Scientific Foundations of Psychology

Quentin has been monitoring what his siblings do when his parents yell at them, and how their actions change. His approach is most in line with what school of psychological thought?

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Psychoanalytical

• Humanistic

• Structuralist

Louisa has been helping clients all day in the facility that she works at. Many clients stay there for months, and sometimes years before they are well enough to leave. She is most likely a:

• clinical psychologist.

• industrial-organizational psychologist.

• psychiatrist.

• psychometrician

• counseling psychologist

George sees his clients for a brief period of time, and mostly concentrates his questions on how their medication is working so he can find out if he should issue them a new scrip or change the milligram dosage he has prescribed. George is most likely a:

• personality psychologist

• clinical psychologist

• psychometrician

• psychiatrist

• industrial-organizational psychologist

Julian believes that everything we do was determined with our personality that we were born with. Thanos believes that we are the sum product of our life experiences. The basic conflict that sums the difference between these two perspectives is:

• nature vs. nurture

• freedom vs. determinism

• dualism vs. monism

• structuralism vs. functionalism

• simplicity vs. difficulty

Brielle is working to increase the productivity of employees during the holiday season at the retail store she is employed by. She is most likely what type of psychologist?

• counseling

• clinical

• psychoanalytic

• humanistic

• industrial-organizational

Tristan tries to understand his world through his senses only, and explains how something makes him feel rather than attempting to record data. He most likely would agree with what school of thought?

• functionalism

• humanistic

• structuralism

• psychodynamic

• evolutionary

This psychological researcher believed that the scientific method should be used to study sensation and perception. He created the first psychological laboratory so that he was able to continue his studies. Who was he:

• Wilhelm Wundt

• William James

• Sigmund Freud

• B.F. Skinner

• John B. Watson

Which of the following studies would John Watson have been likely to support?

• attempting to retrain how a person thinks about when they are afriad

• attempting to control a child's behavior with candy and other rewards and punishments

• attempting to measure if environment can change the innate success of genetic components of a species

• attempting to help a person achieve self actualization through providing them with opportunities to improve themselves.

• attempting to see if childhood trauma really does shape all later behavior in life

Which of the following correctly describes how to randomly select a representative high school population?

• picking every fifth person with a high gpa from schools that are located in southern states

• selecting every other person from every student in multiple high schools around the country

• selecting 50 people from every school in the country with staff input

• selecting 5 students from every middle, elementary and high school through drawing straws

• selecting six students and staff from a lottery system at schools nationwide

Which scatterplot shows the strongest negative relationship between the variables?

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