A focus on the different marriage rituals practiced by members of different ethnic groups is most relevant to the _____ perspective.

Social-Cultural

A researcher who focuses on links between the brain and the mind is a _____ psychologist.

Biological

The leader of a self-help group has asked you to recommend an approach to psychology that emphasizes personal growth and people's need for love and acceptance. Which branch of psychology would you recommend for this group:

Humanistic

Professor Wolfowitz is interested in why some phobias are more common than other phobias. He believes that some phobias are more easily acquired because they have survival value. He contends that a predisposition to fear snakes is part of our genetic heritage because some snakes are life threatening. Professor Wolfowitz's views coincide with the _____ perspective.

Evolutionary

Which of the following is NOT an example of basic research?

Use of the principles of classical conditioning to create effective behavioral therapy techniques for the treatment of phobias.

Watson is to behaviorism as Rogers is to _____ psychology:

Humanistic

Dr. Garrett has been researching the ramifications of stress on the health of individuals experiencing chronic stress. He has done research on the cultural differences in stress, the history of stress and stress-related health issues in families, learned responses to stress, and the variations in the types of emotional expression in males and females. The research approach Dr. Garret is taking as he researches stress is the _____.

biopsychosocial approach

You are visiting a psychology research lab. The researchers ask 5-year-old children to do a puzzle and then explain how they solved it. The researchers tell you that they will compare the 5-year-old children's abilities and explanations to those of 8-year-old children. You are observing research conducted by _____ psychologists.

Developmental

Is alcohol abuse biologically determined or culturally influenced? This question is most relevant to the issue of:

Nature-nurture

In speech class you will argue in favor of the nature position in the nature versus nurture debate. Your research suggests that _____ would support your argument.

Charles Darwin

Researchers continue to debate the origin of knowledge. Some believe that we are born with certain types of knowledge, while others believe that knowledge is gained through experience. Professor Risotto believes that children learn language through experiences. This approach is most similar to the ideas of:

Aristotle

Researchers today can use technology such as fMRI scans to measure brain activity. Some researchers use the introspection technique with their subjects while obtaining the scans, which is similar to the methodology used by the early psychologist _____.

Tictchener

Your cousin Rhonda is a 32-year-old computer programmer who has been hoarding old computers and other things she has purchased in garage sales. On a visit to Rhonda's home you notice that her home is completely filled with these things to a point that it is very difficult to move about the house. Lately, you have become really concerned because Rhonda has refused to leave her home for fear of someone taking or touching her things. Your best suggestion for Rhonda would be to seek treatment with a(n):

Clinical

Titchener is to _____ as Freud is to psychoanalysis.

Structuralism

You are visiting the research lab of Professor Hun who has been studying the effects of different levels of oxytocin on attachment behaviors in male and female rhesus monkeys. You assume that Professor Hun is most likely a _____ psychologist.

Biological