Psychology Quiz on Behavior and Mental Processes

Definition of Psychology

• Psychology is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.

Nature-Nurture Debate

• The debate about human psychology that suggests human capacities are either inborn or acquired is called the nature-nurture debate.

Types of Psychologists

• A biological psychologist would be involved in testing a new drug designed to treat the early stages of memory loss from Alzheimer's disease on animals.
• A clinical psychologist is the field of psychology to which the greatest number of psychologists belong.

Psychoanalytic Perspective

• The psychoanalytic perspective suggests that behaviors may be caused by unconscious processes.

Adaptation to Environment

• Being able to adapt to changes in the environment is referred to as survival of the fittest.

Research Methods

• Introspection is a research method where participants describe their experiences, such as describing their experience of a flash of light.
• A cognitive psychologist would be interested in studying the effectiveness of problem-solving strategies for solving geometry proofs.

Behavioral Perspective

• According to the behavioral perspective, an individual's behavior is controlled by stimuli in the environment.

Engineering Psychology

• An engineering psychologist, like Samantha, uses data on human performance to design products, such as keyboards, for minimum errors.

Test your knowledge of Psychology with questions related to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Explore concepts like inborn versus acquired human capacities and different analyses of human psychology.