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The fortune teller who studies your palm carefully before announcing that "great fortune lies in your immediate future" is practicing **blank** psychology.
[ "applied", "commonsense", "forensic" ]
pseudo-
To estimate the degree of the relationship between birth order and achievement motivation, a researcher would do a(n) **blank** study.
[ "naturalistic", "inventory", "experimental" ]
correlational
In order to determine the cause of behavior, the questions we ask must be **blank**
[ "tentative", "based on theory", "novel" ]
testable
"I am primarily interested in thinking processes; I am a **blank** psychologist."
[ "learning", "perception", "personality" ]
cognitive
Like Carl Rogers, I believe people choose to live more creative and meaningful lives. My name is **blank**
[ "Wertheimer", "Washburn", "Skinner" ]
Maslow
A psychologist performs the following experiment: she gives subjects photographs of female faces and asks them to rate the attractiveness of each face. However, some of the subjects have just had to take a very difficult math test, while others have taken a very easy math test. The psychologist would probably be a **blank** psychologist.
[ "industrial", "comparative", "developmental" ]
social
A psychologist who studies family dynamics and their effects on behavior of individuals in different regions would probably be a **blank** psychologist.
[ "learning", "developmental", "cognitive" ]
cultural
Barbara is applying conditioning principles to teach language skills to retarded children. As a psychologist, her point of view appears to be **blank**
[ "Freudian", "Gestalt", "functionalist" ]
behaviorist
Strict behaviorists were criticized for overlooking the role that **blank** plays in our lives.
[ "reward", "punishment", "stimuli" ]
thinking
The study of mental processes such as thinking, perception, information processing, etc. is a key element in **blank** psychology.
[ "humanistic", "behavioral", "biological" ]
cognitive
**blank** in psychology would be most likely to study the phenomenon of peer influence
[ "comparative", "physiological", "school" ]
social
If you were to walk into a laboratory where the effects of intense punishment on a rat's ability to form a discrimination was being studied, you would be in the lab of a **blank**__ psychologist.
[ "physiological", "developmental", "social" ]
learning
Maslow proposed a need to develop one's potential and be the best one can be, which he called **blank**
[ "self-image", "self-concept", "self-esteem" ]
self-actualization
Behaviorism helped make psychology a **blank**
[ "fad", "specialty", "hoax" ]
science
You see a psychologist and tell her that you are feeling depressed. The psychologist focuses on those activities you engage in currently around which you feel depressed, and she talks with you about changing these activities and thoughts that make you feel "down" and doing things which make you happy. This psychologist would probably belong to the **blank**__ school of psychology.
[ "humanistic", "psychodynamic", "Gestalt" ]
behaviorist
You see a psychologist and tell her that you are feeling depressed. She talks to you about the goals you have for yourself, about your image of yourself, and about the choices that you make in your life and that you could make in your life. This psychologist would probably belong to the **blank** school of psychology.
[ "psychodynamic", "behavioristic", "Gestalt" ]
humanistic
**blank** psychology is concerned with thinking, language, and problem solving.
[ "Behavioristic", "Psychoanalytic", "Humanistic" ]
Cognitive
The proper use of reward, punishment, and behavior modification are results of **blank**
[ "functionalism", "humanism", "structuralism" ]
behaviorism
Of the theorists listed below, **blank** helped to develop the humanistic approach in psychology
[ "Skinner", "Titchener", "Freud" ]
Rogers
William James wrote Principles of Psychology and founded **blank**
[ "structuralism", "behaviorism", "humanism" ]
functionalism
**blank** focus their work on the attempt to explain all behavior in terms of internal physical mechanisms.
[ "Behaviorists", "Psychoanalysts", "Humanists" ]
Biopsychologists
According to the **blank** view, the need for love, self-esteem, belonging, self expression, and creativity are as important as biological needs.
[ "psychodynamic", "behavioristic", "cognitive" ]
humanistic
Information picked up by the body's receptor cells is termed **blank**
[ "cognition", "perception", "adaptation" ]
sensation
Hearing aids are of no use to an individual with **blank** deafness.
[ "ossicle", "conduction", "auditory" ]
nerve
Information processed below the normal level of awareness is called **blank**
[ "adaptive", "subnormal", "psychophysical" ]
subliminal
The process where the lens of the eye changes shape is called **blank**
[ "plasticity", "adaptation", "regulation" ]
accommodation
The incoming flow of information from our sensory systems is referred to as **blank**
[ "perception", "adaptation", "cognition" ]
sensation
The psychological dimension corresponding to the amplitude of light waves is **blank**
[ "hue", "transparency", "timbre" ]
brightness
**blank** explains the perception of higher sounds
[ "tone", "frequency", "auditory" ]
place
a skin sensation is **blank** of the following
[ "oomami", "olfaction", "gravity" ]
pain
Taste buds sensitive to sweet substances are found primarily on the **blank** of the tongue.
[ "side", "back", "middle" ]
tip
The **blank**__ theory explains that hearing high or low tones depends upon which area of the cochlea is most strongly stimulated.
[ "tone", "frequency", "auditory" ]
place
Sense organs in the joints and muscles contribute to our **blank** sense.
[ "skin", "pressure", "temperature" ]
kinesthetic
The part of the eye that focuses the image is called the **blank**
[ "retina", "iris", "pupil" ]
lens
The scientific term for farsightedness is **blank**
[ "myopia", "retinitis", "astigmatism" ]
hyperopia
Olfaction is another name for the sense of **blank**
[ "taste", "hearing", "vision" ]
smell
According to Weber's Law, if two light bulbs must go out in a room in which twenty are burning to make the room noticeably dimmer, then a room in which forty are burning will become noticeably dimmer when **blank** bulbs go out.
[ "two", "six", "eight" ]
four
The ringing sensation following exposure to loud sounds is called **blank**
[ "olfaction", "anosmia", "gustation" ]
tinnitus
The **blank** theory explains how sounds up to 4000 hertz reach the brain.
[ "place", "auditory", "tone" ]
frequency
When you were in seventh grade, you had to get glasses because you could not see the board at school. Your vision problem is called **blank**
[ "hyperopia", "astigmatism", "presbyopia" ]
myopia
**blank** explains the perception of lower sounds
[ "tone", "place", "auditory" ]
frequency
Film is to camera as **blank** is to eye.
[ "iris", "lens", "pupil" ]
retina
Sensory adaptation is normally most rapid for the sense of **blank**
[ "vision", "taste", "kinesthesis" ]
olfaction
The frequency of a sound determines its **blank**
[ "hue", "intensity", "amplitude" ]
pitch
**blank** is best known for his research on conformity.
[ "Rubin", "Schachter", "Zimbardo" ]
Asch
The degree of attraction among group members relates to the dimension of **blank**
[ "compatibility", "structure", "conformity" ]
cohesiveness
Prejudice based on displaced aggression represents a form of **blank**
[ "projection", "discrimination", "authoritarianism" ]
scapegoating
**blank** attachment style is marked by conflicting feelings of affection, anger, and emotional turmoil.
[ "Mutual", "Secure", "Avoidant" ]
Ambivalent
The study of unspoken rules for the use of interpersonal space is called **blank**
[ "kinesics", "psychoecology", "territoriality" ]
proxemics
The organization of roles, patterns of communication, and power in a group defines the group's **blank**
[ "status", "cohesiveness", "norms" ]
structure
When a person with little or no authority makes a direct request to another person, the situation involves **blank**
[ "obedience", "coercion", "conformity" ]
compliance
Vanessa is female, a daughter, and a young adult. The roles that shape her behavior are called **blank** roles.
[ "achieved", "ascertained", "actualized" ]
ascribed
Sharing your own private thoughts and feelings is called **blank**
[ "self-talk", "autonomy", "introspection" ]
self-disclosure
People who think their ethnic, national, or religious group is superior to others are called **blank**
[ "authoritarian", "dogmatic", "rigid" ]
ethnocentric
**blank** is the process of making inferences about behavior.
[ "Proxemics", "Cohesiveness", "Statusing" ]
Attribution
Expected behavior patterns associated with particular social positions are called **blank**
[ "culture", "stereotypes", "mannerisms" ]
roles
Milgram's shock study showed people to be surprisingly **blank**
[ "rebellious", "intelligent", "sexist" ]
obedient
The chief characteristic of hypnosis is **blank**
[ "heightened arousal", "enhanced creativity", "increased clairvoyance" ]
increased suggestibility
The most frequently used psychoactive drug in the United States is **blank**
[ "marijuana", "cocaine", "alcohol" ]
caffeine
Drug abuse associated with **blank** of the following drugs is correlated with breast cysts, birth defects, miscarriage, and contributes to bladder cancer, heart problems, and high blood pressure
[ "cocaine", "nicotine", "heroin" ]
caffeine
The reduction in the body's response to a drug which may accompany drug use is called **blank**
[ "withdrawal", "addiction", "dependence" ]
tolerance
Freud believed that, in order to protect sleep and prevent the arousal of conscience, the content of our dreams is **blank**
[ "suppressed", "enriched", "synthesized" ]
disguised
Smoked forms of cocaine are commonly called **blank**
[ "meth", "ice", "uppers" ]
crack
Nicotine is classified as a **blank**
[ "narcotic", "depressant", "relaxant" ]
stimulant
Drugs with names like Xanax, Halcion, and Valium are **blank**
[ "barbiturates", "stimulants", "hallucinogens" ]
tranquilizers
Immediately before sleep the EEG shifts to patterns of larger and slower waves called **blank** waves.
[ "beta", "delta", "spindle" ]
alpha
Perhaps the best known hallucinogen is **blank**
[ "cocaine", "alcohol", "nicotine" ]
LSD
**blank** typically has spindles
[ "first", "third", "fourth" ]
second
Short-term drug use based largely on curiosity is called **blank**
[ "compulsive", "situational", "regressive" ]
experimental
**blank** of the following is classified as a stimulant
[ "alcohol", "marijuana", "morphine" ]
cocaine
Many of the chemicals released by a burning cigarette are **blank**
[ "harmless", "unknown", "tetrahydrines" ]
carcinogens
Alcohol is classified as a **blank**
[ "stimulant", "hallucinogen", "barbiturate" ]
depressant
The drug in America that causes the most damage is **blank**
[ "marijuana", "heroin", "cocaine" ]
alcohol
The major link between the brain and the glandular system is the **blank**
[ "pituitary", "CNS", "midbrain" ]
hypothalamus
A person who had difficulty **blank** would be described as having aphasia.
[ "walking", "smelling", "eating" ]
communicating
The **blank** cerebral hemisphere is superior at perceptual skills and detectingand expressing emotion.
[ "left", "cortical", "subcortical" ]
right
An innovative scanning technique that uses magnetic technology to visualize brain activity is called **blank**
[ "PET", "MRI", "CAT" ]
fMRI
There is more somatosensory cortex for the **blank**
[ "shoulder", "feet", "legs" ]
mouth
The sense of smell depends on the **blank**__ lobe.
[ "occipital", "parietal", "temporal" ]
frontal
The **blank** cortex is all areas of the cerebral cortex that are not sensory or motor in function.
[ "aphasia", "Broca's", "agnosia" ]
association
The **blank** gland is involved in the regulation of growth.
[ "pineal", "thyroid", "adrenal" ]
pituitary
The increased size and wrinkling of the cerebral cortex in higher animals is referred to as **blank**
[ "cerebralization", "hemispherization", "reticulation" ]
corticalization
The visual area of the brain is located in the **blank** lobe.
[ "frontal", "parietal", "temporal" ]
occipital
**blank** of the cerebral hemispheres is superior at drawing a picture
[ "left", "subcortical", "mid" ]
right
In most people, the right hemisphere of the brain is in charge of **blank**
[ "language", "logic", "mathematics" ]
art
Destruction of the reticular activating system would result in **blank**
[ "dizziness", "blurred vision", "aphasia" ]
coma
The brain center for audition is in the **blank** lobe.
[ "parietal", "occipital", "frontal" ]
temporal
Jim does not understand algebra, but he's a good artist. Jim's **blank** brain isprobably more fully developed.
[ "left", "mid", "subcortical" ]
right
In psychoanalysis, patients avoid talking about certain subjects. This is called **blank**
[ "avoidance", "transference", "analysis" ]
resistance
In psychoanalysis, an emotional attachment to the therapist that symbolically represents other important relationships is called **blank**
[ "resistance", "identification", "empathy" ]
transference
When a therapist attempts to see the world through the client's eyes and to feel some part of what he or she is feeling, the therapist is using **blank**
[ "authenticity", "reflection", "ego-centering" ]
empathy
Major tranquilizers are also known as **blank**
[ "stimulants", "energizers", "psychoactives" ]
antipsychotics
Humane treatment of the emotionally disturbed was spearheaded by **blank**, who personally unchained inmates at the Bicétre Asylum.
[ "Freud", "Rogers", "Frankl" ]
Pinel
Psychoanalysis is to insight as behavior therapy is to **blank**
[ "motivation", "medical", "understanding" ]
action
Dr. Hochman is a therapist who tries to lend support to clients who are having an emotional crisis and want to solve daily life problems. He most likely practices **blank** therapy.
[ "insight", "action", "directive" ]
supportive
In aversion therapy a person **blank** to associate a strong aversion with an undesirable habit.
[ "knows", "wants", "hopes" ]
learns
A therapist guides a client by giving instructions, interpretations, or solutions, and by making decisions. The therapist's approach can be described as **blank** therapy.
[ "action", "non-directive", "individual" ]
directive
The therapeutic technique of associating a discomfort with a bad habit is based on **blank** type of conditioning
[ "instrumental", "operant", "token" ]
classical
Symbolic rewards used to encourage positive changes in behavior are called **blank**
[ "operants", "chips", "strokes" ]
tokens
A therapeutic technique for psychological disorders that produces seizures, decreased emotional responses, and even stupor as side effects is **blank**
[ "chemotherapy", "hospitalization", "immunotherapy" ]
lobotomy