AP Psych: History & Approaches

Wilhelm Wundt and the structuralists studied questions still asked today primarily by

• behavioral psychologists

• cognitive psychologists

• psychodynamic psychologists

• humanistic psychlogists

• sociocultural psychologists

With which definition of psychology would John Watson and B.F. Skinner most agree?

• Psychology is the science of behavior

• Psychology is the science of mental processes

• Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes

• Psychology is the science of behavior and mental processes specific to contexts

• Psychology is the extension of population

The question, "Is intelligence more influenced by heredity or experience? deals with a big issue in psychology known as

• stability vs change

• mind-body dualism

• rationality vs irrationality

• structure vs function

• nature vs nuture

If Aristotle and Locke, who both believed that we know is acquired from experience, were alive today, they would best agree with the

• behavioral approach

• psychoanalytic approach

• humanistic approach

• biological approach

• psychodynamic approach

Which psychological approach is most concerned with the importance of encoding, storing, and retrieving information?

• information technology

• behavioral approach

• psychodynamic approach

• biological approach

• cognitive approach

Dr. Didden was hired by the TLC Company to help it retain its employees without lowering the firm's profits. After TLC removed cubicles and permitted employees to decorate their workroom as recommended by Dr. Didden, the absentee rate declined and no employees left for jobs elsewhere. Dr. Didden is most likely to be

• a forensic psychologist

• an industrial/organizational psychologist

• a counseling psychologist

• a clinical psychologist

• a engineering psychologist

A cognitive psychologist would likely be most interested in

• concentration of neural transmitters in the spinal cord

• unconditional positive regard in the therapeutic setting

• token economies in prisons

• perceptual speed on word association tests

• development of fine motor skills in toddlers

The concept of tabula rasa or "blank state" (the idea that human beings come into the world knowing nothing, and thereafter acquire all their knowledge through experience), is most closely associated with

• David Hume

• Charles Darwin

• John Locke

• Sigmund Freud

• Erich Fromm

The concept of dualism refers to the division of all things in the world into

• thought and action

• body and spirit

• structural and functional

• theoretical and practical

• dependent and independent

The humanistic approach to psychology emphasizes the importance of

• childhood experiences

• biological predispositions

• maladaptive thoughts

• free will and conscious awareness

• cultural experiences