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Great thinkers throughout history have wanted to add to human knowledge and to increase happiness. Like today's psychologists, they wanted to describe behaviour. Contemporary psychologists, however, approach these issues in a different way by relying heavily upon:

A) empirical evidence.
B) anecdotes from personal experience.
C) philosophy.
D) phrenology.

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A psychologist from the cognitive perspective would be likely to note that people are often more aggressive in a crowd than they are on their own.

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Which modern psychological perspective had its origin in Freud's ideas?

Psychologists from the sociocultural perspective would be likely to agree that the symptoms of anxiety often bring hidden rewards, such as being excused from exams.

"I really want to believe that my memory of the day I spent at Disneyland as a preschooler is true, but that doesn't mean that it is true." This example illustrates which of the following critical-thinking guidelines?

Freud likened the human mind to a/an ________ of which only the ________ represent(s) our conscious awareness.

The authors note that ________ trigger(s) creative thinking.

Which movement emerged in the 1960s?

Which modern psychological perspective is concerned with how the environment and experience affect a person's actions?

The authors of our text suggest that students approach psychology as "received wisdom."

Psychologists from the behavioural perspective would be likely to agree that anxiety is due to forbidden, unconscious desires.

A psychologist from the biological perspective would be likely to note that cultures based on herding rather than agriculture tend to train boys to be aggressive.

Which school of thought in psychology evolved into an elaborate theory of personality and method of psychotherapy?

Mark has a strong desire to quit smoking. A psychologist from the biological perspective would try to help by:

Applied psychology is defined as the ability and willingness to assess claims and make judgments on the basis of well-supported reasons and evidence, rather than emotion or anecdote.

According to ________, attempting to grasp the nature of the mind through introspection is like trying to turn up the gas lights in order to see how the darkness looks.

An early approach to scientific psychology called ________ emphasized the purpose of behaviour.

Hippocrates wrote that the heart is the ultimate source of human pleasures, joys, pains, and tears.

Psychologists from the sociocultural perspective would be likely to agree that anxious people often think about the future in distorted ways.

A psychologist from the sociocultural perspective would be likely to note that people are often more aggressive in a crowd than they are on their own.