Pretest #1 Questions and Answers

Question 1

Among other things, this field of psychological study examines thinking, learning, memory, and language.

Answer 1

cognitive psychology

Question 2

Psychologists guided by this perspective believe that an understanding of the brain and body is important to understanding behavior.

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biobehavioral

Question 3

The main focus of positive psychology perspective is

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human strengths

Question 4

Psychologists that emphasize how society and culture shape human psychology take this perspective.

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sociocultural

Question 5

In Leipzig, Germany, this man opened the first scientific psychology lab in 1879.

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Wilhelm Wundt

Question 6

Which of the following best describes the psychological movement known as structuralism?

Answer 6

a systematic study of the contents of the mind

Question 7

Functionalism was a psychological perspective that

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focused on purposes and functions of the mind as shaped throughout human history

Question 8

Psychoanalysis is a perspective of psychology most associated with

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Sigmund Freud

Question 9

What did behaviorists such as John Watson believe about psychological science?

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Internal mental states cannot be scientifically observed.

Question 10

10. In his book, the Principles of Psychology, William James wrote that it was more interesting to study

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the functions of the mind rather than its contents