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  1. This approach believes that mental processes shape our behavior, and that if behavior needs to be changed, our thoughts need to be changed first.
    1. Sociocultural
    2. Cognitive
    3. Humanism
    4. Functionalism

    Answer: Cognitive


  2. Who advanced Cognitive psychology into a modern day approach?
    1. Sigmund Freud
    2. Jean Piaget
    3. John Watson
    4. William James

    Answer: Jean Piaget


  3. Who are the men associated with the modern approach of Humanism?
    1. Wilhm Wundt and G. Stanley Hall
    2. Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers
    3. Wiliam James and Charles Darwin
    4. John Watson and William James

    Answer: Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers


  4. This approach looks at how genetic contributions, the effects of brain damage, drugs and disease affect behavior.
    1. Evolutionary
    2. Neuroscience
    3. Sociocultural
    4. Evolutionary

    Answer: Neuroscience


  5. In the late 1880s, who authored the approach of functionalism?
    1. Charles Darwin
    2. Jean Piaget
    3. William James
    4. Abraham Maslow

    Answer: William James


  6. Who was the first man to set up a laboratory for the scientific study of behavior?
    1. Wilhem Wundt
    2. Sigmund Freud
    3. John Dewey
    4. B.F. Skinner

    Answer: Wilhem Wundt


  7. This approach states that the adaptation of behavior through genetics has allowed us to survive and thrive.
    1. Sociocultural
    2. Evolutionary
    3. Neuroscience
    4. Humanism

    Answer: Evolutionary


  8. Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers presented this positive approach to the study of behavior.
    1. Sociocultural
    2. Evolutionary
    3. Neuroscience
    4. Humanism

    Answer: Humanism


  9. What is the name of the first formal approach in psychology?
    1. Humanism
    2. Structuralism
    3. Behaviorism
    4. Functionalism

    Answer: Structuralism


  10. Who proposed the psychodynamic approach?
    1. William James
    2. John B. Watson
    3. Carl Rodgers
    4. Sigmund Freud

    Answer: Sigmund Freud


  11. Functionalism was influenced by whose theory of evolution?
    1. Sigmund Freud
    2. Edward Titchener
    3. Albert Bandra
    4. Charles Darwin

    Answer: Charles Darwin


  12. John Watson is known as the founder of which theory?
    1. Structualism
    2. Behaviorism
    3. Functionalism
    4. Humanism

    Answer: Behaviorism


  13. What is the name of the approach states that for humans to survive they must keep changing to fit the environment?
    1. Psychodynamic
    2. Functionalism
    3. Structuralism
    4. Behaviorism

    Answer: Functionalism


  14. Which approach focuses on childhood and unconscious traumas?
    1. Functionalism
    2. Psychodynamic
    3. Behaviorism
    4. Cognitive

    Answer: Psychodynamic


  15. What was the group of German psychologists who began the Cognitive approach called?
    1. Gestalt Psychologists
    2. Maslow Men
    3. Jean's Boys
    4. Freud Followers

    Answer: Gestalt Psychologists


  16. Which approach focuses on how we think, interpret, organize, store and retrieve information?
    1. Evolutionary
    2. Cognitive
    3. Neuroscience
    4. Sociocultural

    Answer: Cognitive


  17. This approach believes that people strive to be the best they can be or “self-actualized?”
    1. Functionalism
    2. Neuroscience
    3. Humanism
    4. Behaviorism

    Answer: Humanism


  18. An example of which theory is the statement: If you make an A on a test, the grade A is a reward?
    1. Functionalism
    2. Structuralism
    3. Psychodynamic
    4. Behaviorism

    Answer: Behaviorism


  19. This approach looks to see how behavior varies due to differences in culture, age, gender and social expectations or cultural norms.
    1. Sociocultural
    2. Humanism
    3. Functionalism
    4. Structuralism

    Answer: Sociocultural


  20. Which approach looks at people as basically healthy, happy and in control of their behavior as a product of free will?
    1. Sociocultural
    2. Evolutionary
    3. Behaviorism
    4. Humanism

    Answer: Humanism

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