1. Why is it is important to have different theoretical approaches in psychology?
A. What is true about the human mind depends on how we view the human mind.
B. One of the many approaches eventually will be found to be better than the rest.
C. Each approach focuses on a different set of causes, and behavior has many causes.
D. all the aboves
2. The most important assumption of social psychologists is that
A. social situations determine cognitions, emotions, and behavior.
B. personality is not an important cause of any behavior or mental events.
C. biological factors and unconscious processes have little effect on behavior.
D. none of the above
3. Social psychologists are like behaviorists in which of the following ways?
A. Like behaviorists, social psychologists adopt an internal perspective.
B. Like behaviorists, social psychologists adopt an external perspective.
C. Like behaviorists, social psychologists adopt a stimulus-response perspective.
D. Like behaviorists, social psychologists adopt an associationist perspective.
4. Social psychologists are like personality psychologists in which of the following ways?
A. Like personality psychologists, social psychologists attempt to find the causes of behaviors.
B. Like personality psychologists, social psychologists attempt to discover the effects of traits.
C. Like personality psychologists, social psychologists attempt to understand the role of learning.
D. Like personality psychologists, social psychologists attempt to measure dispositions.
5. In our everyday lives, the context of social situations determines our behavior by providing information about the
A. stimuli needed to respond flexibly.
B. roles we are to assume in that situation.
C. internal factors causing our behaviors.
D. external factors causing our behaviors.
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