Structuralists tended to ask, "What are the pieces that make up thinking and experience?" In contrast,__________tended to ask, "How do behavior and mental processes help people adapt to the requirements of their lives?"

A) cognitive psychologists
B) behaviorists
C) functionalists
D) psychoanalysts
E) Select


C

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Miss Roberto is concerned that Talia and Emily avoid playing with Michael because he is African American. Which strategy would best enable her to assess any unconscious dislike these two students feel toward Michael?

a. Ask them why they don't want to play with him. b. Measure the girls' brain activity when they are forced to play with Michael. c. Administer an IAT to examine the girls' racial attitudes. d. Administer a self-report questionnaire examining the girls' racial attitudes.

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It is easier to remember the names of seven people you just met at a party than it is to remember their addresses (even if both pieces of information were given to you at the same time), because there is a(n)________.

A. inverse relationship between the size of the chunks in short-term memory and their retention B. inverse relationship between the number of items in the sensory registers and their retention C. direct relationship between the size of the chunks in short-term memory and their retention D. direct relationship between the size of the chunks in the sensory registers and their retention

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Who among the following is one of the leaders of the humanist movement in psychology?

a. Sigmund Freud b. Carl Jung c. Raymond Cattell d. Carl Rogers

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Older siblings tend to:

a. be nurturing of their younger siblings. c. be role models for their younger siblings. b. be dominant over their younger siblings. d. all of these

Psychology