Quiz questions from chapter 1 and 2

Question 1

By testing their predictions with the observational methods of science, psychologists are most clearly relying on

Answer 1

an empirical approach

Question 2

Women now earn most psychology doctorate degrees in all of the following places EXCEPT

Answer 2

China

Question 3

Research has found that there are ________ differences in the content of dreams, emotional expressiveness, risk for depression, and risk for eating disorders.

Answer 3

gender

Question 4

Basic research on persistent human traits, such as outgoing and reserved, is most characteristic of the specialty known as ________ psychology.

Answer 4

personality

Question 5

William James admitted ________ into his graduate seminar over the objections of Harvard’s president.

Answer 5

Mary Calkins

Question 6

Which perspective is most relevant to understanding the links between brain chemistry and achievement motivation?

Answer 6

neuroscience

Question 7

What did Skinner study?

Answer 7

rejected introspection and studied how consequences shape behaviour

Question 8

Which lobe of the cerebral cortex is most directly involved in controlling the facial muscle movements necessary for speaking?

Answer 8

frontal