Psychology Perspectives

The __________________ perspective focuses on how unconscious drives and experiences shape our development.

This perspective focuses on how the body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensations.

• psychodynamic perspective

• cognitive perspective

• biological

  perspective

• socio-cultural perspective

Which perspective looks at the disguised effects of unfulfilled wishes and childhood traumas.

• evolutionary perspective

• psychodynamic perspective

• social-cultural perspective

• behavioral perspective

Which perspective would say human behavior is a result of survival of the fittest.

• Behavioral

• Evolutionary

• Cognitive

• Humanistic

How the natural selection of traits passed down through generations has promoted the survival of one's genes.

• socio-cultural perspective

• cognitive perspective

• evolutionary perspective

• behavioral perspective

This type of psychologist would focus on how information is learned and remembered.

• Cognitive

• Behavioral

• Humanistic

• Biological

Your brain, body, and genes make you who you are according to which perspective?

• Behavioral

• Biological

• Humanistic

• Psychodynamic

This perspective emphasizes what goes on in a person’s head and their thought processes.

• Cognitive

• Behavioral

• Humanistic

• Neuroscience

Which perspective believed psychology should emphasize the potential for growth of each human being and an individual’s freedom to make their own decisions?

• Biological

• Humanistic

• Psychodynamic

• Behavioral

A child shows abnormal aggressive behaviors and tendencies.

Which perspective would analyze how the child’s environment has reinforced and supported these aggressive behaviors and ask 

"Are the parents punishing the behavior or just letting it go?"

• Humanistic

• Behavioral

• Cognitive

• Evolutionary