Py101
True/False
Psychology's forerunners relied heavily on empirical evidence - correct
answer ✔false
Credit for founding modern scientific psychology usually goes to ________ -
correct answer ✔Wilhem Wudnt
Early psychologists who emphasized how behavior helps an organism adapt
to its environment were known as ____________ - correct answer
✔functionalists
Anxious people often think about the future in distorted ways - correct answer
✔cognitive perspective
Anxiety is due to forbidden unconscious desires - correct answer
✔psychodynamic perspective
Anxiety symptoms often bring hidden rewards, such as being excused from
exams - correct answer ✔learning perspective
Excessive anxiety can be caused by a chemical imbalance - correct answer
✔biological perspective
A national emphasis on competition and success promotes anxiety about
failure - correct answer ✔sociocultural perspective
, The first field of psychology to ask why people have consciousness? - correct
answer ✔functionalism (William James)
Psychological perspective that emphasizes deep, internal causes of people's
behavior is: - correct answer ✔Psychodynamic perspective (Freud)
Suzanne studies team processes in the workplace. She hopes her research
will make teams more productive and effective. What type of psychology? -
correct answer ✔Industrial/Oganizational psychology
May habe any credential, or none - correct answer ✔psychotherapist
Has an M.D. tends to take a medical approach to emotional problems - correct
answer ✔psychiatrist
Has a Ph.D., Psy.D, or Ed.D. and does research on, or psychotherapy for
mental health problems - correct answer ✔clinical psychologist
HAs advanced degree usually a Ph.D. and does applied or basic research -
correct answer ✔research psychologist
Trained in a therapeutic approach started by Freud - correct answer
✔psychoanalyst
Describe how the guidelines to critical thinking were violated:
For years, Norman cousins told how he had cured himself of a rare, life
threatening disease through a combination of humor and vitamins. In a best-
selling book, he recommended the same approach to others - correct answer
✔oversimplified. argued by anecdote instead of examining evidence from
controlled studies that included people who were not helped by humor and
True/False
Psychology's forerunners relied heavily on empirical evidence - correct
answer ✔false
Credit for founding modern scientific psychology usually goes to ________ -
correct answer ✔Wilhem Wudnt
Early psychologists who emphasized how behavior helps an organism adapt
to its environment were known as ____________ - correct answer
✔functionalists
Anxious people often think about the future in distorted ways - correct answer
✔cognitive perspective
Anxiety is due to forbidden unconscious desires - correct answer
✔psychodynamic perspective
Anxiety symptoms often bring hidden rewards, such as being excused from
exams - correct answer ✔learning perspective
Excessive anxiety can be caused by a chemical imbalance - correct answer
✔biological perspective
A national emphasis on competition and success promotes anxiety about
failure - correct answer ✔sociocultural perspective
, The first field of psychology to ask why people have consciousness? - correct
answer ✔functionalism (William James)
Psychological perspective that emphasizes deep, internal causes of people's
behavior is: - correct answer ✔Psychodynamic perspective (Freud)
Suzanne studies team processes in the workplace. She hopes her research
will make teams more productive and effective. What type of psychology? -
correct answer ✔Industrial/Oganizational psychology
May habe any credential, or none - correct answer ✔psychotherapist
Has an M.D. tends to take a medical approach to emotional problems - correct
answer ✔psychiatrist
Has a Ph.D., Psy.D, or Ed.D. and does research on, or psychotherapy for
mental health problems - correct answer ✔clinical psychologist
HAs advanced degree usually a Ph.D. and does applied or basic research -
correct answer ✔research psychologist
Trained in a therapeutic approach started by Freud - correct answer
✔psychoanalyst
Describe how the guidelines to critical thinking were violated:
For years, Norman cousins told how he had cured himself of a rare, life
threatening disease through a combination of humor and vitamins. In a best-
selling book, he recommended the same approach to others - correct answer
✔oversimplified. argued by anecdote instead of examining evidence from
controlled studies that included people who were not helped by humor and
