Westen: Psychology Australian & New Zealand Edition

Chapter 01 - Multiple Choice Quiz

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According to Erikson (1963), psychologists must practice 'triple bookkeeping' which means they:

A.	should pay attention to theory, application, and education in treating people

B.	must focus on the biological basis for human suffering

C.	must focus on biological, psychological and social factors to understand the individual

D.	must record time of treatment, number of sessions and number of symptoms

Biopsychology or behavioural neuroscience is the study of:

A.	human thoughts, feelings and fears

B.	memory, emotion, and stress

C.	electrical and chemical processes underlying mental events

D.	language and memory

Which of the following clarified the link between brain and behaviour?

A.	increases in drug use

B.	changes in behaviour after closed head injury

C.	developmental studies of animals

D.	severe emotional trauma results in anorexia nervosa

The issue of whether our behaviour is controlled by outside forces or free choice:

A.	is of no importance to psychology

B.	has long been settled in favour of free will

C.	remains a controversy in psychology

D.	has long been settled in favour of determinism

According to Kuhn, a paradigm is:

A.	a system of theoretical assumptions used by scientists to make sense of their area

B.	the way things really are

C.	the way things ought to be

D.	none of the above

One of the weaknesses of psychodynamic psychology in the past:

A.	was the dominance of Freud

B.	related to the nature of the definition of the Id

C.	involved the over-use of clinical data

D.	was the failure to use drug therapies

The most important legacy of the psychodynamic perspective is its focus on:

dreams

behaviour

genetics

D.	the unconscious

Behaviourists see all important behaviours as:

A.	genetically pre-programmed

B.	largely acquired by learning

C.	the result of an interaction between the mind and the body

D.	generated from social interaction

The term tabula rasa means:

A.	high table

B.	red tablet

C.	raised letters

D.	blank slate

10.

According to the humanistic perspective:

A.	human actions reflect how the individual understands and experiences themselves in the world

B.	human action reflects deep-seated ambition

C.	human action is less important than human beliefs

D.	none of the above.

11.

Humanistic psychologists modify behaviour by:

A.	disclosing their own experiences to the client

B.	assuming responsibility for the client's decision-making

C.	helping the client to consciously and deliberately set goals

D.	through the use of introspection

12.

Cognitive psychologists study:

A.	overt behaviour

B.	mental elements

thoughts

D.	none of the above

13.

Cognitive psychologists:

A.	infer mental processes from experimental data

B.	create data from mental processes

C.	argue that mental events are independent of experience

D.	none of the above

14.

Most psychological processes seem to represent the:

A.	results of experience alone

B.	effects of genetics alone

C.	interaction of genetics and experience

D.	none of the above

15.

Behavioural genetics examines the:

A.	genetic and environmental bases of individual differences

B.	the genome

C.	environmental bases of social behaviour

D.	none of the above.

16.

Ethology studies:

A.	social ethics

B.	the evolution of animal behaviour

C.	the evolution of human behaviour

D.	the evolution of ethos.

17.

Natural selection, according to the principle of inclusive fitness, favours:

A.	near neighbours

B.	distant in-laws

C.	in-laws who live close by

D.	animals who are most concerned with close relatives

18.

You wake up in the middle of the night to find your home in flames. You, your parents, your sister and a cousin are trapped on the second floor. You see a way out, but only have time to show one other person. The principle of inclusive fitness suggests you will save:

A.	your mother

B.	your father

C.	your cousin

D.	your sister

19.

The fact that infidelity, or suspicion of infidelity, is a major cause of spouse battering by men:

A.	supports the evolutionary perspective

B.	requires the training of more psychologists

C.	supports the psychodynamic perspective

D.	all of the above

20.

The methods of evolutionary psychology are primarily:

A.	experimental

B.	observational

deductive

inductive

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