AP PSYCHOLOGY UNIT 1: HISTORY & APPROACHES

REVIEW QUESTIONS

WHOLE CLASS REVIEW

QUESTION #1:You are at a lecture about the history of psychology and the speaker states that Wilhelm Wundt’s theory of structuralism was the first scientific psychological theory. On what historical fact might the speaker be basing her or his argument?

a) Wundt was internationally known at the time, and this lent credence to his theory in the scientific community.

b) Wundt studied under Ivan Pavlov for his graduate training, and Pavlov required scientific methods to be used.

c) Structuralism was based on the results of his introspection experiments, so it is, at least in part, empirical.

d) Structuralism was based on careful anecdotes gathered from Wundt’s extensive clinical career.

e) Wundt was the first person to study psychology in an academic setting.

QUESTION #2:Sigmund Freud’s theory of the unconscious mind

a) Was revolutionary because it was the first comprehensive explanation of human thought and behavior.

b) Resulted from discoveries about the human brain obtained by cadaver dissection.

c) Is outdated and has no relevance for modern psychology.

d) Focused entirely on human males’ sex drive.

e) Depends on the idea that humans can remember events but not be consciously aware of the memory.

QUESTION #3:

Dr. Marco explains to a client that his feelings of hostility toward a coworker are most likely caused by the way the client interprets the coworker’s actions and the way he thinks that people should behave at work. Dr. Marco is most likely working from what perspective?

a) Behavioral

b) Cognitive

c) Psychoanalytic

d) Humanist

e) Social-cultural

ANSWER KEY TO WHOLE CLASS REVIEW

1. C

2. E

3. B

PAIR PARTNER REVIEW

QUESTION #4:

Which of the following psychologists was part of the Gestalt group of psychologists?

a) Carl Rogers

b) Wilhelm Wundt

c) B.F. Skinner

d) John Watson

e) Max Wertheimer

QUESTION #5:

Symbolic dream analysis might be an important research technique to a psychologist from which of the following perspectives?

a) Behaviorist

b) Biopsychologist

c) Psychoanalytic

d) Evolutionary

e) Structuralist

QUESTION #6:

A therapist who says that she uses whatever psychological perspective “works best” for each patient might be best described as…

a) Social-cultural

b) Humanist

c) Eclectic

d) Psychoanalytic

e) Functionist

ANSWER KEY TO PAIR PARTNER REVIEW

4. E

5. C

6. C

INDIVIDUAL REVIEW QUESTIONS

QUESTION #7:

Psychologists who emphasize the role of mental processes in explaining behavior take a(n) ____________________ approach.

a) Evolutionary

b) Biological

c) Cognitive

d) Deterministic

e) None of these

QUESTION #8:

An industrial/organizational psychologist would be most interested in which of the following questions?

a)How can we promote a stop-smoking campaign?

b) What type of management style would generate the highest productivity?

c) What mental steps are involved in perception and decision making?

d) How do social skills evolve from the preschool years through old age?

e) None of these

QUESTION #9:

An instructor tells you that the evolutionary approach best characterizes her viewpoint. Which of the following statements is she most likely to agree with?

a) Each person learns what behaviors are best.

b) Over generations, maladaptive behaviors will become less and less common in a species.

c) People do what makes them feel good.

d) We inherit only adaptive behaviors.

e) None of these

QUESTION #10:

Maria watches people to discover what unwritten rules for behavior they are following. Maria sees that people tend not to sit next to another person on the bus unless empty seats are limited. Maria’s interests are most like those of psychologists in the ________________ subfield.

a) Clinical

b) Developmental

c) Personality

d) Social

e) None of these

ANSWER KEY TO THE INDIVIDUAL REVIEW QUESTIONS

7. C

8. B

9. B

10. D