Why Did You Choose a Career in Psychology

							AP Exam Review: Why Did You Choose a Career in Psychology?


Explain how the following replies apply to the psychologist.




 
 1. “I was in a strange situation.”     Mary Ainsworth




2. “I didn’t think I could do anything else.”        Gordon Allport




3. “Everyone else was doing it.”         Solomon Asch




 4. “I saw everyone else doing it.” Albert Bandura




 5. “It was a rational decision.”     Aaron Beck




 6. “It challenged my intelligence.”      Alfred Binet




7. “I can’t say.”    Paul Broca




 8. “The ability was innate.”    Noam Chomsky




 9.   “I cannot tell a lie: it was an emotional decision.”       Paul Ekman




 10. “It was a rational decision.”      Albert Ellis




 11. “I was going through a stage.”      Erik Erikson




 12. “It’s my parent’s fault.”    Sigmund Freud




 13. “It made the best use of all my intelligences.”        Howard Gardner




14. “I liked to monkey around.”      Harry Harlow

15. ”It was a textbook emotional decision.”        William James




 16. “It was an unconscious decision.”       Carl Jung




17. “It seemed like the right thing to do.”        Lawrence Kohlberg




18. “I can’t remember exactly why.” Elizabeth Loftus




 19. “I naturally followed others.”    Konrad Lorenz




20. "I could not imagine a higher pursuit.”        Abraham Maslow




21. "The experimenter made me do it" -- Stanley Milgram




 22. "It made my mouth water." Ivan Pavlov




 23. “A child could do it.”    Jean Piaget




24. “It’s a highly regarded profession.”        Carl Rogers




 25. "My heart thumped and psychology seemed like a good career choice,
and then I felt happy with my decision.”    Stanley Schacter




 26. ”I felt helpless to choose anything else.”       Martin Seligman




 27. “Psychology was a GAS.”    Hans Selye




 28. “It’s a rewarding career.”    B.F. Skinner




29. “I liked its structure.”     Edward Titchener

 30. “It was a classic, conditioned response.”     John B. Watson




31. “I cannot understand the question.”      Carl Wernicke




32. “No one else was studying it.”   Wilhelm Wundt




 33. ”It was the power of the situation.”     Philip Zimbardo