CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY SCIENCE PRACTICE
AND DIVERSITY ANDREW HIGH YIELD REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ If a psychologist gave one group of rats extra handling and an
enriched environment and deprived a second group of rats, then
measured how quickly each group learned a maze, he or she would
be engaged in:
A. A controlled experiment
B. Correlation research
C. Naturalistic observation
D. Field research.
Answer:
◉ Critical thinkers are willing to _________
A. Look at similarities but not differences in a problem
B. Subject their own deeply held beliefs to scrutiny
C. Accept common knowledge
D. Accept the opinions of stablished experts in a field.
Answer: B. Subject their own deeply held beliefs to scrutiny
, ◉ Which of the following statements is true?
A. Historically, women more often than men have been participants
in psychological research
B. Women still receive less than half the PhDs in psychology
C. Historically, some colleges refused to grant degrees in psychology
to women
D. Women were prevented from joining the American Psychological
Association when it was first formed.
Answer:
◉ Freud's psychodynamic theory emphasized the importance of:
A. Reinforcement
B. Conditioning
C. The unconscious
D. Emotions.
Answer: C. The unconscious
◉ If you subscribe to this school of psychology, you believe that
psychology is the study of what is observable and measurable. This
historical and modern perspective is better known as ______
A. Psychoanalysis
B. Functionalism
C. Gestalt psychology
AND DIVERSITY ANDREW HIGH YIELD REVIEW
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
◉ If a psychologist gave one group of rats extra handling and an
enriched environment and deprived a second group of rats, then
measured how quickly each group learned a maze, he or she would
be engaged in:
A. A controlled experiment
B. Correlation research
C. Naturalistic observation
D. Field research.
Answer:
◉ Critical thinkers are willing to _________
A. Look at similarities but not differences in a problem
B. Subject their own deeply held beliefs to scrutiny
C. Accept common knowledge
D. Accept the opinions of stablished experts in a field.
Answer: B. Subject their own deeply held beliefs to scrutiny
, ◉ Which of the following statements is true?
A. Historically, women more often than men have been participants
in psychological research
B. Women still receive less than half the PhDs in psychology
C. Historically, some colleges refused to grant degrees in psychology
to women
D. Women were prevented from joining the American Psychological
Association when it was first formed.
Answer:
◉ Freud's psychodynamic theory emphasized the importance of:
A. Reinforcement
B. Conditioning
C. The unconscious
D. Emotions.
Answer: C. The unconscious
◉ If you subscribe to this school of psychology, you believe that
psychology is the study of what is observable and measurable. This
historical and modern perspective is better known as ______
A. Psychoanalysis
B. Functionalism
C. Gestalt psychology
