6. Veronica’s research focuses on optimism and the factors that lead to living a balanced and happy lifestyle. Veronica has dedicated her research to the study of ___________ psychology.
convergent
abnormal
positive
dialectical
7. Which approach emphasises mechanisms through which people receive, store, retrieve and otherwise process information
Cognitive
Behavioural
Humanistic
Biological
Evolutionary
8. Which type of psychologists study the characteristics that make individuals similar or different from one another?
Biological psychologists
Personality psychologists
School psychologists
Cognitive psychologists
9. Which type of psychologists study methods by which instructors teach and students learn, and who apply their results to improving those methods?
Personality psychologists
Educational psychologists
Biological psychologists
School psychologists
10. Which school of thought aims to explain personality and behaviour; to develop techniques for treating mental disorders
Structuralism
Psychoanalysis
Functionalism
Gestalt psychology
Behaviourism
11. Which perspective emphasises the uniqueness of the individual and focuses on the person's immediate experience
Humanistic
Behaviourist
Psychodynamic
Cognitive
Evolutionary
12. Which perspective suggests that most psychological processes that guide behaviour are unconscious
Humanistic
Cognitive
Psychodynamic
Evolutionary
Behaviourist
13. Rashma teaches a parent training workshop and she advocates that parents get to know the uniqueness of their children. She stresses that we can’t see children’s points of view because we don’t know how they perceive the world and that children are innatel
psychoanalytic
behavioural
humanistic
cognitive
14. Which type of psychologists study the mental processes underlying judgement, decision making, problem solving, imagining and other aspects of human though or cognition
Cognitive psychologists
Developmental psychologists
Biological psychologists
Personality psychologists
15. Dr Bothwell’s research finds a correlation between frequency of touching another person during conversations and perceived attractiveness of the person doing the touching. You would most likely find Dr Bothwell’s work reported in a journal that publishes
personality
social
biological
developmental
16. Which school of thought aims to describe the organisation of mental processes: 'the whole is different from the sum of its parts'
Functionalism
Behaviourism
Gestalt psychology
Psychoanalysis
Structuralism
17. Which school of though aims to study conscious experience and its structure
Structuralism
Functionalism
Psychoanalysis
Gestalt psychology
Behaviourism
18. Which approach emphasises activity of the nervous system, especially of the brain; the action of hormones and other chemical; and genetics
Behavioural
Cognitive
Evolutionary
Biological
Humanistic
19. The group of psychologists who focused on the whole of consciousness rather than its component parts were the:
behaviourists
Gestalt psychologists
structuralists
functionalists
20. Which perspective focuses on the relationship between environmental events (stimuli) and responses to them
