UNDERSTANDING
OF PSYCHOLOGY
(TEST BANK)15TH
EDITION BY
FELDMAN
ROBERT
BEST STUDY GUIDE FOR REVISION ON
PSYCHOLOGY
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ALL CHAPTERS ARE INCLUDED(1-17)
ANSWERS ARE AT THE END OF EACH
CHAPTER
Chapter 1
Student name:
MULTIPLE CHOICE - Choose the one alternative that best
completes the statement or answers the question.
1) Psychology is defined as the
A) intuition-based approach to study human behavior.
B) speculative method to find answers about human
cognition.
C) study of mental disorders and their treatment.
D) scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
2) Akira has declared psychology as his major. He will be
studying
A) internal medicine.
B) behavior and mental processes.
C) mental disorders and their diagnosis and treatment.
D) the disorders of the central nervous system.
3) A single-sentence definition of psychology may be misleading
because
A) it is very difficult to study the mind and behavior
scientifically.
B) psychology is a narrower, more specific field than a
general definition might suggest.
C) psychologists disagree on how broad psychology should
really be.
D) the discipline of psychology really has no core or center.
4) In order to study mind and behavior, psychologists
A) rely on the scientific method.
B) use their intuition.
C) rely on the study of internal medicine.
D) use speculation.
5) In which of the following scenarios is a scientific explanation
being provided to explain a phenomenon?
A) When asked if violent video games have an impact on
players, Dr. Lee replies that there is substantial empirical
evidence to suggest a change in the gamers' behavior.
B) When asked if mood influences social behavior, Dr.
Sessler replies that he believes that it does.
C) When asked if addiction is a disease or a choice, Dr.
Smith replies that he knows many addicts and he feels that
they have a disease.
D) When asked if he can train his mind to not feel physical
pain, Dr. Farnworth replies that he focuses on his breathing
when he feels pain to increase his tolerance for it.
6) Which of the following statements accurately
describes the diverse subfields of psychology?
A) They allow psychologists to explain different types of
behavior using the same techniques and experiments.
B) Though they are individually separate and distinct, they
all share a common goal of understanding behavior.
C) They always lead to an MD (doctor of medicine) degree.
D) They are not related at all other than being considered a
part of psychology.
7) Dr. Alvarez is currently studying how the degeneration of
certain components of nerve cells in the brain leads to Lewy body
disease. Dr. Alvarez's work is most likely to be a part of the
subfield of psychology.
A) evolutionary
B) developmental
C) industrial-organizational
D) behavioral neuroscience
8) Which of the following is the focus of experimental
psychology?
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A) exploring the relationship between psycho-logical factors
and physical ailments or
B) investigating the relationship between people and their
physical environment
C) studying the processes of sensing, perceiving, learning,
and thinking about the world
D) analyzing how people grow and change from the moment
of conception through
9) Which of the following subfields of psychology matches with
its description?
A) Cognitive psychology examines the relationship
between the nervous system and behavior.
B) Developmental psychology examines how people grow
and change from conception through death.
C) Experimental psychology explores the relationship
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