1. "I am primarily interested in thinking processes; I am a __________ psychologist."
a. cognitive
b. learning
c. perception
d. personality
2. Like Carl Rogers, I believe people choose to live more creative and meaningful lives. My name is
a. Wertheimer.
b. Washburn.
c. Skinner.
d. Maslow.
3. Comparative psychologists are primarily interested in
a. stimulus-response connections.
b. animal behavior.
c. the comparison of functional and behavioral psychology.
d. the comparison of different types of psychotherapy.
4. Of the following, who is associated with the Gestalt school of psychology?
a. Ivan Pavlov
b. B. F. Skinner
c. Max Wertheimer
d. John Watson
5. Of the following, who is a humanistic psychologist?
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Abraham Maslow
c. B. F. Skinner
d. John Watson
6. Which of the following represents an empirical statement?
a. Government experts agree that a future downturn in the economy is likely.
b. The temperature today is higher than it was a year ago today.
c. IQ is defined as mental age, divided by age in years, times 100.
d. Grandmothers know best.
7. Freud believed that all thoughts and actions are determined by
a. the first year of life.
b. forces in the personality that are often unconscious.
c. needs for love and self-esteem.
d. the drive for self-actualization.
8. The largest area of specialization among psychologists is
a. industrial and organizational.
b. experimental, physiological, and comparative.
c. social and personality.
d. clinical and counseling.
9. The term cognition refers to
a. predicting the future.
b. analysis and synthesis.
c. thinking or knowing.
d. introspection.
10. Barbara is applying conditioning principles to teach language skills to retarded children. As a psychologist, her point of view appears to be
a. Freudian.
b. Gestalt.
c. functionalist.
d. behaviorist.
11. Strict behaviorists were criticized for overlooking the role that __________ plays in our lives.
a. reward
b. thinking
c. punishment
d. stimuli
12. A psychologist who is "eclectic" can best be described as
a. rejecting determinism in favor of free will.
b. cognitive rather than behavioral.
c. drawing from many psychological approaches.
d. preferring pseudo-psychological approaches.
13. The study of mental processes such as thinking, perception, information processing, etc. is a key element in __________ psychology.
a. humanistic
b. cognitive
c. behavioral
d. biological
14. Overt behavior is
a. anything a person does.
b. only those things a person does which you can see.
c. only those things which can be recorded by a camera.
d. only those things which a person can see with his/her senses.