1. Biological Foun- The study of brain systems (Unit: Brains, Bodies, and
dations Behavior) and sensory processes (Unit: Sensing & Per-
ceiving) are examples of what general theme?
Potential and dysfunction
Biological foundations
Change
2. Potential and Mental health psychologists are most likely to be con-
dysfunction cerned with which of the following topics?
Potential and dysfunction
Mental processes
Self and others
3. Mental health A counseling psychologist is most likely to be working in
which of these general areas?
Applied psychology
Basic research
Mental health
4. basic research to A psychologist has been working in a university for 15
applied psychol- years and has an opportunity to work with a technology
ogy company that is just getting popular. She decides to go
for the money and work for the company. She has moved
from .
applied psychology to basic research
basic research to applied psychology
applied psychology to mental health
5. nature versus A psychologist's research focuses on whether a person's
nurture personality is determined by the genes inherited from
parents or by childhood and adolescent experiences. This
type of research is attempting to answer the question of
.
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mind versus body
automatic versus controlled processing
differences versus similarities
nature versus nurture
6. What is the rec- Which question about the mind versus body controversy
iprocal relation- MOST represents today's research by psychologists?
ship between the
mind and the Are the functions of the mind separate from actions of the
body? body?
Is the body a physical entity and the mind a nonphysical
mysterious entity that controls the body?
What is the reciprocal relationship between the mind and
the body?
Do our emotions originate entirely in the body?
7. Differences ver- You are interested in studying the parenting skills of Amer-
sus similarities icans and Europeans. As a psychologist, your research is
attempting to answer which enduring question?
Nature versus nurture
Automatic versus controlled processing
Differences versus similarities
Mind versus body
8. Greek philoso- The field of psychology originated with the
phers such as .
Plato and Aristo-
tle English philosophers such as John Locke
French philosophers such as Rene Descartes
Austrian physicians such as Sigmund Freud
Greek philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle
9. Wilhelm Wundt Psychology made the transition from philosophy to a sci-
founded the entific discipline with which event?
first psychologi-