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.