FORMAT
30 multiple choice questions (90 points)
1 open-ended question (10 points)
1) Know and understand the various schools of
thought below. Be able to pick out
examples that represent each of the following schools.
A) Psychoanalysis
B) Humanism
C) Biopsychology
D) Gestalt Psychology
E) Behaviorism
2) Evolutionary psychology seeks to explain
what?
3)
Which professionals generally have the most extensive training in the
diagnosis and treatment of mental, behavioral, and emotional problems?
4) B.F. Skinner thought the causes of almost all
behavior could be found where?
5) Who was the first person to establish
psychology as a separate field?
6)
What is psychology?
7)
Which of the following is considered psychology's greatest strength,
according to the text?
8)
According to Freud, what part of mind most controls behavior.
9) What do behaviorists focus
primarily on?
10) What was the essential subject of
structuralism?
11) Which kind of mental health providers are
most associated with Freud?
12What is a Freudian slip? Be able to provide an example.
13) Which kinds of services might a school
psychologist provide?
14) Which school of thought would be concerned
with how you perceive text in a web-based learning program, and how that
perception would affect your performance?
15) About what percentage of full-time faculty in
psychology are female?
16) What is Gestalt Psychology? What phrase best describes what it is all
about?
17) What percentage of adults in the U.S. experience
depression at some point in life?
18) Gestalt Psychology's main approach was to
study the ________.
19) Which kind or kinds of mental health
professions requires an M.D.?
20) Psychologists with a cognitive perspective would
be most likely to study what kinds of things?
21) What did John Watson say should be the
subject of psychology?
22) Psychology is ?
23) Latinos/Latinas earn what percentage of
psychology doctoral degrees in the U.S.?
24) What is the main difference between
functionalism and structuralism?
25) Psychologists are likely to have which of degrees?
26) Freud developed what type of therapy to help
people with mental problems?
27) What types of issues does psychology
typically deal with?
28) What do cognitive psychologists feel is the
cause of behavior?
29) You are seen by a psychologist who is only
interested in your actions and their consequences. S/he thinks that your
environment controls much of what you do.
This psychologist represents what school of thought?
30) What factors are seen as having a negative
impact on women's careers in psychology?
One open ended questions will
be asked.