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1
Dr. Neanda Thall treated her patients by chipping a hole in her patient's skull with a crude instrument to allow evil spirits to escape from the person's body. This procedure is called:
A)trephining.
B)phrenology.
C)introspection.
D)scalp massage therapy.
2
Ifeela Notsogood went to a doctor to seek relief from certain personality problems. Her doctor, Dr. Ima Quack, started to feel for bumps on her head to determine her personality characteristics. Dr. Quack was practicing:
A)trephining.
B)phrenology.
C)introspection.
D)scalp massage therapy.
3
The formal beginning of psychology as a scientific discipline is generally considered to have occurred when:
A)Aristotle wrote a book containing many of the psychological principles found in this text.
B)John Locke suggested that people are born with a mind which is a blank slate upon which experience will determine their behavior.
C)Rene Descartes proposed that some knowledge was inborn in humans.
D)Wilhelm Wundt established the first experimental laboratory devoted to psychological phenomena.
4
Touchie Feelie participated in a psychological study where he was asked to look at a bright orange ball and then describe in detail what he was experiencing. This procedure is called:
A)trephining.
B)phrenology.
C)introspection.
D)stream of consciousness.
5
Dr. Investa Gator is trying to discover how fear prepares subjects to deal with unexpected loud noises in a dark room in which they are sitting. Dr. Gator is a(n):
A)phrenologist.
B)structuralist.
C)functionalist.
D)Gestaltist.
6
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts" would be said by a psychologist from which psychological perspective?
A)structuralism
B)functionalism
C)Gestalt psychology
D)behaviorism
7
Leta Stetter Hollingsworth:
A)did important work on animal behavior.
B)was one of the first psychologists to focus on child development and on women's issues.
C)studied memory and was the first woman to become president of the American Psychological Association.
D)spearheaded the study of personality traits and became the first woman to head a psychology department at a state university.
8
The _______________ perspective considers how heredity may influence behavior and how the brain and the nervous system affect behavior.
A)neuroscience
B)psychodynamic
C)behavioral
D)humanistic
9
Dr. Whatsa Matta discussed with his client slips of the tongue and the content of his client's dreams to determine what his client was truly feeling. Dr. Matta subscribes to the _________ perspective in psychology.
A)psychodynamic
B)behavioral
C)cognitive
D)humanistic
10
Dr. Knowitall is studying how people take in information, transform it, store it, and retrieve it. Dr. Knowitall is investigating:
A)intrapsychic conflict.
B)classical conditioning.
C)self-actualization.
D)information processing.
11
Psychology is addressing and trying o find solutions to which major societal problem?
A)terrorism
B)economic crisis
C)texting while driving
D)All of these.





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