Like today's psychologists, early psychologists sought to describe, predict, understand, and modify
behavior. To gather information, these scholars mainly relied on:
Question 5 options:
conducting precise experiments.
their own intuition.
examining all the evidence.
observing and describing individual cases.
Question 6 (5 points)
__________ was the first person to announce that he intended to make psychology a science.
Question 6 options:
William James
Wilhelm Wundt
Sigmund Freud
Joseph Gall
Question 7 (5 points)
Question 1 (5 points)
Psychologists are interested in people's behavior and their mental processes. Psychologists believe that:
Question 1 options:
behavior is impacted by environment, but not by a person's physical state.
behavior is affected by a person's mental and physical state, but rarely by his or her environment.
a person's physical state, mental state, and his or her genes impact his or her behavior.
a person's physical state, mental state, and environment influence his or her behavior.
Question 2 (5 points)
In recent decades, the public's appetite for psychological information has led to the rise of
pseudoscience, which:
Question 2 options:
promises easy fixes to life's problems and challenges.
is a recently recognized branch of modern psychological study.
focuses on recalling repressed memories.
employs self-improvement techniques based on scientific evidence.
Question 3 (5 points)
Critical thinking involves being able to:
Question 3 options:
wonder, ask questions, define the question in clear terms, and accept the obvious.
examine the evidence, analyze assumptions, and avoid emotional reasoning.
examine the evidence, be curious and ask questions, but accept your own feelings as the best indicator of truth.
, define the question in clear terms, avoid emotional reasoning, and keep the discussion simple.
Question 4 (5 points)
When you make the comment, "I don't know," in the course of a discussion, this indicates that you:
Question 4 options:
have a tolerance for uncertainty.
tend to view issues as either black or white.
are evasive and opposed to further inquiry.
accept your own limited ability.
Question 5 (5 points)
Like today's psychologists, early psychologists sought to describe, predict, understand, and modify
behavior. To gather information, these scholars mainly relied on:
Question 5 options:
conducting precise experiments.
their own intuition.
examining all the evidence.
observing and describing individual cases.
Question 6 (5 points)
__________ was the first person to announce that he intended to make psychology a science.
Question 6 options:
William James
Wilhelm Wundt
Sigmund Freud
Joseph Gall
Question 7 (5 points)
