John Watson believed that psychology should only involve the study of _________
a) behavior
b) the mind
c) the brain
d) consciousness
ANS: A, He thought the study of observable behavior was the most scientific approach to psychology.
You might also like to view...
An academic clinical psychologist uses Beck's Depression Inventory, a validated scale with scores ranging from 0 to 63, with higher scores indicating greater levels of depression, to measure depression levels in the population of 1,000 incoming freshmen students. She creates a frequency distribution of her findings. What should be displayed on the vertical axis?
A) the number of times each possible score occurred B) each possible score C) the mean of the 1,000 scores D) the categorical labels "Not Depressed" and "Depressed"
Your sister did everything that she could to have a healthy pregnancy, but her baby was born at 33 weeks and was "small for date." She is not sure what that means. What would you tell her? This means that her baby was ____
a. born weighing less than was expected for her gestational age b. born prematurely c. very short d. lucky not to be resuscitated at birth
When your sensory system processes a sound stimulus by detecting simple or basic components of that stimulus (such as changes in pitch or volume) and then assembles those components to understand its meaning (such as your friend calling your name), that is bottom-up processing.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
The most common form of psychosis is
a. paranoid psychosis. b. schizophrenia. c. bipolar disorder. d. multiple personalities.