Topic 2

Sophia runs a successful business. She wants to improve employee satisfaction and productivity, and optimize the organizational structure. She decides to hire a psychologist for this task. What type of psychologist is she most likely to hire?

• Industrial-organizational psychologist
• Developmental psychologist
• Forensic psychologist
• Clinical psychologist

If a child is facing educational, social, or emotional issues within their school environment. What type of psychologist would work with their teachers and parents to address these issues?

• Developmental psychologist
• Clinical psychologist
• School psychologist
• Counselling psychologist

Ava is struggling with stress due to her demanding job, and Ben is struggling with symptoms of bipolar disorder, they both decide to seek out a psychologist. Which type of psychologist would be best suited to help Ava, and which type would be best suited to help Ben?

• 
  Both should look for a clinical psychologist

• Ava is should look for a counselling psychologist and Ben should look for a clinical psychologist.

• 
  Ava should look for an industrial organizational psychologist and Ben should look for a clinical psychologist.

• 
  Both should look for a counselling psychologist.

What kind of psychologist studies the physiological basis of behavior, including genetics, hormones, and the nervous system?

• Clinical psychologist
• Developmental psychologist
• Cognitive psychologist
• Biological psychologist

Which type of psychologist is primarily involved in assessing, diagnosing, and treating psychological disorders?

• Counselling psychologist

• Developmental psychologist

• Forensic psychologist
• Clinical psychologist

Which type of psychologist works within the justice system, applying psychological principles to legal issues and criminal cases?

• Developmental psychologist
• Industrial-organizational psychologist
• Clinical psychologist
• Forensic psychologist

What is a psychologist conducting experiments to explore fundamental questions about behavior and mental processes is known as?

• Clinical psychologist
• Counseling psychologist
• Developmental psychologist
• Experimental psychologist

What are the dangers of pseudoscience?

• false opportunities, direct harm, inability to think scientifically.

• opportunity cost, direct harm, inability to think scientifically.

• 
  harm, inability to think scientifically, promotes logical fallacies.

• none of the above

What is a conceptual definition?

• A rough concept of a definition.

• How we specify our phenomenon or construct of interest.

• A working definition of what a researcher is measuring.

• A concept of a plan.

Which of the following does NOT describe an operational definition?

• A working definition of what a researcher is measuring.

• Defining a variable in terms of the procedures used to measure or manipulate it

• Convert an abstract, hypothetical, or non-observable construct into things that can be measured.

• How we specify our construct of interest.