Question 1

Describe the humanistic,sociocultural,and cognitive perspectives.Mention which level of analysis (biological,psychological,or environmental)the perspective tends to utilize.Note any major similarities or differences between the perspectives.

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Question 2

Discuss Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and the process of natural selection.Which psychological perspective is evolutionary theory associated with? Describe how evolutionary theory has continued to "evolve" in the modern approaches of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.

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Question 3

Outline five of the major areas of specialization within psychology specifying the area of focus for each of these areas.Also,briefly outline the typical level of training for a psychologist and state how the training of psychologists and psychiatrists differ.

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Question 4

Define hysteria and repression and discuss how they relate to Freud's conception of the mind.

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Question 5

Describe the case of Charles Whitman.Briefly mention what happened and some of the relevant details of the tragedy.Using each of the three levels of analysis (biological,psychological,and environmental),interpret and explain why this terrible incident may have happened.

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Question 6

Select any three of the six themes that are the foundation of psychology and explain their meaning.

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Question 7

Describe and summarize the results of the Robbers Cave experiment and Elliot Aronson's jigsaw program.Be sure to classify each study as either basic or applied research and discuss how the two studies are related to one another.

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Question 8

The text specifies three levels of analysis and six perspectives on behaviour.Discuss how the six difference perspectives can be related to these three levels of analysis.

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Question 9

predominant foci and methods of discovery.

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Quiz 1: Psychology: the Science of Behaviour