Psychologists employ a variety of tools and methods to study human behaviour which of the following methods to psychologists rely on to make systematic observations and draw conclusions about human behaviour.

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1. In order to summarize or organize a series of observations in some meaningful way, psychologists may develop

   A. hypotheses
   B. experiments
   C. surveys
   D. theories

2. One difference between sociology and psychologists is that psychologist study:

   A. Behavior in individuals
   B. biological processes more than psychological processes
   C. Religion, philosophy and epistemology
   D. Animal behavior rather than group behavior

3. Developmental psychologists study the effects of __________ on behavior.

   A. marketing
   B. learning disabilities
   C. aging
   D. robotics

4. Which of the following school of thought would be most likely to reject the method introspection to study human experience?

   A. Behaviorism
   B. Psychoanalysis
   C. Structuralism
   D. Functionalism

5. Which one set of the following is the correct sequence of vicarious learning process meant of behaviour-modelling practices?

   A. Motivation, motoric production, relention, attention
   B. Attention, motoric production, retention, motivation
   C. Attention, retention, motoric production, motivation
   D. Retention, attention, motivation, motoric production

6. Which early school of psychology relied on introspection as a systematic way of gathering information?

   A. Gestalt
   B. Psychoanalysis
   C. Functionalism
   D. Structuralism

7. Psychologists have concluded that long-term memories fall into. the following two categories?

   A. fact memory and mnemonic
   B. procedural memory and fact memory
   C. semantic memory and fact memory
   D. semantic memory and reintegration memory

8. Which of the following broad domains can be studied by psychologists?

   A. Developmental processes
   B. Biological bases of behaviour
   C. Social basesof behaviour
   D. Cognitive and affective processes
   E. psychologists can study all of these domains

9. the human information-processing approach and the connectionist approach disagree with each other about how information is processed. How does the connectionist approachdiffer from the human information-processing approach?

   A. Connectionists can study the brain as it naturally occurs in real life situations
   B. Connectionists assume cognitive systems function as a whole versus by single components
   C. Connectionists support the idea of a centeral processor of control unit
   D. Connectionists assume parallel versus serial processing of information
   E. b and d

10. Psychiatrists differ from psychologists in that psychiatrists: ______________?

    A. are physicians with a specialization in abnormal behavior and psychotherapy
    B. are extensively trained in the theories and techniques of sigmund Freud
    C. are generally more eclectic than psychologists
    D. have a masters or Ph.D degree