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To practise as a a. are registered with the national psychology board.
psychologist in Australia
there is a legal
requirement that you:
a. are registered with the
national psychology
board.
b. are a member of the
Australian Psychology
Society (APS).
c. have a PhD in
psychology from an APAC
accredited university.
d. have completed a
minimum of four years of
study.
,Which statement b. Psychiatrists can prescribe medication.
describes the major
difference between the
way psychologists and
psychiatrists treat mental
disorders?
a. Psychologists only treat
people with mental
illnesses and disorders.
b. Psychiatrists can
prescribe medication.
c. Psychologists use
medication to treat mental
illness.
d. Psychologists adhere to
the medical model of
treatment.
If you kept a journal of d. introspection.
your conscious
experience—including
sensations, images,
feelings and thoughts—
you would be engaging in
what early psychology
researchers, like Wundt
and Titchener, called:
a. structuralism.
b. empiricism.
c. functionalism.
d. introspection.
,The argument over d. the nature-nurture debate.
whether human behaviour
is learned or biologically
rooted is called:
a. the mind-body problem.
b. Cartesian dualism.
c. Epistemology.
d. the nature-nurture
debate.
What is the main c. A behaviour can be observed; a mental process can
difference between a only be inferred.
behaviour and a mental
process?
a. Mental processes are
more complex than
behaviours.
b. Behaviours can be
analysed; a mental
process cannot be
analysed.
c. A behaviour can be
observed; a mental
process can only be
inferred.
d. Only behaviourists are
interested in behaviour.
, Psychology can be c. the scientific study of mental processes and
defined as: behaviour.
a. the investigation of
conscious and
unconscious mental
processes.
b. the general study of
mental processes and
behaviour.
c. the scientific study of
mental processes and
behaviour.
d. the study of patterns in
culture and behaviour.
Before the 19th century, c. Philosophy.
psychology was similar to
which of the following
disciplines?
a. Biology.
b. Journalism.
c. Philosophy.
d. Theology.
Which individual is often d. Wilhelm Wundt.
credited with establishing
the first psychological
laboratory and
establishing psychology
as an experimental
science?
a. Sigmund Freud.
b. William James.
c. John Watson.
d. Wilhelm Wundt.
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Terms in this set (133)
To practise as a a. are registered with the national psychology board.
psychologist in Australia
there is a legal
requirement that you:
a. are registered with the
national psychology
board.
b. are a member of the
Australian Psychology
Society (APS).
c. have a PhD in
psychology from an APAC
accredited university.
d. have completed a
minimum of four years of
study.
,Which statement b. Psychiatrists can prescribe medication.
describes the major
difference between the
way psychologists and
psychiatrists treat mental
disorders?
a. Psychologists only treat
people with mental
illnesses and disorders.
b. Psychiatrists can
prescribe medication.
c. Psychologists use
medication to treat mental
illness.
d. Psychologists adhere to
the medical model of
treatment.
If you kept a journal of d. introspection.
your conscious
experience—including
sensations, images,
feelings and thoughts—
you would be engaging in
what early psychology
researchers, like Wundt
and Titchener, called:
a. structuralism.
b. empiricism.
c. functionalism.
d. introspection.
,The argument over d. the nature-nurture debate.
whether human behaviour
is learned or biologically
rooted is called:
a. the mind-body problem.
b. Cartesian dualism.
c. Epistemology.
d. the nature-nurture
debate.
What is the main c. A behaviour can be observed; a mental process can
difference between a only be inferred.
behaviour and a mental
process?
a. Mental processes are
more complex than
behaviours.
b. Behaviours can be
analysed; a mental
process cannot be
analysed.
c. A behaviour can be
observed; a mental
process can only be
inferred.
d. Only behaviourists are
interested in behaviour.
, Psychology can be c. the scientific study of mental processes and
defined as: behaviour.
a. the investigation of
conscious and
unconscious mental
processes.
b. the general study of
mental processes and
behaviour.
c. the scientific study of
mental processes and
behaviour.
d. the study of patterns in
culture and behaviour.
Before the 19th century, c. Philosophy.
psychology was similar to
which of the following
disciplines?
a. Biology.
b. Journalism.
c. Philosophy.
d. Theology.
Which individual is often d. Wilhelm Wundt.
credited with establishing
the first psychological
laboratory and
establishing psychology
as an experimental
science?
a. Sigmund Freud.
b. William James.
c. John Watson.
d. Wilhelm Wundt.
