True/False Questions

Place a T next to a number that is false and F next to the number if it is false. Each item is worth 1 point. This assignment is worth 30 points.

1. Eighty percent of people aged 18 to 24, believe in UFOs and a government conspiracy to cover up evidence of their existence.

2. About 33% of people have a significant fear of public speaking.

3. Psychology is the science of human behavior and mental processes.

4. Psychology is basically just common sense.

5. Psychology as an independent discipline dates back over 300 years.

6. In the late 19th century, inquiries in philosophy and physiology evolved into psychology.

7. Wilhelm Wundt founded psychology as a separate field.

8. Structuralism was the first psychological field to focus studies on women and minorities.

9. Functionalism was heavily influenced by Charles Darwin.

10. Gestalt Psychology is very much in use today.

11. From the 1920s to 1950s, behaviorism was the predominantly accepted view in academic psychology in the U.S.

12. According to Skinner, the environment plays little role in determining behavior.

13. Before 1975, women received about 50% of all doctoral degrees in psychology.

14. Psychology now trains more women than men.

15. Judith Rodin is known for her work on the topic of eating disorders.

16. Gilbert Haven Jones was the first African-American PhD to teach psychology in the U.S.

17. Francis Sumner is known as the "father of African-American psychology."

18. Humanists see people as inherently good and growth oriented.

19. The biopsychology perspective is also known as the neuroscience perspective.

20. From a cognitive perspective, depression is fostered by characteristic thoughts an individual has about self and situations.

21. The psychoanalytic perspective no longer influences psychology.

22. Positive psychology is a very new, independent concept.

23. If you were concerned with using psychological knowledge to select employees who were most likely to be successful in an organization, you would likely be anIndustrial/Organizational psychologist.

24. Industrial/organizational psychology is concerned with, among other things, how the individual is affected by the work environment.

25. Darwinian concepts form the basis of Positive Psychology.

26. Evolutionary psychologist argue that across time, mate-selection strategies have led to behavioral differences between the sexes.

27. Almost all psychologists are employed in helping people deal with their personal problems.

28. The differences between clinical and counseling psychology are diminishing as the two fieldsare converging.

29. The main difference between doctoral level clinical psychologists and psychiatrists is that clinical psychologists have a PhD and more research training and psychiatrists have an MD and are able to prescribe medications.

30. Clinical psychologists have the ability to prescribe medications.