Approaches to Psychology - The Field of Psychology

Physiology is:

• normal physical activities

• conscious level activities

• research through long term methods

• the study of behavior

Cognitive thinking is:

• normal physical activities

• conscious intellectual activities

• the study of behavioral and mental processes

• the ability to solve immediate problems

Which of the following is NOT a goal of psychology

• acquire information

• study

• prescribe medicine

• predict

What is research done through long-term studies?

• physiological processes

• cognitive processes

• applied science

• basic science

What are psychologies that use principles to solve real and immediate problems?

• physiological processes

• cognitive processes

• applied science

• basic science

What kind of psychologist has an interest in the basic elements of the human experience?

• structuralists

• behaviorists

• psychoanalysts

• humanists

Who set up the first psychological lab in Europe in the 1880s?

• Abraham Maslow

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Sigmund Freud

• Noam Chomsky

The empirical sciences are mainly concerned with:

• empirical science are not involved in psychology

• science based knowledge and observation that uses historical patterns

• science based knowledge and observation that uses math tools

• science based knowledge and observation that uses predictions