Psychology Exam Multiple Choice And
Correct answers
______________ wanted to know how specific behaviors and mental processes help a
person or animal adapt to the environment, so they looked for underlying causes and
practical consequences of these behaviors and processes.
a.) Rationalists
b.) Structuralists
c.) Fundamentalists
d.) Functionalists - ANSWER-D
True or false: Humans use only 10 percent of their brains
a.) false, because humans use 50% of their brains at any given time
b.) false - humans use all of their brains
c.) True
d.) No one yet knows the answer to this question - ANSWER-B
John Watson, Ivan Pavlov, and BF Skinner would have agreed that psychology is the
study of:
a.) behavior
b.) the mind
c.) conscious experience
d.) mental processes - ANSWER-A
Which modern psychological perspective focuses on how people reason, remember,
understand language, and solve problems?
a.) the cognitive perspective
b.) the learning perspective
c.) the sociocultural perspective
d.) the psychodynamic perspective - ANSWER-A
One of the main areas of focus for psychologists from the psychodynamic perspective is
the importance of:
a.) free will
b.) early childhood conflicts and trauma
c.) the proper balance of neurotransmitters in the brain
d.) appropriate role models during childhood - ANSWER-B
In a psychology experiment, subjects listen to a variety of tones presented at different
frequencies and then reflect on the experience, describing what they heard as precisely
as possible. These individuals would have been using the process called
a.) behaviorism
b.) introspection
, c.) hypnosis
d.) Gestalt Therapy - ANSWER-B
Psychologists are referred to as scientists because:
a.) they work with complicated computers
b.) they rely upon sophisticated brain-imaging machines
c.) they base their work on scientific attitudes and procedures
d.) psychology is related to human biology which is an important part of science -
ANSWER-C
Scientific investigation has revealed that the Mozart Effect is
a.) a question that cannot be answered through science
b.) dependent on the age and gender of the child
c.) supported by findings from numerous studies
d.) not substantiated through research - ANSWER-D
The careful examination of what people or animals do in their normal environments is
called
a.) intrusive observation
b.) naturalistic observation
c.) double-blind study
d.) a case history - ANSWER-B
Investigators are most likely to use the case history method when they study
a.) the effects of a drug on behavior
b.) the frequency of certain attitudes in a large population
c.) a rare behavior or an unusual person
d.) two or more independent variables - ANSWER-C
Random sampling of a population is most likely to
a.) produce a representative sample
b.) give the researcher a very large sample
c.) increase the likelihood of finding significant differences between two different groups
d.) increase the chances of the study being published - ANSWER-A
What is the advantage of the experimental method as opposed to the correlational
studies?
a.) an experiment is better suited to studies of unusual individuals
b.) an experiment can consist of as little as one observation of a single individual
c.) an experiment can demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships
d.) an experiment is easier to do and poses fewer ethical problems - ANSWER-C
An experimenter assigned students to three classrooms with different music playing in
each room. Then he tested their ability to memorize poetry. What is the independent
variable?
Correct answers
______________ wanted to know how specific behaviors and mental processes help a
person or animal adapt to the environment, so they looked for underlying causes and
practical consequences of these behaviors and processes.
a.) Rationalists
b.) Structuralists
c.) Fundamentalists
d.) Functionalists - ANSWER-D
True or false: Humans use only 10 percent of their brains
a.) false, because humans use 50% of their brains at any given time
b.) false - humans use all of their brains
c.) True
d.) No one yet knows the answer to this question - ANSWER-B
John Watson, Ivan Pavlov, and BF Skinner would have agreed that psychology is the
study of:
a.) behavior
b.) the mind
c.) conscious experience
d.) mental processes - ANSWER-A
Which modern psychological perspective focuses on how people reason, remember,
understand language, and solve problems?
a.) the cognitive perspective
b.) the learning perspective
c.) the sociocultural perspective
d.) the psychodynamic perspective - ANSWER-A
One of the main areas of focus for psychologists from the psychodynamic perspective is
the importance of:
a.) free will
b.) early childhood conflicts and trauma
c.) the proper balance of neurotransmitters in the brain
d.) appropriate role models during childhood - ANSWER-B
In a psychology experiment, subjects listen to a variety of tones presented at different
frequencies and then reflect on the experience, describing what they heard as precisely
as possible. These individuals would have been using the process called
a.) behaviorism
b.) introspection
, c.) hypnosis
d.) Gestalt Therapy - ANSWER-B
Psychologists are referred to as scientists because:
a.) they work with complicated computers
b.) they rely upon sophisticated brain-imaging machines
c.) they base their work on scientific attitudes and procedures
d.) psychology is related to human biology which is an important part of science -
ANSWER-C
Scientific investigation has revealed that the Mozart Effect is
a.) a question that cannot be answered through science
b.) dependent on the age and gender of the child
c.) supported by findings from numerous studies
d.) not substantiated through research - ANSWER-D
The careful examination of what people or animals do in their normal environments is
called
a.) intrusive observation
b.) naturalistic observation
c.) double-blind study
d.) a case history - ANSWER-B
Investigators are most likely to use the case history method when they study
a.) the effects of a drug on behavior
b.) the frequency of certain attitudes in a large population
c.) a rare behavior or an unusual person
d.) two or more independent variables - ANSWER-C
Random sampling of a population is most likely to
a.) produce a representative sample
b.) give the researcher a very large sample
c.) increase the likelihood of finding significant differences between two different groups
d.) increase the chances of the study being published - ANSWER-A
What is the advantage of the experimental method as opposed to the correlational
studies?
a.) an experiment is better suited to studies of unusual individuals
b.) an experiment can consist of as little as one observation of a single individual
c.) an experiment can demonstrate cause-and-effect relationships
d.) an experiment is easier to do and poses fewer ethical problems - ANSWER-C
An experimenter assigned students to three classrooms with different music playing in
each room. Then he tested their ability to memorize poetry. What is the independent
variable?
