Psychology, Myers 9th Edition |199 Questions|
With Correct Answers.
1). Sq3r
Ans: Survey, Question, Read, Review and Reflect
2). Socrates and plato
Ans: Who believed that the mind was separate from the body,that the mind continued
to exist after death, and ideas were innate?
3). Aristole
Ans: Who suggested that the soul is not separable from the body and that knowledge
(ideas) grow from experience?
4). Descartes and plato
Ans: Who believed in soul (mind)-body separation and wondered how the immaterial
mind communicated with the physical body?
5). Locke
Ans: Who thought that the mind was a tabula rasa, or blank sheet, at birth, and
experiences wrote on it?
6). Wundt and titchener
Ans: Who believed in Structuralism?
7). William james and darwin
Ans: Who believed in Functionalism?
8). Watson and skinner
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, Ans: Who believed in Behaviorism?
9). Structuralism
Ans: An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural
elements of the human kinds
10). Functionalism
Ans: a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral
processes function-how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish
11). Behaviorism
Ans: the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies
behavior without refrence to mental processes. MOst reseach psychologists today agree
with (1) but not with (2)
12). Humanistic psychology
Ans: historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of
healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth
13). Cognitive neuroscience
Ans: the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including
perception, thinking, memory, and language)
14). Nature vs nurture
Ans: controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to
the development of psychological traits and behaviors
15). Natural selection
Ans: the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those that lead to
increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding
generations
16). Neuroscience
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, Ans: how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
17). Evolutionary
Ans: How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes
18). Behavior genetics
Ans: How much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences
19). Psychodynamic
Ans: How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
20). Behavioral
Ans: How we learn observable responses
21). Cognitive
Ans: How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information
22). Social cultural
Ans: how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
23). Hindsight bias
Ans: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen
it."I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon.
24). Overconfidence
Ans: the tendency to be more confident than correct—to overestimate the accuracy of
one's beliefs and judgments. (
25). Critical thinking
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With Correct Answers.
1). Sq3r
Ans: Survey, Question, Read, Review and Reflect
2). Socrates and plato
Ans: Who believed that the mind was separate from the body,that the mind continued
to exist after death, and ideas were innate?
3). Aristole
Ans: Who suggested that the soul is not separable from the body and that knowledge
(ideas) grow from experience?
4). Descartes and plato
Ans: Who believed in soul (mind)-body separation and wondered how the immaterial
mind communicated with the physical body?
5). Locke
Ans: Who thought that the mind was a tabula rasa, or blank sheet, at birth, and
experiences wrote on it?
6). Wundt and titchener
Ans: Who believed in Structuralism?
7). William james and darwin
Ans: Who believed in Functionalism?
8). Watson and skinner
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, Ans: Who believed in Behaviorism?
9). Structuralism
Ans: An early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural
elements of the human kinds
10). Functionalism
Ans: a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral
processes function-how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish
11). Behaviorism
Ans: the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies
behavior without refrence to mental processes. MOst reseach psychologists today agree
with (1) but not with (2)
12). Humanistic psychology
Ans: historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of
healthy people and the individual's potential for personal growth
13). Cognitive neuroscience
Ans: the interdisciplinary study of the brain activity linked with cognition (including
perception, thinking, memory, and language)
14). Nature vs nurture
Ans: controversy over the relative contributions that genes and experience make to
the development of psychological traits and behaviors
15). Natural selection
Ans: the principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those that lead to
increased reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding
generations
16). Neuroscience
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, Ans: how the body and brain enable emotions, memories, and sensory experiences
17). Evolutionary
Ans: How the natural selection of traits promotes the perpetuation of one's genes
18). Behavior genetics
Ans: How much our genes and our environment influence our individual differences
19). Psychodynamic
Ans: How behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
20). Behavioral
Ans: How we learn observable responses
21). Cognitive
Ans: How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information
22). Social cultural
Ans: how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
23). Hindsight bias
Ans: the tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen
it."I-knew-it-all-along" phenomenon.
24). Overconfidence
Ans: the tendency to be more confident than correct—to overestimate the accuracy of
one's beliefs and judgments. (
25). Critical thinking
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