Introduction to Psychology and Key Figures

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What school of psychology emphasizes the importance of unconscious motives and conflicts as determinants of human behavior?

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Humanistic psychology
  • Psychoanalysis (correct)
  • Behavioral psychology

Evolutionary psychologists believe that human behaviors like aggressive behavior and mate selection have a basis in:

  • Hereditary influences (correct)
  • Cognitive processes
  • Environmental factors
  • Social learning theory

Which field of psychology focuses on relationships between people and work?

  • Counseling psychology
  • Industrial psychology (correct)
  • Forensic psychology
  • Personality psychology

'Describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling behavior and mental processes' are the key goals of:

<p>Psychology as a whole (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which type of psychologists make technical systems more user-friendly, such as automobile dashboards and computer keyboards?

<p>Human factors psychologists (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Experimental psychologists specialize in studying basic processes related to which of the following?

<p>Emotion, motivation, and thought (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

'Identifying and measuring human traits and determining influences on human thought, process, feelings, and behavior' is the focus of which field of psychology?

<p>Personality psychology (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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