Imagine that you are attending a lecture by a guest speaker who describes a theory and then says, Let's now look at the empirical evidence. Which of the following would most likely be the speaker's next sentence?
a. Other psychologists have objected to my approach on the following theoretical grounds.
b. We conducted an experiment to test this hypothesis.
c. The theorists who belonged to the empirical school rejected the behaviorist tradition, for the following reasons.
d. By combining both the cognitive approach and the psychodynamic approach, we can devise a new theoretical approach to the problem.
Question 2According to the introductory chapter in your textbook, the influence of cognitive psychology
a. has been relatively weak, both within psychology and in other disciplines.
b. has been limited primarily to areas related to education.
c. has not yet reached applied areas of psychology.
d. has extended to other disciplines, such as neurology.
Question 3Chapter 1 of your Cognition textbook discusses the status of cognitive psychology. According to this discussion, the cognitive approach
a. primarily emphasizes our unconscious thoughts.
b. can explain a major part of your daily experiences.
c. is prominent within social psychology, but it has not yet been applied to biological areas of psychology.
d. has had surprisingly little connection with clinical psychology.
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