REGIS COLLEGE PSYCH 643 PRACTICE
REVIEW 2026 STUDY GUIDE SUCCESS A+
◉ experimental psychology. Answer: The largest field of academic
specialization in psychology is ________.
◉ study the ability of apes to learn language. Answer: A comparative
psychologist would be most likely to ____.
◉ behavioral neuroscience. Answer: an approach to psychology that
links psychological processes to activities in the nervous system and
other bodily processes
◉ developmental psychologist. Answer: a psychologist who studies
the emotional, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that
occur as an individual matures
◉ personality psychologist. Answer: the study of an individual's
characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
◉ social. Answer: ______ psychologists study the factors that
influence interpersonal attraction, the problem of "groupthink" in
making important decisions, and the reasons why people are often
all too willing to follow orders to harm others.
,◉ clinical psychologist. Answer: a psychologist who diagnoses and
treats people with emotional disturbances
◉ counseling psychologist. Answer: a psychologist who usually
helps people deal with problems of living
◉ industrial/organizational psychologist. Answer: A psychologist
who helps companies hire the most appropriate employees is most
likely a(n) ____.
◉ educational psychologists. Answer: John is a college student who
has decided to become a middle-school teacher. Most of the
specialized courses he takes are likely to be taught by ____.
◉ sports. Answer: Megan is helping a professional athlete to recover
from a serious injury. Megan is a ____ psychologist.
◉ training law enforcement officials to effectively handle spouse
abuse. Answer: A forensic psychologist would be most interested in
which one of the following topics?
◉ environmental psychologists. Answer: Topics such as the effect of
overcrowding and noise on human behavior are studied by ____.
,◉ Peace. Answer: _____ psychologists are particularly interested in
finding ways to reduce tensions that promote ethnic conflicts and
terrorism
◉ descriptive research. Answer: marketing research to better
describe marketing problems, situations, or markets, such as the
market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of
consumers
◉ correlational research. Answer: the study of the naturally
occurring relationships among variables
◉ experimental research. Answer: gathering primary data by
selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different
treatments, controlling related factors, and checking for differences
in group responses
◉ adrenal gland. Answer: What term describes an endocrine gland
that secretes hormones that regulate the excretion of minerals and
the body's response to stress?
◉ The male gonads, which secrete hormones that regulate the
development of the male reproductive system and secondary sex
characteristics. Answer: What characteristic describes the testes?
, ◉ nervous system. Answer: What term describes the chief means of
communication in the body?
◉ The division of the peripheral nervous system that sends
messages from the sensory organs to the central nervous system and
messages from the central nervous system to the skeletal muscles.
Answer: Which of the following characteristics relates to the somatic
nervous system?
◉ The structure of the central nervous system that is located in the
skull and plays important roles in sensation, movement, and
information processing. Answer: Which of the following
characteristics relates to the brain?
◉ gonads. Answer: What name is given to the male and female sex
glands?
◉ A bundle of axons that conveys information to or from the central
nervous system. Answer: What best describes a nerve?
◉ spinal cord. Answer: Which of the following refers to the structure
of the central nervous system that is located in the spine and plays a
role in bodily reflexes and in communicating information between
the brain and the peripheral nervous system?
REVIEW 2026 STUDY GUIDE SUCCESS A+
◉ experimental psychology. Answer: The largest field of academic
specialization in psychology is ________.
◉ study the ability of apes to learn language. Answer: A comparative
psychologist would be most likely to ____.
◉ behavioral neuroscience. Answer: an approach to psychology that
links psychological processes to activities in the nervous system and
other bodily processes
◉ developmental psychologist. Answer: a psychologist who studies
the emotional, cognitive, biological, personal, and social changes that
occur as an individual matures
◉ personality psychologist. Answer: the study of an individual's
characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
◉ social. Answer: ______ psychologists study the factors that
influence interpersonal attraction, the problem of "groupthink" in
making important decisions, and the reasons why people are often
all too willing to follow orders to harm others.
,◉ clinical psychologist. Answer: a psychologist who diagnoses and
treats people with emotional disturbances
◉ counseling psychologist. Answer: a psychologist who usually
helps people deal with problems of living
◉ industrial/organizational psychologist. Answer: A psychologist
who helps companies hire the most appropriate employees is most
likely a(n) ____.
◉ educational psychologists. Answer: John is a college student who
has decided to become a middle-school teacher. Most of the
specialized courses he takes are likely to be taught by ____.
◉ sports. Answer: Megan is helping a professional athlete to recover
from a serious injury. Megan is a ____ psychologist.
◉ training law enforcement officials to effectively handle spouse
abuse. Answer: A forensic psychologist would be most interested in
which one of the following topics?
◉ environmental psychologists. Answer: Topics such as the effect of
overcrowding and noise on human behavior are studied by ____.
,◉ Peace. Answer: _____ psychologists are particularly interested in
finding ways to reduce tensions that promote ethnic conflicts and
terrorism
◉ descriptive research. Answer: marketing research to better
describe marketing problems, situations, or markets, such as the
market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of
consumers
◉ correlational research. Answer: the study of the naturally
occurring relationships among variables
◉ experimental research. Answer: gathering primary data by
selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different
treatments, controlling related factors, and checking for differences
in group responses
◉ adrenal gland. Answer: What term describes an endocrine gland
that secretes hormones that regulate the excretion of minerals and
the body's response to stress?
◉ The male gonads, which secrete hormones that regulate the
development of the male reproductive system and secondary sex
characteristics. Answer: What characteristic describes the testes?
, ◉ nervous system. Answer: What term describes the chief means of
communication in the body?
◉ The division of the peripheral nervous system that sends
messages from the sensory organs to the central nervous system and
messages from the central nervous system to the skeletal muscles.
Answer: Which of the following characteristics relates to the somatic
nervous system?
◉ The structure of the central nervous system that is located in the
skull and plays important roles in sensation, movement, and
information processing. Answer: Which of the following
characteristics relates to the brain?
◉ gonads. Answer: What name is given to the male and female sex
glands?
◉ A bundle of axons that conveys information to or from the central
nervous system. Answer: What best describes a nerve?
◉ spinal cord. Answer: Which of the following refers to the structure
of the central nervous system that is located in the spine and plays a
role in bodily reflexes and in communicating information between
the brain and the peripheral nervous system?
