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You can use this as a study guide for exam 1. The answers highlighted are the correct answers.

Along with
this study guide please use your notes and textbook.

1) What is the definition of Psychology?


a. The study of the mind
b. The study of critical thinking
c. The study of mental illness
d. The study of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.
2) Humans are ___ Psychologists.
a. Intuitive
b. Expert
c. Judging
d. Counterintuitive
3) The study, through research, of the mind, brain, and behavior.
a. Psychological Science
b. Biology
c. Psychology
d. Sociology
4) What does NOT refer to the mental activity (the MIND)
a. Actions
b. Thoughts
c. Perceptual Experiences (sight, smells, tastes)
d. Memories
5) Being a critical thinker involves looking for ___ in the evidence, using logic and reasoning to see
whether the information makes sense, and considering alternative explanations.
a. Holes
b. Science
c. Bananas
d. Brain activity
6) Psychology has its roots in ancient philosophy. _____ was a Chinese philosopher, who emphasized
human development, education, and relationships.
a. Rene Descartes
b. Confucius
c. Leonardo Da Vinci
d. Aristotle
7) The idea that the mind and the body are separate yet intertwined!
a. Mind/Body Problem
b. Nativism
c. Dualism
d. Philosophical Empiricism
8) Plato believed that certain kinds of knowledge are innate or inborn. (NATURE)
a. Philosophical Empiricism
b. Nativism
9) Aristotle believed knowledge is acquired through experience (NURTURE)
a. Philosophical Empiricism
b. Nativism
10)The study of biological processes
a. History
b. Biology
c. Psychology
d. Physiology
11)Which of the following terms correctly matches these definitions?
a. Sensory input from the environment.
b. The amount of time taken to respond to a specific stimulus.
i. Sensation and Reflex time
ii. Stimulus and Reaction Time
iii. Sensory Input and Response Time
iv. Signal and Response Duration
12) Who was the first documented professor to lecture on a psychology course? He also thought that
the stream of consciousness is the product of interactions and dynamics inside our heads, such as
the decision of what to have for lunch, and outside the world, such as the smell of pie down the
hall.
a. James Wiliam
b. Harry Potter
c. Confucius
d. Wiliam James
13) Study how mental abilities allow people to adapt to their environments. (Humans adapt to
environmental demands)
a. Futurism
b. Fruitism
c. Functionalism
d. Darwism
14) The study that seeks to understand, characterize, and treat mental illness. Most common study in
psychology.
a. Clinical
b. Cognitive
c. Cultural
d. Developmental
15) The study that aims to understand the basic skills and processes that are the foundation of mental
life and behavior. Attention, memory, sensation, and perception are within this scope of
psychology.
a. Clinical
b. Cognitive
c. Cultural
d. Developmental
16) Cultural psychology studies how cultural factors such as __________, __________, and _______ can have
significant effects on mental life and behavior.
a. Geographical regions, national beliefs, religious values
b. Weather patterns, political systems, dietary habits
c. Language, clothing styles, economic status
d. Technology, sports, art styles
17) One of the first to develop psychological treatments for psychological disorders is___
a. Sigmund Freud
b. Pierre Janet
c. Taylor swift
d. Jean-Martin Charcot
18) What is the part of the mind that operates outside of awareness but influences conscious
thoughts, feelings and actions.
a. Conscious
b. Hysteria
c. Unconscious
d. Psychoanalysis

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