Module 1 Lesson 1 Review

The Scientific Attitude has how many basic attitudes?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Curiosity is a Scientific Attitude where:

• Research commences with the passion to explore and understand the world without misleading or being misled

• Skeptical testing can reveal which claim best matches the facts

• One’s opinions do not matter.

• Sifting reality from fantasy requires a healthy skepticism.

Which one of these psychologists was an early Pioneer of Psychology?

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Charles Darwin

• Ivan Pavlov

• All of them were Pioneers!

This group in psychology believed in the science of mental life.

• Behaviorists

• Freudians

• Early Pioneers

• Cognitive Neuroscientists

The Evolutionary perspective focuses on how the _______selection of traits passed down from one generation to the next has promoted the survival of genes.

Which type of perspective focuses on how behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures?

• Cognitive

• Social-cultural

• Behavioral

• Evolutionary

Which type of perspective focuses on how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts?

• Psychodynamic

• Neuroscience

• Behavior Genetics

• Cognitive

There are how many "Big Ideas" in Psychology?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Contemporary Psychology is the study of

• how our genes and our environment influence our individual differences

• how we learn observable responses

• science and behavior

• how we encode, process, store and retrieve information

Mental processes include thoughts, _____, and feelings.