FALL2009 ANSWER EXAM 1

1. People have always been interested in explaining behavior, but psychology did not become a

science until relatively recently.

2. chemist attempting to determine what elements combine to create different substances

3. behaviorism

4. focus on the ability of organisms to adapt to their environment

5. psychoanalytic theory

6. A parent is using “time out” as a consequence for bad behavior

7. humanistic

8. biological perspective

9. sociocultural

10. correlational study

11. positive correlation

12. they are unable to determine which variable causes the other

13. experiment

14. cause; effect

15. type of TV programming watched

16. random assignment

17. inferential statistics

18. experiment

19. male predicts that one will be more aggressive

20. preconscious

21. unconscious

22. only an id

23. reality; pleasure

24. superego

25. defense mechanism

26. anal

27. inferiority

28. basic anxiety

29. trait

30. extraversion

31. conscientiousness

32. ideographic

33. unconditional positive regard

34. Rorschach; projective

35. the psychoanalytic perspective